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Several #ColumbiaUniversity student #journalists are #suspended after covering #protests (while wearing #press ID) in the main library.
Their access to campus is blocked, & they can't take final exams.
Columbia's acting president is a fmr ABC journo.
#law #Trump #Universities #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #censorship #Dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
columbiaspectator.com/news/202…
Barnard suspends WKCR and Spectator reporters who covered Butler Library protest
Updated May 9 at 12:24 p.m.Columbia Daily Spectator
≧40–50 #students, their hands cuffed w/plastic zip-ties, were seen being loaded into #NYPD vans & buses outside #ButlerLibrary as officers swept through 6 six-story bldg to round up other #protesters who refused to leave.
#Police arrived on campus in force at the request of #Columbia ofcls who said the student demonstrators occupying the library's 2nd-floor main reading room were engaged in trespassing.
#law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #Palestinians #Israel #Gaza #war
Videos & photos on social media showed #protesters, most wearing masks [given the givens, wouldn’t you?], standing on tables, beating drums & unfurling banners saying "Strike For Gaza" & "Liberated Zone" beneath the chandeliers of the Lawrence A. Wein Reading Room.
#Trump had lashed out at #Columbia over pro-#Palestinian #protests on campus last year, saying they were *#antisemitic* & showed a failure to protect Jewish students.
#law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #Israel #Gaza
#Student #protesters, including many #Jewish organizers, counter that #Trump & *conservative* politicians who are strongly pro-#Israel are unfairly conflating pro-#Palestinian #protests & #antisemitism.
[yup]#Columbia's board of trustees has been *negotiating* w/the Trump admin, which announced in March that it had canceled hundreds of millions in #grants to the #university for #scientific #research.
#law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #Palestinians #Israel #Gaza #war
The #university has said it has worked to combat #antisemitism & other #prejudice on its campus while seeking to fend off accusations from #CivilRights groups that it was giving in to #Trump government intrusions on #AcademicFreedom.
#Columbia #University said late on Wed that it had requested #NYPD assistance "in securing the building," & that 2 of its public safety ofcls were hurt in the standoff.
#law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #Palestinians #Israel #Gaza #war
With further entry to the library barred, a growing crowd of #demonstrators outside the building moved to the streets just beyond the campus gates.
One #student org representing the #protesters said on social media that school security had assaulted demonstrators & acknowledged that some activists had refused to show their IDs to ofcls.
#democracy #dissent #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #ColumbiaUniversity #Palestinians #Israel #Gaza #war
#Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a collection of #student groups, recirculated long-standing demands on social media on Wednesday for the #university to no longer invest its $14.8B #endowment in #weapons makers & other companies that support #Israel's #military #occupation of #Palestinian territories.
On Monday, pro-Palestinian #protesters occupied a University of #Washington bldg, demanding the school cut ties w/ #Boeing over its contracts w/the #IDF.
The #university said 34 #protesters were #arrested, & charges of trespassing, property destruction & disorderly conduct were referred to prosecutors.
On Wed, it said the 21 #students who were among those arrested have been #suspended & #banned from all of the school's campuses.
#Columbia was at the forefront of a pro-#Palestinian & anti-war student #protest movement that swept across US campuses last year over #Israel's war in #Gaza, which began in 2023.
#Trump, a [purely self-interested] #Republican, is also trying to #deport some pro-Palestinian #international #students at #US #schools, saying their presence could *harm* US #ForeignPolicy interests [utter crap].
The #protesters in the library also demanded the release of #MahmoudKhalil, a #Palestinian activist & #Columbia graduate student who remains in a Louisiana immigrant #jail after he was among the first to be #arrested for #deportation.
Dozens of #students arrested in pro-#Palestinian #protest at #ColumbiaUniversity
#Police #arrested dozens of #Columbia students who seized part of the school's main library on Wednesday in one of the biggest pro-Palestinian #demonstrations on campus since last year's wave of protests against #Israel's #war in #Gaza.
#democracy #dissent #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest
reuters.com/world/us/dozens-pr…
#NPR suggests that #Trump might be considered "a protector of the #FirstAmendment," because people who agree with the Trump "feel more free today to express views without fear of a backlash."
Feeling like it's safe to agree with the government has never been a test of free speech, @npr .
fair.org/home/hey-npr-free-spe…
Hey NPR, Free Speech Isn’t Just a Vibe
NPR offers only two possibilities: Trump is increasing free speech, or censorship is just a swinging pendulum whose victims change as administrations change.FAIR
2 #professors from #Rutgers University in #NJ went out on a limb to write a “mutual defense compact” for #BigTen schools.
The professors—1 teaches chemistry in Camden, the other psychology in Newark—said they were frustrated by #Trump’s abrupt cuts to #research #funding & its efforts to dictate #policy on some campuses.
They were also troubled by the lack of a unified response by #university leaders.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #HigherEducation
nytimes.com/2025/04/30/nyregio…
This State University Has a Plan to Take on Trump
Two professors from Rutgers University in New Jersey went out on a limb to write a “mutual defense compact” for Big Ten schools. Their effort is gaining steam.Tracey Tully (The New York Times)
Madness #AmericanAutocracy
‘Vaguely Threatening’: #Trump Federal Prosecutor #EdMartin Queries Leading #Medical Journal
The New England Journal of Medicine [#NEJM] received a letter suggesting that it was biased & compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter.
#law #censorship #FirstAmendment #Constitution #democracy #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #tyranny #dictatorship #AntiIntellectualism #science #medicine
nytimes.com/2025/04/25/health/…
‘Vaguely Threatening’: Federal Prosecutor Queries Leading Medical Journal
The New England Journal of Medicine received a letter suggesting that it was biased and compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter.Teddy Rosenbluth (The New York Times)
