Students Rebuild Columbia Encampment One Day After Mass Arrests
Less than 24 hours after the NYPD cleared the original Gaza Solidarity Encampment and arrested more than 100 students, Columbia protesters had already reoccupied the lawn in front of Butler Library. Palestinian flags and hand-painted signs cover the grass in front of Butler Library as students gather at the rebuilt Gaza Solidarity Encampment on West Butler Lawn. The library’s facade, inscribed with the names of Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Cicero, and Virgil, glows behind them....