Columbia’s Gaza Encampment Gave Students Firsthand Experience of Mutual Aid

On May 3, Columbia University’s campus was quiet. There was already little evidence of the large pro-Palestinian encampment which had previously occupied a central campus lawn, other than a patchwork of faded marks in the grass where tents had sprung up and stayed for weeks before the final set of arrests on April 30. Just before sundown, a large moving truck idled in front of the co-ed Greek...

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