How Black Students Helped Lead the 1968 Columbia U. Strike Against Militarism & Racism 50 Years Ago

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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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@ksh8910 Ай бұрын

Fast-forward to April 2024, history repeating itself with a new generation of students.

@meltedmarshdaddy 28 күн бұрын

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 🥰

@sofiajohansson8537 12 күн бұрын

Yeah, white men are really thick, we never learn, Destruction wherever we go.

@netizencapet Ай бұрын

Juan Gonzalez: 56 years of activism and excellence since 1968.

@Random_Adventures_NY 6 жыл бұрын

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!

@Random_Adventures_NY 6 жыл бұрын

where can I find it?

@Random_Adventures_NY 6 жыл бұрын

Arent you so cute.

@Jianju69 29 күн бұрын

Wow, allowing comments today! Gosh, such a privilege to have a voice! Thank you so much for allowing us to speak!!

@nikolademitri731 6 жыл бұрын

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?

@tomjeffersonwasright2288 Ай бұрын

Net it out. Student idealism against demands of major economic donors. The Administration must choose whose opinions will dominate. The outcome will be interesting.

@carmelovirgiliolim2984 Ай бұрын

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.

@darkmatters7562 Ай бұрын

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.

@ashebermulugata9 Ай бұрын

Students are the spark of Revolution. Good People of the Earth Stands with Palestine.

@6B8RX Ай бұрын

By "good people", you mean "communist filth".

@forestsoceansmusic 6 жыл бұрын

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!

@natlenan6743 Ай бұрын

2024 and here again! Solidarity with the students!

@laboruniontv5702 6 жыл бұрын

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

@kingkel6988 26 күн бұрын

So much history with people coming together for a common purpose! Against the unjust system!

@miriamcollinge9162 Ай бұрын

Cronin, comment on police brutality very good 👍

@pjballa91 6 жыл бұрын

I can’t believe they were personally thanked by Mao Zedong

@netizencapet Ай бұрын

Big name, huh?

@TedfromTorrance 29 күн бұрын

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!

@davidmartinez688 7 күн бұрын

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

@forestsoceansmusic 6 жыл бұрын

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"

@glenbolderson9279 16 күн бұрын

And now the cops come in and club you again. Great progress.

@cuucnsbfl9913 Ай бұрын

Joe W. Says: The More Things Change...

@nicholawilson8555 Ай бұрын

Shame on this woman im actually shocked hope she gets fired America needs to wake up

@rawstatustv2358 Ай бұрын

How black students should stop fighting Everybody's battles since nobody finds ourS.

@el-Cu9432 Ай бұрын

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.