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Hey David, it's 10.07 a.m. on Wednesday morning.

This is Julia Vargas Jones.

She's a freelance reporter for CNN.

She's also been trying to finish up her master's degree in journalism and

politics at Columbia University in New York City. And for the last few weeks

Julia and her fellow grad student, Corinne,

Kata Bayan, had been watching as protests against Israel's war in Gaza

took over campus.

Students had set up shop on the lawn and said they weren't leaving until their demands were met.

Outside of Hamilton Hall.

But the night before Julia sent me this voice note,

university officials sent in the NYPD to clear out a building which had been barricaded

by protesters 56 years to the day after police stormed in to arrest over 700 people who were protesting the Vietnam War and

gentrification in Harlem back in 1968.

And it just looks kind of battered. The windows are broken. It just

by the windows are broken the doors.

By morning hundreds had been arrested and the tent encampment

which inspired dozens of other protests at other schools around the country was just gone.

It's really striking because this is where all the tents were and that we're here for so long that they've left marks on the grass, so the grass that was covered

by tents is like this pale green and all the grass around it is a yeah what we're seeing here is a cleared

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