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The pro-Palestine encampment is seen connected nan grounds of Columbia University successful New York City connected Monday. Students took complete Hamilton Hall early Tuesday. Photo by Louis Lanzano/UPI | License Photo
April 30 (UPI) -- Columbia University reported connected Tuesday that a group of pro-Palestinian protesters entered and occupied Hamilton Hall astatine its Morningside field aft defying an bid to vacate encampments.
The university warned people to enactment distant from nan field successful a statement early Tuesday morning.
"In ray of nan protestation activity connected campus, members of nan assemblage organization who tin debar coming to nan Morningside field coming should do so," nan assemblage said successful a nationalist information statement. "Essential unit should study to activity according to assemblage policy."
Hamilton Hall stands successful distinction for being taken complete during field anti-Vietnam demonstrations successful 1968. Protesters came together extracurricular of nan building early Thursday earlier a mini group collapsed disconnected and stormed nan hall.
That group barricaded themselves wrong utilizing vending machines, chairs and nan table wrong of Hamilton Hall. The demonstrators appeared to break windows from nan wrong arsenic they were shouted connected by nan extracurricular crowd.
The group Columbia University Apartheid Divest took work for nan Hamilton Hall storming connected societal media.
"This escalation represents nan adjacent procreation of nan 1968, 1985 and 1992 student movements which Columbia erstwhile repressed yet observe today," nan group's connection connected X said. "Protesters person voiced their volition to stay astatine [Hamilton Hall] until Columbia concedes to CUAD's 3 demands: divestment, financial transparency and amnesty."
The business came hours aft Columbia's President Minouche Shafik said that talks had surgery down betwixt nan assemblage and protesting students by a deadline group for them to vacate encampments erected complete Israel's consequence to Hamas successful Gaza since past October.
Columbia said it began suspending students who violated nan deadline, barring them from entering assemblage buildings and revoking their eligibility to complete nan semester aliases graduate.
The protestation astatine Columbia University is simply a portion of protests astatine assemblage campuses crossed nan state protesting Israel's action during nan Gaza warfare that has near overmuch of nan region damaged and its residents hopeless for humanitarian aid.
