Authors, translators, journalists, filmmakers etc all welcome to sign too. For your affiliation, put your profession or your most famous work or prize ('author of x' or 'nobel prize winner' etc)

There is truly nothing more pathetic than watching people with relative degrees of institutional safety if they act in concert (aka assistant through associate professors) act like cowardly babies, yelp about their “precarity” etc—get a grip. Organize. Get it together!

in two days, 1100+ signatures from @yale alumni to echo the demands of student protesters occupying beinecke plaza

last night, the deans threatened (to no avail ofc) disciplinary action if students did not leave by 11:30pm

sign at bit.ly/divest-yale to support. get to 2k!

We are LIVE and public with the Columbia/Barnard academic and cultural boycott. As of this moment, we have 521 signatories. Please sign on and share widely. Solidarity! docs.google.com/forms/d/1a1553…

'I thought of being a child, of that sense, when learning to read, of everything I didn’t know as something to be chased & caught, back when I was shameless... the real beginning of my life.' The Paris Review, a new series on dinners, & a beauty by Elisa Gonzalez theparisreview.org/blog/2024/04/1…

psa for media and reporters:
NON-CUID W PRESS ID can email [email protected] for access to campus.

~900 signatures so far from @yale alumni + their families calling for yale's divestment from weapons manufacturing companies contributing to Israel’s assault on Palestine!!

fill out the form (bit.ly/divest-yale) in solidarity with hunger strikers and occupiers at beinecke

Please take thirty seconds to do your part for the Freedom Flotilla 🫡

A statement by Columbia and Barnard faculty issued by AAUP Columbia University Chapter today after a massive Zoom discussion yesterday in which we unequivocally agreed on the urgency of our response. Affiliated faculty can sign their names here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Statement of Columbia and Barnard faculty members: 'We condemn... the Administration’s suspension of students engaged in peaceful protest & their arrest by the NYPD....We demand that all Barnard College and Columbia University suspensions & charges be dismissed immediately.'

Statement of the Barnard-Columbia chapters of the AAUP regarding the mass arrest of peacefully protesting students: “We have lost confidence in our president and administration, and we pledge to reclaim our university.”

not comfortable with how our movement at columbia is being co-opted and being used for clout by people who weren’t 100% behind us from the start. people who are trying to get us to make our rhetoric more palatable and telling us how to protest more nicely — please stop.

The fact that this begins with a solidarity statement from students in Gaza—all joined in the call for Columbia to divest—is so stunningly beautiful.

The Union theological seminary distancing itself eloquently from shafik and @columbia actions. Bravo.

To ensure the delivery of life-saving aid to Gaza and to secure our safety, write to your congressional representative to demand the US pressure Israel into allowing us through the illegal blockade:
bit.ly/FreedomFlotill…

Please share!

Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine at Columbia, Barnard, and Teachers College announced new demands around 3:15 p.m. on Friday at the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” calling upon faculty to boycott Commencement until demands are met.
columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/1…

Barnard Columbia Abolition Collective is recommending to send donations to these orgs from here on out.

Gaza Mutual Aid Collective - Venmo & Paypal agedknafeh (put $ or @ before)
Project Watermelon-linktr.ee/projectwaterme…
Pal.Gaza-- givebutter.com/the-sanabel-te…

Exec committee of Columbia Univ Senate—the body that the President should consult pursuant to Section 444—did “not approve the presence of NYPD on our campus at this time,” Shafik 'consulted' but did not gain agreement & then invited in NYPD riot squad.
columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/1…

The Columbia Daily Spectator editorial board to university president Minouche Shafik on yesterdays crackdown on peaceful student protesters:

columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/0…