‘First we take Columbia’: Pro-Palestinian activists spread occupation guidebook to overrun schools
By
Breccan F. Thies
April 25, 2024 6:41 pm
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Pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University and Yale University are circulating a guidebook to activists across the country encouraging more occupations and teaching them how to be successful.
The pamphlet, titled “First We Take Columbia: Lessons from the April 1968 Occupations Movement,” was anonymously written by protesters at the Columbia and Yale encampments and published in left-wing dissident magazine Ill Will on Saturday. It was distributed by hand at the Columbia encampment on Monday.
Since its distribution, occupations have popped up at a growing number of universities across the country, including most recently George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The pamphlet is available in English, French, Turkish, Chinese, Spanish, and Japanese.
“When you seize a town, a campus, get hold of the power stations, the water, the transportation, forget to negotiate, forget how to negotiate, don’t wait for De Gaulle or Kirk to abdicate, they won’t, you are not ‘demonstrating’ you are fighting a war, fight to win, don’t wait for Johnson or Humphrey or Rockefeller, to agree to your terms take what you need, ‘it’s free because it’s yours,'” the letter begins, quoting American poet Diane Di Prima’s Revolutionary Letter #15.
The pamphlet, which was shared by groups including Palestine Action U.S. and the national Students for Justice in Palestine organization, was also supported by the encampment organizing coalition Columbia University Apartheid Divest, which commented on social media in approval.
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