From our medic team:

Street medics currently treating CUNY comrades from the encampment at CCNY at
Avrilililly’s Creamery
1610 Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY 10031

Between 139th & 140th

Any injured or pepper sprayed folks in the area can go there now for help, unsure how long they’ll be set up there

Be aware there are cops on this corner and it’s not a long term respite spot it’s an in between location!

🔊‼️ ALERT ‼️🔊

🚨🚨🚨 URGENT CALL TO DEFEND THE CUNY GAZA SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT NOW 🚨🚨🚨Protest outside the gates on W 139 and Amsterdam!!

WE NEED NUMBERS AND WITNESSES NOW ALL OUT TO W139 AND AMSTERDAM

🔊‼️ ALERT ‼️🔊
🚨🚨🚨 URGENT CALL CUNY GAZA SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT NOW, COPS ARE GOING TO SWEEP THE CAMP IMMEDIATELY, ALL OUT FOR CUNY 🚨🚨🚨 HEAD TO AMSTERDAM & 141ST

🚨FLOOD CCNY RIGHT NOW🚨

NYPD IS GOING TO SWEEP THE CUNY GAZA SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT AT CCNY! ALL OUT TO 139th & AMSTERDAM RIGHT NOW‼️

Protestors spirits' remain high as they are welcomed to cheers from New Yorkers who know they are standing on the right side of history.

🚨🚨URGENT🚨🚨
THE NYPD RAIDED THE CUNY ENCAMPMENT, MASS ARRESTS
We need folks at 1 Police Plaza jail support right now.

Let it be known, we salute our comrades- staff, students and faculty and even legal observers who were arrested today by the pigs.

History will absolve you.

As for CUNY Administration- we will never forget the levels of violence and brutality you deployed on working class students of color while defending the most horrific of crimes- you chose to be on the side of genocide and violence, we chose to be on the side of liberation and freedom. History will never forget, and the present has declared you as fascists.

To our community, we invite you to join us for URGENT Jail Support at One Police Plaza and ask that you continue to flood the inbox and phones of the CUNY admin demanding justice for our comrades and demanding that they meet our Five Demands.

An hour ago, the NYPD raided the CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment after the CCNY administration gave them the green light to raid the encampment and brutalize CUNY students, faculty, staff and community members. As far as we know, the first person the cops arrested as they entered the campus was a professor who is the faculty member on our negotiation team, and had just gotten off the phone with CUNY Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. The Vice Chancellor feigned ignorance on police activity on campus. Right after, the NYPD arrested 150+ CUNY students and community members. This is an fascistic attempt at destabilizing our movement. More info to come. We will not back down. We will stand our ground until Palestine is free.

URGENT: Ongoing Jail Support needed following mass arrests at Columbia and CUNY (CCNY) late last night. Mobilize NOW at 1 Police Plaza. Meeting point: 225 Park Row, New York, NY.

For Immediate Release: May 1, 2024

City College President unleashes police brutality on CUNY student encampment
Students remain undeterred, stand with Palestine

NEW YORK, New York, May 1, 2024

On the afternoon of Tuesday, April 30th, 2024, City College President Vincent Boudreau sent a letter to the CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment, warning that the encampment must be dismantled by the morning of May 1st, 2024, or the university would “consider all legal, disciplinary and operational measures at our disposal." In a call with the vice-chancellor, a CUNY faculty member representing the encampment implored the administration not to use violent force against peaceful student protestors. 

Inside the encampment, students who had earlier that day been engaged in craft workshops, teach-ins, and choir performances held a vote on whether to leave overnight, or to stay and defend the encampment. They voted unanimously to stay. 

Campus security along with NYPD locked down all entrances to the campus in an effort
to block access in and out of the encampment. Thousands gathered outside the gates to protest in solidarity with the students. 

At approximately 11pm, without warning, Boudreau requested the NYPD enter the encampment to arrest students and faculty. Boudreau claimed that he did so in the interests of student “safety” because the CUNY students and workers peacefully protesting posed a security risk. Protestors stood their ground as SRG swarmed the campus and were viciously attacked. Police broke the ankle of an undergraduate student, broke the teeth of two protestors, attacked and burned many students, faculty and at least one journalist with pepper spray at close range, and beat many more with batons. Legal observers were denied entry or arrested. Among the first to be arrested was the faculty member who had been negotiating with the vice-president moments earlier. 133 arrests were made.

