May 9, 2025 More than a dozen people were taken into custody during a protest at Brooklyn College on Thursday. The NYPD said seven people were arrested, and seven others were issued summonses. Video showed demonstrators on the school’s quad near eight tents. The protesters had Palestinian flags and several banners, including one reading, “Stop […]
Tag: occupations
NYPD arrests pro-Palestinian protesters after Columbia University library takeover
Police arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators who took over part of Columbia University’s main library on May 7. Ahead of finals week at the Ivy League campus, student activists clashed with campus public safety officials and contracted security guards inside and outside Butler Library. Videos posted to social media showed confrontations between university officials at […]
THE BATTLE OF HIND’S HALL FROM OUR SIDE OF THE BARRICADES
A MESSAGE TO THE STUDENT INTIFADA: Let us not dialogue with our persecutors. In the words of Ghassan Kanafani, we must reject the “conversation between the sword and the neck.” The footage you are viewing is contraband. It was smuggled out of Hind’s Hall and hidden from the NYPD in the band of a militant’s bra. […]
Protesters stage sit-in outside Barnard dean’s office
February 26, 2025 Dozens of protesters staged a sit-in outside Barnard Dean Leslie Grinage’s office in Milbank Hall the afternoon of Wednesday calling for the “immediate reversal” of two student expulsions. The protesters dispersed at around 10:30 p.m. with a tentative agreement to meet with Grinage and Barnard President Laura Rosenbury on Thursday. Protesters spent […]
15 Months of Protest Art for Gaza
Admin note: only New York sections included Over the last 15 months, artists have mobilized against Israel’s attacks on civilians in Gaza, which organizations including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have determined to be consistent with genocide. After multiple failed attempts, Israel and Hamas agreed to a mutually negotiated ceasefire deal that went into […]
REVOLT FOR RAFAH: New Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia
REVOLT FOR RAFAH: Join Palestinian students, supported by the wider community at Columbia, at a the new Gaza Solidarity Encampment. We are outraged by Columbia’s complicity in the killing of our people in Gaza, and most recently the massacre in Rafah. We are equally outraged by Columbia’s use of brute force and their capitulation to […]
Autonomous Activists De-Occupy Brooklyn Museum
May 31 Hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters have stormed into the Brooklyn Museum, breaking through barricades, pushing staff out and occupying the building. See video on Telegram Story from mainstream media: Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators swarmed the Brooklyn Museum and dozens were arrested Friday. The New York City Police Department said 34 people were taken […]
FROM HARLEM TO PALESTINE: GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA
In the early morning of April 30, 2024, we liberated Hamilton Hall at Columbia University. Nearly two weeks earlier, hundreds of people had constructed the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on Butler Lawn, under constant threats of police abuse and university discipline. This encampment helped spark a global movement against the role of universities in imperialist-Zionist genocide. […]
Scenes from the Student Intifada in NYC (April 17 – May 8, 2024)
From the admins: a cursory selection of photos and videos found on various Telegram channels. We would greatly appreciate submissions of recaps, reportbacks, and reflections from this wave of encampments, occupations, and demos in NYC.