55 years ago, April 20 1969, hundreds of 'straight and freaky people' in Berkeley showed up on Sunday afternoon to a vacant lot of university-owned land between Dwight and Haste to begin constructing People's Park

Faculty demonstration on Monday at Columbia:

The racist harassment of Muslim students by members of Columbia’s faculty is unprofessional, unethical, and morally abhorrent. But as with so many other incidents of adult and administrative malfeasance, the solidarity these students show their classmates has been heroic.

Greta Gerwig is supposed to speak at Barnard convocation. IMO, she should boycott until, and if, the students terms are met

a good day to remember that Columbia University is the largest land owner in NYC and skips paying $179 million on taxes every year 😏

staffer with barnard’s public safety team resigning over the clearly racially motivated arrests means so much to me 🙌🏼 so much kudos to them

Most of all, I saw students experiment w making a society: they are experimenting w self governance, and with educating, entertaining, praying with, feeding, defending, organizing and caring for one another. How beautiful is that?!

for all the claims universities make of being “global campuses,” it’s this unsanctioned one that has turned out to be the campus of the world

Really big kiddos to Adam Tooze using his considerable platform to supporting an end to this genocide from the beginning & for using his star power in support of these students

Statement of the Barnard-Columbia chapters of the AAUP regarding the mass arrest of peacefully protesting students: “We have lost confidence in our president and administration, and we pledge to reclaim our university.”

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Statement from Columbia and Barnard faculty about the arrests on campus.

I love how creative they are.

As we shame Minouche Shafik let’s not forget these two monsters of Barnard College who are targeting student organizers and making teenagers homeless. They’re trying to hide behind Shafik’s shame, but they are just as evil

Barnard deserves just as much shame!

#cu4palestine

I’ve heard:

“The Columbia AAUP held an emergency meeting today, called on the university to drop charges and reinstate the students.

They are organizing to move classes off campus Monday, boycotting graduation, and moving to vote no confidence in the president.'

Good.

Listening to odd future

'I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone' by Richard Brautigan

The biggest problem in climate finance today is not derisking per se. It's that policymakers' insist on 'unlocking' the private sector in emerging markets without making any efforts to fix the global financial system that warps how investment flows in the first place.