How Black Students Helped Lead the 1968 Columbia U. Strike Against Militarism & Racism 50 Years Ago
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- Опубліковано 22 кві 2018
- democracynow.org - Fifty years ago today, on April 23, 1968, hundreds of students at Columbia University in New York started a revolt on campus. They occupied five buildings, including the president’s office in Low Library, then students barricaded themselves inside the buildings for days. They were protesting Columbia’s ties to military research and plans to build a university gymnasium in a public park in Harlem. The protests began less than three weeks after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The 1968 Columbia uprising led to one of the largest mass arrests in New York City history-more than 700 people arrested on April 30. It also inspired student protests across the country. Today, we spend the hour looking back at this pivotal moment. We are joined by Raymond Brown, former leader of the Student Afro-American Society; Nancy Biberman, a Barnard College student who joined the protests as a member of Students for Democratic Society; Mark Rudd, chair of the Columbia University chapter of SDS during the student strike; and Paul Cronin, editor of the new book “A Time to Stir: Columbia ’68.” We also feature excerpts from the 1968 documentary “Columbia Revolt” by Third World Newsreel.
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Fast-forward to April 2024, history repeating itself with a new generation of students.
Actually nah, now we are fighting for white rights and racism against whites. We are winning too. Y’all had your run from 2015-2022. It’s never happening 🥰
Yeah, white men are really thick, we never learn, Destruction wherever we go.
Juan Gonzalez: 56 years of activism and excellence since 1968.
Columbia Revolt is a classic example why the Betsy Devos crowd does not support educating the public - knowledge gives people power, not money power. Thank you for your involvement Juan Gonzales!
where can I find it?
Arent you so cute.
Wow, allowing comments today! Gosh, such a privilege to have a voice! Thank you so much for allowing us to speak!!
Thank your masters
This is really fascinating. I had no idea that this was an event in history, but I’m grateful to have been educated. I’d love to view this film. Where would I be able to find it?
Net it out. Student idealism against demands of major economic donors. The Administration must choose whose opinions will dominate. The outcome will be interesting.
The honorable legacy of students and youth of the USA bringing about significant humanitarian transformation in a their country and subsequently in the world must be upheld and promoted by the generation that is now in the decision-making position of the USA.
I refuse to be nostalgic about these protests. When do we stop doing the same thing expecting different results - that is the definition of insanity - Dr. Albert Einstein. We MUST identify the ROOT of the problem in this Country and extirpate it or we will be seeing our great grandchildren engaged in the same behavior. We all know what the ROOT of the problem is who can no one speak against without facing public humiliation and loss of their livelihood? Answer that question and you have the culprit for everything that plagues this country.
20 Newsreel Members shot the first Anti-Vietnam War strike at Columbia, but the 100 hours were Assembled, Co-Directed by Lynn Phillips and I. Both of us came to H'wood to Write. She worked on the Mary Hartman Show, I wrote a screenplay on Wiretapping by AT$T for Al Pacino and Martin Bregman, but AT$T killed the movie. "Operator" Universal
11:50 in -- "symbols are as important as facts sometimes" -- very true. And later, "two women were the ones to yell, 'To the Gym!', and then we all jumped on the bulldozers." -- Right On Nancy!
Students are the spark of Revolution.
Good People of the Earth Stands with Palestine.
By "good people", you mean "communist filth".
So much history with people coming together for a common purpose! Against the unjust system!
I can’t believe they were personally thanked by Mao Zedong
Big name, huh?
2024 and here again! Solidarity with the students!
Cronin, comment on police brutality very good 👍
I graduated in 1971. Unfortunately during a time of horrific academic treatment of women, the men in SDS were particularly anti-feminist.
15:08 in -- I love the poster of Malcolm X and the young Panther standing below it. We need the Panthers and the Weather Underground again, and lyrics like the Jefferson Airplane's "We Can Be Together":
"All your private property is target for your enemy
And your enemy
Is we...
"We are forces of chaos and anarchy
Everything they say we are we are
And we are very
Proud of ourselves
Up against the wall
Up against the wall motherfucker
Tear down the walls
Tear down the walls"
My heroes from 1968 were the young men who fought for democracy in VIETNAM! Many were from rural and blue collar backgrounds contrast them with the spoiled college demonstrators! May the Veterans memory be eternal!
they weren't fighting for democracy, they were just protecting the business interests of capitalism, none of the governments they established were democratic, all of them were military juntas outside of places like Europe and the fake democracy that did exist in Europe or similar western countries were secretly infiltrated and subverted by intelligence agencies like the CIA globally because communists and anyone remotely left wing were winning electorally, they even admit that they interfered in the elections in Italy, Greece, Australia
So what?
Your clearly entitled and an underachiever
Your opinion is worth a crickets weight
How black students should stop fighting Everybody's battles since nobody finds ourS.
Everybody's battles? Columbia University, a mostly Caucasian, private entity was attempting to build a gym in a public park, which was one of the few park spaces in Harlem. Harlem pre-gentrification was a Black neighborhood.
Joe W. Says: The More Things Change...
And now the cops come in and club you again. Great progress.
Shame on this woman im actually shocked hope she gets fired America needs to wake up
Clear evidence time always relive itself there is nothing new under the sun
We need Parents Israelies and Palestinians to dhow the world that those estudents R not alone, pTents support them🙏