We begin Day 2 of the Columbia Encampment with police (the Strategic Response Group) violently arresting at least 5 of our courageous comrades outside of the campus gates, who had weathered the rain and slept on the streets in solidarity with us through the night.

Today is a new day, and we ask our community members to ‼️ SHOW UP IN DROVES ‼️ at Columbia to continue keeping each other safe! Like the cowards they are, the pigs waited until early morning to attempt to detain us.

Please spread the word about this Telegram (https://t.me/cuadencampment) on Instagram, Twitter, Signal, etc. to ensure we have the widest reach for continued calls for support. Numbers truly do matter— a critical mass is what we need to maintain, both inside and outside campus.

🚨ALL OUT TO COLUMBIA NOW🚨

About an hour ago, NYPD violently arrested 5 protestors outside the gates of Columbia standing with the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. The rest of the protestors are still there and are asking for others to join and keep the presence both in and outside of the gates powerful‼️

🚨EMERGENCY RALLY TODAY WE NEED YOU ALL THERE THIS IS THE TIME 🚨 SEE YOU AT 3:30 TODAY TODAY🚨YALLA BRING UR FRIENDS GET UP🚨 SHARE WITH EVERYONE YOU KNOW🚨

Some of the lead organizers of the encampment, fierce young undergraduate students at Barnard, have now been informed that they are hereby suspended by the administration. And they are STAYING PUT.

Continue joining us to rally around our comrades as they fight for justice! Divest NOW!

🌱 Palestine is everywhere reports:

🎥🗞️ Some of the lead organizers of the encampment, fierce young undergraduate students at Barnard, have now been informed that they are hereby suspended by the administration. And they are STAYING PUT.

Continue joining us to rally around our comrades as they fight for justice! Divest NOW!
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Stay tuned for action items on supporting suspended students.

📍From inside the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University

💚🤍🖤❤️ LABOR 4 THE COLUMBIA GAZA ENCAMPMENT 💚🤍🖤❤️

Join a labor solidarity contingent TODAY at 5 pm at the Columbia gates at 116th Street and Broadway. For over 24 hours, Columbia students and allies have stood strong against university and NYPD repression in their demand to end Columbia’s complicity in the genocide against the Palestinian people. Let’s stand with the Gaza Solidarity Encampment and show the Columbia administration that we will not stop UNTIL PALESTINE IS FREE 🍉 Bring union gear. Mask up. Spread widely among your union comrades 🌹

💥🚨 12:34pm: [EMERGENCY ENCAMPMENT PICKET CALL] 💥🚨

Sources have shared that NYPD are preparing to sweep the encampment. Police busses have amassed on the street and we have reason to believe they are about to put them to use.

COLUMBIA AFFILIATES, INCLUDING STUDENTS, ALUM, FACULTY, AND STAFF: Walk out of class, cancel class, walk out of the libraries, walk out of the dorms, walk out of the halls, walk out of work, and RALLY to help protect the encampment! Join the picket on the perimeter, and show them once more what we can do when we stand united!

‼️🚨 ALERT 🚨‼️

Police equipped with riot gear have entered the encampment and instructed students to disperse. CONTINUE SHOWING UP!

The vicious, shameful, and undignified president of Columbia University, Minouche Shafik, has sent an email declaring the imminent: NYPD has been authorized to sweep the encampment and engage in mass arrests. Arrests are now underway. We ask that those who are willing to remain stay in support and witness.

🚨NYPD CONDUCTING MASS ARRESTS AT THE GAZA SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT🚨

THE NYPD, LED BY EDWARD CABAN, KAZ DAUGHTRY AND JOHN CHELL, HAVE RAIDED AND ARE SWEEPING THE GAZA SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY! THEY HAVE MASS ARRESTED STUDENTS AS WELL AS LEGAL OBSERVERS! ALL OUT TO 114th & AMSTERDAM RIGHT NOW‼️🇵🇸

If you cannot join until later, go straight to 1 Police Plaza for jail support!