Pro-Palestinian protesters 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 andSince its distribution, occupations have popped up at a growing number of universities across the country, including most recently George Washington University in“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...
The historical comparison to 1968 is embedded into the ether of today’s pro-Palestinian occupiers. On the first day of the occupation, Columbia’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, as well as Columbia University Apartheid Divest, posted a picture comparing themselves to the anti-war protesters.The pamphlet walks through 14 “lessons … that might be useful today, now that university occupations have re-emerged as a tactic within the movement to halt the genocide in Gaza.
“Occupations draw strength from the specter of a riot,” the pamphlet reads, including by seeking support from locals unaffiliated with Columbia.“The April 1968 occupations took place in the immediate aftermath of the ‘Holy Week’ of riots in the surrounding neighborhood and cities across the country after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” the document reads.
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