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The President's decision to send riot police to pick up peaceful protesters on our

campus was unprecedented, unjustified, disproportionate, divisive, and dangerous.

Yeah. Shable!

The Columbia University's crackdown on the student-Gazah Solidarity Encampment has inspired Palestinian

Solidarity protests on campuses across the country.

On Monday, police raided encampments at NYU and Yale arresting over 200 people including

students and professors. We'll speak to the head of

Columbia's Institute for the Study of Human Rights. The faculty at the

Institute for the Study of Human Rights felt it was imperative to make a strong statement condemning the repressive actions against student protests, the rights of students to protest peacefully, and freedoms of speech on campus.

We'll also look back at the historic 1968 student occupation at Columbia University

which began 56 years ago today.

Then we'll speak to the pioneering union organizer

Jane McAlibi on the fight for labor rights

and her own personal fight against terminal cancer.

I'm looking forward to discussing the incredible victory by 4,300 Volkswagen workers

this past Friday on Chattanooga, Tennessee. and

3 300 Volkswagen workers this past Friday on Chattanooga, Tennessee. It was a huge and really important breakthrough in the U.S. South.

And I'm also looking forward to sharing 25 years of lessons about what kind of organizing is required to pull off a win like

the workers just didn't the sale.

All that and more coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now.

Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman.

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