With the greenlight of Columbia President Minouche Shafik and her administration, NYPD has entered Hind Hall through the windows and begun to mass arrest students inside. Let this be remembered as Columbia and Shafik’s legacy: one of mobilizing the violence and terror of the state against their own students and faculty, solely to prevent an end to Columbia’s complicity in a genocide.

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  • Nobody@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    They took Occupy in the night, too. Coordinated strike on the remaining camps. It always comes down to the government’s monopoly on violence.

    The Panthers were right. Revolutionaries should be armed.

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        4 months ago

        Maybe. It’s also possible that the administration would have negotiated a settlement with the protestors to avoid escalation.

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            4 months ago

            If they ever descalate they may find themselves living in the system they created and whoa-ho do I kinda get why they’re so goddamn afraid of that. If only they hadn’t made it so awful down here.