Sunday, April 30, 2000
April 30: Across The Universe
April 30, 1968 - End of Columbia University Student Strike
The first protest (Mar 28, 1968) occurred eight days before Martin Luther King's assassination (Apr 4, 1968). In response to the Columbia Administration's attempts to suppress anti-IDA student protest on its campus, and Columbia's plans for the Morningside Park gymnasium, Columbia SDS activists and the student activists who led Columbia's Student Afro Society (SAS) held a second, confrontational demonstration on April 23, 1968.The students who occupied the buildings demanded an end to Columbia University's involvement with the IDA, an end to the gym construction project in Morningside Park and amnesty for all participants in the demonstrations. The protests came to a conclusion in the early morning hours of April 30, 1968, when the NYPD violently quashed the demonstrations. The buildings occupied by Whites however were cleared violently as approximately 150 students were injured and taken to hospitals, while over 700 protesters were arrested.
The first protest (Mar 28, 1968) occurred eight days before Martin Luther King's assassination (Apr 4, 1968). In response to the Columbia Administration's attempts to suppress anti-IDA student protest on its campus, and Columbia's plans for the Morningside Park gymnasium, Columbia SDS activists and the student activists who led Columbia's Student Afro Society (SAS) held a second, confrontational demonstration on April 23, 1968.The students who occupied the buildings demanded an end to Columbia University's involvement with the IDA, an end to the gym construction project in Morningside Park and amnesty for all participants in the demonstrations. The protests came to a conclusion in the early morning hours of April 30, 1968, when the NYPD violently quashed the demonstrations. The buildings occupied by Whites however were cleared violently as approximately 150 students were injured and taken to hospitals, while over 700 protesters were arrested.
Thursday, April 27, 2000
April 27: Across The Universe
Fifth Avenue march: April 27, 1968
NYU SDS and CEWV serve as the NYU sponsors of the "International Student -Faculty Strike to Bring Our Troops Home, End the Draft and Racial Oppression". This event consists of a week of anti-war protests and discussions, culminating on Friday, April 26, in a boycott of classes and a Saturday march down Fifth Avenue.
NYU SDS and CEWV serve as the NYU sponsors of the "International Student -Faculty Strike to Bring Our Troops Home, End the Draft and Racial Oppression". This event consists of a week of anti-war protests and discussions, culminating on Friday, April 26, in a boycott of classes and a Saturday march down Fifth Avenue.
Tuesday, April 25, 2000
Sunday, April 16, 2000
Thursday, April 13, 2000
April 13: The Great Debaters
"In 1919 in India, ten thousand people gathered in Amritsar to protest the tyranny of British rule. General Reginald Dyer trapped them in a courtyard and ordered his troops to fire into the crowd for ten minutes. 379 died. Men, women, children, shot down in cold blood. Dyer said he had taught them a moral lesson. Gandhi and his followers responded not with violence, but with an organized campaign of non-cooperation. Government buildings were occupied. Streets were blocked with people who refused to rise, even when beaten by police. Gandhi was arrested, but the British were soon forced to release him. He called it a moral victory. The definition of 'moral.' Dyer's lesson, or Gandhi's victory? You choose."
Tuesday, April 4, 2000
Monday, April 3, 2000
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