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. By dusk on April 19, the new encampment on West Butler Lawn was fully established. A large banner reading “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” stretched across its center, flanked by Palestinian flags. Handmade signs reading “Join Us,” “Stop Bombing,” and calls for the university to divest from companies tied to the war in Gaza were laid across the grass....