In Gaza Protest, Columbia Students Occupy Hamilton Hall, Site of Historic 1968 Takeover

[Uncle Joe]

Columbia University students began occupying Hamilton Hall shortly after midnight Tuesday as the university moved to suspend students who joined Gaza solidarity protests, and renamed it Hind's Hall, after Hind Rajab, a 6-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israeli soldiers in Gaza in January. We look at how it was 56 years ago today, on April 30, 1968, that the hall was also the site of the historic student occupation by students who renamed the building "Nat Turner Hall at Malcolm X University." We feature an archival newsreel about the 1968 occupation and our interviews with campus activists on the 40th anniversary of the action about how they were protesting Columbia's connections to the military-industrial complex and racist development policies in Harlem.

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[AkFemDem]

1. Funny how in the 60s

People were brave enough and motivated enough to show their faces.

[nocoincidences]

3. That was also my reaction!

They are imitating those Hamas cowards.

[JohnSJ]

2. Amy Goodman is connected to Neville Roy Singham and Jodie Evans.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3232740

or another side to these protests:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218907699