Police remove pro-Palestinian protesters from Columbia University
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🗓️ 1 May 2024
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Late last night, police officers carrying zip ties and riot shields stormed an administration building at Columbia University being occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters and arrested dozens of people. Five Republican-led states have sued the Biden administration over its revisions to the Title IX code. In an ever-divided culture, it is our calling to emulate Christ and bring light into the darkness.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and welcome to the Daily Article podcast. Today is Wednesday, May the 1st, 2024. Today's |
| 0:08.8 | article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum. |
| 0:15.7 | Late last night, police officers carrying zip lines and riot shields stormed an administration building at Columbia |
| 0:23.1 | University being occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters and arrested dozens of people. Police have also |
| 0:30.1 | been deployed to UCLA this morning in response to multiple acts of violence on campus. They have cleared |
| 0:36.4 | out protest encampments at several other |
| 0:38.6 | universities as well, though encampments continue at more than 40 colleges nationwide. One protester |
| 0:44.9 | at Columbia claimed, this is no longer an Israel-Palestine issue. It's a human rights and free speech |
| 0:51.0 | and a Columbia student issue. Not according to Columbia professor John McWhorter, |
| 0:56.2 | who writes that the protests are a form of abuse against Jewish students and the larger campus |
| 1:02.6 | community, David French. A legal specialist on free speech adds that the campus protests |
| 1:08.3 | by vandalizing property and violating the rights of others are |
| 1:11.6 | not free expressions or civil disobedience, but quote unquote, outright lawlessness. |
| 1:17.6 | In a post-truth culture, how can either side persuade the other? |
| 1:21.6 | Is the escalating violence on our campuses a picture of our cultural future? Five Republican-led states have sued |
| 1:29.6 | the Biden administration over its revisions to the Title IX code, expanding sex to include |
| 1:36.6 | sexual orientation and gender identity. A handful of Republican officials in other states have |
| 1:43.1 | also stated that they will not enforce the new code requiring schools to open girls' facilities and teams to biological boys who identify as girls and boys' facilities to biological girls who identify as boys. |
| 1:59.1 | Louisiana Attorney General Liz Morrill filed one of the lawsuits |
| 2:03.5 | calling the revisions a political agenda that is ignoring significant safety concerns |
| 2:10.4 | for young women students in schools across the country. She added that this |
| 2:15.2 | enormously invasive mandate that well exceeds their statutory authority |
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