"Dozens of counter-protestors, many wearing white masks and flags over their shoulders, arrived around 10:45 p.m. and attempted to dismantle the pro-Palestinian encampment that has overtaken Royce Quad since last Thursday. The agitators lobbed fireworks at the encampment and set off what may have been bear or pepper spray.  

Demonstrators on the pro-Palestinian side used umbrellas to shield themselves, and skirmishes broke throughout the night out as counter-protesters attempted to wrestle away wood pallets, plywood and metal fencing from the encampment."

"New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday morning that police had to move in to Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall “for the safety of those children.”

He blamed outside agitators for the building takeover and said “There are people who are harmful and they’re trying to radicalize our children and we cannot ignore this.”"

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April 30, 2024

CUNY City College.

Imagine your response to a genocide is to arrest the students protesting the genocide. Outrageous.

Protesters lined up between two rows of police at City College as arrests continue. NYPD has ordered dispersal.

-- Hell Gate, 30 Apr 2024 10:59 PM EDT

The CUNY encampment at CCNY is still up as of 11:06 PM EDT. Arrests are now being made outside of the campus.

Oren Root, a longtime New York City lawyer and Columbia University graduate who was at the school when anti-Vietnam War protests rocked it in 1968, said Shafik's summoning of police was "an extraordinary miscalculation."

"President Shafik and her advisers clearly didn't learn from history," said Root, who was a top editor at The Spectator, the Columbia student newspaper, in 1968 and 1969. “Calling in the cops was clearly a mistake. Things have not gotten any calmer.”

Progressive members of the U.S. Congress on Wednesday demanded an end to nationwide police attacks on pro-Palestinian campus protests following violent raids and mass arrests at universities across the country, from Columbia in New York City to the University of South Florida in Tampa.

"The continued repression and violence against anti-war student activists and their allies by Columbia University, NYPD, and Mayor [Eric] Adams is abhorrent and barbarous," Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) wrote on social media. "The nationwide crackdown on protesters must end."

More than 300 demonstrators were arrested at Columbia and the nearby City College of New York late Tuesday alone, bringing the total number of arrests at dozens of universities across the U.S. to more than 1,000.

In a statement Tuesday, Bush said she was "appalled" by the police response to demonstrations at Washington University in St. Louis, which is in the Missouri Democrat's district.

"The police brutality, mass arrests, suspensions, evictions, and wholesale bans on access to the St. Louis campus are inappropriate, unacceptable, and outright shameful," said Bush. "Washington University administrators have joined the disgraceful nationwide trend of violent, aggressive responses by university administrators and local law enforcement aimed at curbing the rights to free speech and assembly by students, faculty, staff, and community members."

"Violently assaulting and injuring people who are courageously advocating for peace and justice for Palestinians and Israelis alike is unconscionable," she added. "I know from experience that these actions are traumatizing and dangerous; they do nothing to address the underlying issues and simply fuel more violence against nonviolent protesters."

I'm so furious right now at what's happening at college campus at Columbia and city college and I have to wake up early tomorrow. How can i sleep with how furious i am. Words can't articulate just how much hate and anger i am harboring right now. I wish I could read something or play my game but I have to focus on writing an essay i have no care for.

If anything, It solidity my hate for Zionists and Israel that god themself can't remove from my soul... and I'm an atheist. It's just so hilarious comical that the democratic party keeps harping about 'vote for us to save democracy' while at the same time sending militarize police to brutalize and suppress freedom of speech and protest in the schools they paid for. Fascism is already here, both political parties are all down for it. What brilliant liars they are. Malcolm X was right about them. From a tweet quoting Josh Paul, former Director, US Department of State (resigned in protest): "This generation of youth have spent their entire lives in fear of having guns pointed at them in schools; what a disgrace for America that is now their own schools that are pointing the guns at them." I will never vote for a democrat for as long as i live. I swear my life on that. Joe Biden and the party can go fuck themselves.

"A reporter on the scene said students were attacked with skunk spray and bear mace. While private security barred themselves in a nearby building, and with the LAPD content to stand back, the 150-to-200–strong group of Zionists were allowed to do whatever they wanted. That included spraying students, breaking down barricades, and pulling students out of the encampment to beat them with pipes and other weapon"

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Students held the line, and even after the riot cops showed up following a few hours of fighting, at around 1:40 a.m., they reportedly stood by until 3 a.m. before asking counter-protestors to leave. Over 100 people were treated for injuries, including some severe ones that required them to be carried out of the camp, though UCPD reportedly blocked emergency medical services from getting in and helping out injured students. The cops didn't try to separate the counter-protestors from the protestors until after 3 a.m., and when they did, they didn't conduct any arrests, merely clearing the area around the encampment and making sure the two sides were separated. The Daily Bruin, the UCLA student paper, reported that four of their reporters were followed and assaulted on their way back home from the violence.

"The life-threatening assault we face tonight is nothing less than a horrifying, despicable act of terror," the UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment said in a statement. "For over seven hours, Zionist aggressors hurled gas canisters, sprayed pepper spray, and threw fireworks and bricks into our encampment. They broke our barriers repeatedly, clearly in an attempt to kill our community. Campus safety left within minutes, external security the university hired for 'backup' watched, filmed, and laughed on the side as the immediate danger inflicted upon us escalated." The university, they said, "would rather see us dead than divest."

"It gives people impunity to come to our campus as a rampaging mob," UCLA professor Ananya Roy told the Los Angeles Times of law enforcement's non-response. "The word is out they can do this repeatedly and get away with it. I am ashamed of my university."

absolute insanity at City College/CCNY right now. hundreds of police, mass arrests of students and teachers ongoing. more at the above twitter.

Physicists Successfully Create a New Type of Quasiparticle

City College of New York physicists have created a new magnetic quasiparticle.

The City College of New York’s Center for Discovery and Innovation and the Physics Department have announced the creation of a new type of magnetic quasiparticle generated by coupling light to a stack of ultrathin two-dimensional magnets. This breakthrough, the result of a collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin, lays the foundation for an emerging strategy to artificially design materials by ensuring their strong interaction with light.

“Implementing our approach with magnetic materials is a promising path towards efficient magneto-optical effects,” said CCNY physicist Vinod M. Menon, whose group led the study. “Achieving this goal can enable their use for applications in everyday devices like lasers, or for digital data storage.”

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cuny students literally pushed the nypd out of the cuny encampment at the city college of new york

Several people who were detained during NYPD's raid of the CUNY-wide Palestine solidarity encampment at City College of NY remain in police custody.

Info compiled late last night provides insight into arrest details for Columbia students: 42 transferred to Central Booking, all charged with trespassing, no add’l. As of 1am, 29 had been arraigned, 13 remaining. “Many” kept in solitary confinement.

Per @/NYCProgressives, CCNY arrestees have been held over 24 hours, have not been arraigned, in violation of their civil rights/the law. Seems they’re processing Columbia first, then CCNY. Choice by NYPD to transfer so many vs issuing summons/[Desk Appearance Tickets] is causing a massive backlog.

One person from CCNY has just been released from Central Booking, after being unlawfully detained for over 24 hours.

-- Talia Jane, 2 May 2024 11:05 AM EDT

Kerri Marie Hoseney was awarded her PhD in theoretical physics by Dr. Mitchio Kaku professor and student of City College of New York (CUNY)

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new york is overwhelming at times. But, I will never get tired of exploring bookstores.