PROTESTERS: We are moving to the other lawn! Please direct comrades surrounding you.

Our action is going strong, and our people are keeping warm and building community together on campus tonight. We will not be deterred.

Our numbers remain strong and we need to keep them strong throughout the night. Please continue to show up! ✊🏽🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Imagine this: the chief 🐷 himself distances the NYPD from the arbitrary decision-making process that led to the arrest of dozens of student protesters. What does this say about Minouche Shafik and the Columbia administration? That they are willing enemies of truth and justice and know exactly what they are doing.

But we persist! Join us! 🇵🇸

COLUMBIA COLLEGE STUDENTS: THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO VOTE YES ✔️ TO THE REFERENDUM. IF YOU HAVEN’T, PLEASE DO SO NOW. THE BALLOT IS IN YOUR EMAIL INBOX 📥.

DAY 3 HAS BEGUN

✌️VICTORY ✌️

Despite the Gaza Solidarity Encampment being violently swept by the NYPD yesterday, students on Columbia’s campus are still going strong. They have taken another lawn, officially marking three days of liberated zones, steadfast until the demand of FULL DIVESTMENT is met. JOIN US IN THIS HISTORIC FIGHT!

We will not stand for Columbia’s direct complicity in genocide and the targeting and arrest of its own students!

🚨 We need bodies, bodies, bodies! Come to Columbia University as soon as you can! Join us on the lawn or at the gates! If possible, bring food, warm clothes, blankets, and hand warmers! ☕️ 🧥🥞

🇵🇸 🇵🇸 We will not back down!

https://www.instagram.com/p/C58hVv1O46X

Hundreds upon hundreds of Columbia students, faculty, staff, and community members, representing a historic convergence of youth and elders from across our movements, have taken the west lawn. Out of it has sprung a fierce, beautiful display of life and community. We are chanting, singing, teaching, watching, praying, reading, debating, and breaking bread.

On night 3 and beyond, we are here to stay. Columbia will divest from Zionism. We will accept nothing less! ✊🏽

Today, on day 4, we are welcoming the many admitted students visiting Columbia’s campus for Admitted Students Day by REDIRECTING THEIR ATTENTION TO OUR MOVEMENT & BROADCASTING COLUMBIA’S COMPLICITY. JOIN US AT THE PEOPLE’S LAWN AND OUTSIDE THE GATES! 🇵🇸

For those without Columbia access, please join our comrades at 115th and Broadway ASAP! We need numbers URGENTLY! ⚡️⚡️⚡️

DAY 5: GET READY TO BE LOUD 📢📢📢 OUR ADMITTED STUDENTS ARE HERE!!! JOIN US AT THE LAWNS NOW.

DAY 6: On this beautiful, sunny, historic day, Columbia College has successfully passed ALL 3 divestment resolutions with votes from 40.26% of all eligible voters. The resolution breakdowns are as follows:

Financial Divestment:
76.55% in favor (1541)
13.66% abstain (275)
9.79% no (197)

Cancellation of Tel Aviv Global Center:
68.36% in favor (1376)
18.68% abstain (376)
12.97% no (261)

Ending of Dual Degree Program with Tel Aviv University:
65.62% in favor (1321)
19.77% abstain (398)
14.61% no (294)

To the shameful genocide profiteers listed below, including our University President and the Board of Trustees, we say: we are putting you on notice. The entire world is watching. So what will you do next?

Minouche Shafik
David Greenwald
Claire Shipman
Abigail Black Elbaum
Mark Gallogly
Wanda M. Holland
Andrew F. Barth
Dean Dakolias
Duchesne Drew
Keith Goggin
Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr.
Kikka Hanazawa
Jeh Johnson
Li Lu
Victor Mendelson
Adam Pritzker
Jonathan Rosand
Shoshana Shendelman
Kathy Surace-Smith
Fermi Wang
Shirley Wang

Dystopian images and sounds from our comrades at NYU, where their own Gaza Solidarity encampment has just been stormed by the NYPD. It is estimated that over a hundred have been arrested, including students and faculty, and more arrests seem imminent. Police buses are currently being prevented from leaving.

The pigs began by targeting courageous NYU faculty members who served as the first line of defense around the students.

BREAKING: With her threat having been leaked on social media, President Minouche Shafik has now confirmed in an email to university affiliates that the National Guard may be used to disperse protesters at Columbia TONIGHT sometime after midnight, presumably in collaboration with Governor Hochul.

This chilling pronouncement comes after days of bad faith “negotiations” on the part of administration, and a little over a week before the 54th anniversary of the Kent State Massacre, when the National Guard brutally murdered 4 students and injured several more for mobilizing against campus militarization and the Vietnam War. Shafik proudly embraces these clear historical parallels.

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🚨URGENT ACTION CALL🚨‼️
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WE ARE CALLING FOR STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND STAFF TO RETURN TO THE LAWN WITHIN THE HOUR, AND FOR PEOPLE OF CONSCIENCE ACROSS NYC TO GATHER IN PROTEST OUTSIDE OF COLUMBIA. WE WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED BY THREATS BY THE STATE. DISCLOSE, DIVEST: WE WILL NOT STOP, WE WILL NOT REST. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Thousands of students, faculty, and staff have entered and surrounded the encampment as helicopters hover overhead. The deadline for dispersal has been extended to 8am. We are unmoved.