Meanwhile in Columbia, traffic free city Sundays are a big thing; this looks like a great way to start to wean us off our urban addiction to automotive travel. Imagine what this would look like in London, Manchester or Edinburg (or any town/city).
Of course the 15-minute-city conspiracy theorists will have some nut-job theory about how this is a communist plot... but for the rest of us, looks like a great idea!
Class traitor Rebecca Weiner, Columbia University professor and NYPD intelligence director, spied on anti genocide student protesters and gave the green light for the violent police crackdown.
Today in Labor History May 22, 1968: New York police broke through the barricades at Columbia University, busting the student occupations there. As a result, 998 were arrested and over 200 injured. Students were demanding a black studies program and an end to military recruitment and ROTC on campus. Sound familiar? However, today’s student protests are bringing back the worst of 1960s-‘70s police brutality and university intolerance for Free Speech along with McCarthy era firing, blacklisting and doxing of academics for the crime of criticizing the Israeli government, under bogus claims of antisemitism.
from #WashingtonPost
Business titans privately urged #NYC mayor to use police on #Columbia protesters, chats show
A #WhatsApp chat started by some wealthy #Americans after the Oct. 7 #Hamas attack reveals their focus on Mayor #EricAdams and their work to shape #USA opinion of the #Gaza war.
"A handful of powerful businessmen pushed New York City Mayor Eric Adams to use police to crack down on pro-Palestinian student protesters at #Columbia University, donating to the politician and offering to pay for private investigators to help break up the demonstrations, based on leaked WhatsApp conversations"
"Universities have even gone so far as to suspend leading student groups, like Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), organizing against #Israel’s genocide in #Gaza. Yet, students across the US and the world have remained defiant and steadfast in their demands against their universities' complicity with Israel’s genocide."
article contains links to a statement by over 1,000 [#Jewish professors opposing equating #antiZionism with #antisemitism. Also contains link to a statement by Jewish students of #Columbia with the opposite position]
"What started as a student encampment at #Columbia University in New York City three weeks ago has now turned into a global #StudentMovement, expanding to Europe, Australia, Canada and beyond. We’ll get the latest from the campus grounds and ask what is next for the global #StudentMovementForGaza."
In an interview I just taped with Rashid Khalidi about #Columbia he said words to the effect of "this is the neoliberal dream of the university--no students, no professors, just administrators and cops on campus"
This morning, students at #Columbia University picketed outside the homes of three trustees.
At two of the three locations, random harassers suckerpunched student picketers. At one, a car drove into a student. NYPD arrested the victim.
The attacker is Reuven Kahane, a cousin of Meir Kahane, the late fascist founder of the JDL and the murderous #Kahanist movement in occupied Palestine
Student picketer who was struck by Kahane this morning was detained and is in the hospital, handcuffed to a bed, awaiting x-rays. Early reports of a wrist injury.
from #NewYorkTimes [gift article below]
The One-State Solution
By Edward Said
Jan. 10, 1999
This is an article by the late #EdwardSaid. He was a #Palestinian - American philosopher, academic, literary critic, and political activist. and a professor of literature at #Columbia University.
It spells out his position that only a binational state based on equality will work in #Palestine - #Israel.
from #YouTube #RashidKhalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at #Columbia gave this blistering speech about the university’s crackdown on pro-#Palestine protesters on May 1, 2024.
"The campus crackdown, at both #Columbia and schools across the nation, is indefensible. But when you are defending the indefensible, you need a spokesman like Adams, as prolific an inventor of fables as Scheherazade."
Who assaults Palestinians on daily basis violating #HumanRights everyday? NNiMF neo Nazi israel murder force.
Who deliberately targets non combatants men, women, children, toddlers, humanitarian aid workers, UN staff, journalists, food convoys then calls all those killed terrorists? NNiMF neo Nazi israel murder force ordered by neo Nazi copycat war criminal pedophile netanyahu.
Educate yourself with the Palestinian struggle of apartheid and the conditions they are surviving in the world's largest open air concentration camp.
NYPD officer fired gun during raid on Columbia protesters ( www.axios.com )