We need a specific thread for this ongoing situation. Stories about other protest locations would fit here too.
This is the official radio station for Columbia, which is also the number one radio station in NYC. They have shelved normal programming to cover the ongoing protest:
Around 10:30pm local time, ‘public safety officers’ showed up in force, including going to the radio studio to force all the journalists and presenters to leave. It’s a 24/7/365 radio station that has never been shut down. They kept reporting, and finally someone said it was “a misunderstanding” and they’re allowed to keep doing their jobs.
Apparently Nan Goldin tried to get in earlier today but was unable to.
Definitely. Send in federal troops to protect students’ constitutional right to protest and petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Columbia receives hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding each year; to continue to receive that funding, it should be expected to protect students’ basic 1A rights instead of violating them.
(Ironically, I found the data on Reason in an essay that makes a very psuedo-socialist argument that the government shouldn’t be funding “billion dollar corporations” like Stanford and Harvard…)
According to the radio station covering this, Columbia has added SRG (strategic response) troops to the mix this afternoon, and there are several correctional buses waiting a block from the campus. So far there have been some injuries, but I worry things will get much more dire, probably tonight.
(video news)
