Columbia University

‘We Promise Each other Liberation’: Columbia Activists Honor Expelled Students at the ‘People’s Graduation’

June 3, 2025 UNAC Editor Civil Resistance, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements, Protest, Student Activists, The War at Home

By Columbia University Apartheid Divest Coalition, published on Mondoweiss, May 24, 2025 On May 18, 2025 families and friends gathered at the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew on Manhattan’s Upper West Side to honor expelled and suspended student protesters during an alternative graduation ceremony titled the “People’s Graduation.” Among those recognized was Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student[…]

The Distortion of Campus Protests Over Gaza

May 9, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Censorship and Propaganda, Civil Resistance, Free Speech, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Organizing, Palestine, US Hypocrisy, US Politics, Zionism

How the Right Has Weaponized Antisemitism to Distract from Israel’s War by Helen Benedict, published on Tom Dispatch, May 2, 2024 Helicopters have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of Broadway, many in riot gear. Police vans, some as big as a city bus, are lined up along side streets and Broadway. Outside[…]

Students win latest battle against white supremacy at Columbia

November 8, 2017 UNAC Editor The War at Home

Reprinted from Workers’ World website. New York —After a storm of criticism, Columbia University administrators have stopped their investigation of students who shut down the October appearance of a white supremacist there. Columbia has centuries of ties to white supremacy. Executive Vice President for University Life Suzanne Goldberg reportedly emailed students on Oct. 30, saying charges were being dropped against[…]