As officers made their way on to campus, an autonomous group of students managed to occupy the finance office of the Howard E. Wille administration building in a final act of resistance. The students held the building for over an hour until they were violently removed and arrested. 

We will not be intimidated by these brutal and spineless tactics. We realize they express the university’s fear of our commitment to the Palestinian national liberation struggle. We take our lead from the steadfast resistance of the Palestinian people, who face far greater threats and challenges than we do here. As we write, the IOF is preparing to invade Rafah, with reports that military-aged men are being prevented from leaving. Our university's complicity in Israel's brutal genocide is the reason we created this encampment, and it is the reason we will continue to fight for our five demands: disclose and divest, a full academic boycott of Israel, protection for students and workers who stand in solidarity with Palestine, the demilitarization of CUNY and Harlem, and a people's CUNY not beholden to big donors. We will not stop until these demands are met. 

This is just the beginning. 

¡Viva viva, Palestina! 

🔊🔊🔊🔊

🚨 BREAKING 🚨: Brave students at Fordham University in NYC have set up an encampment inside the building despite the escalated aggression against students last night at CUNY and Columbia and are now being KETTLED in a locked down campus surrounded by NYPD. Organizers are requesting support from the general public. Mobilize within your networks to join the rally at 60th and Columbus in Manhattan NOW.

We call on the community to support our brave students in the encampments around the city right now- ALL OUT TO FORDHAM LINCOLN CENTER. ALL OUT TO NYU. ALL OUT TO FIT. ALL OUT TO TNS. ALL OUT TO STONY BROOK. ALL OUT FOR PALESTINE NOW!

🔊🔊🔊🔊

🚨ALL OUT TONIGHT FOR CUNY/COLUMBIA🚨
🇵🇸 Students & Community Speak Out on Last Nights Assault by NYPD
📍 140th & Amsterdam
⏱️ Press Conference at 6PM | Rally at 7PM
📱FOR UPDATES:
@wolpalestine
telegram: t.iss.one/wolpalestine & t.iss.one/wolprotest

‼️CCNY/COLUMBIA PRESS CONFERENCE STARTING NOW‼️

📍140th St & Amsterdam Ave

RALLYING NOW!

📍140th & Amsterdam

Still here outside of CCNY at 140th and Amsterdam 🇵🇸

Despite the police brutality unleashed on the students and community of Columbia University and CCNY-CUNY just yesterday, the people remain steadfast and rally in support of Palestine and Gaza! 📍: 140th and Amsterdam outside of CCNY

Head to 116 and Amsterdam at 9:00 for a light show outside Hind's Hall. Columbia and the NYPD seeks to erase all we have built but our fight is not over! We will not rest until Columbia divests.

Light show right now from the Columbia encampment at Columbia University outside of Hind’s Hall. Long live Hind’s Hall, every fascist state will fall! 📍: 116th and Amsterdam Ave

‼️‼️GET TO THE NEW SCHOOL RIGHT NOW! ‼️🔈

STUDENTS ARE BEING ATTACKED AND PUSHED BY PUBLIC SAFETY. ADMINISTRATION AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES HAVE FAILED TO AGREE TO DIVESTMENT COMMANDS AND REFUSE TO TAKE A VOTE. THEY ARE NOW DEMANDING STUDENTS REMOVE THEMSELVES FROM THE ENTRANCE OF THE SCHOOL.

THE BRAVE STUDENTS ARE NOT MOVING AND PLAN TO STAND THEIR GROUND AGAINST THESE INTIMIDATION TACTICS. PROTECT THE NEW SCHOOL GAZA SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT NOW!

We call on the ALL members of the community to get to The New School and protest outside with us!

📍63 5th Ave
⏰ NOW! ASAP!

DISCLOSE, DIVEST!
WE WILL NOT STOP WE WILL NOT REST!

UPDATE: ALL of our CUNY comrades have finally been released.

We are enraged by the brutal force and violence perpetrated by NYPD, SRG and CUNY PS. We ask you all to continue to call and email the CUNY administration and hold them accountable.

We need to press CUNY to advocate for withdrawing all charges against the protesters and to refuse to participate in the prosecution.

Not only is CUNY complicit in the genocide of our people overseas- but they are also directly responsible for calling the pigs to abuse and assault our people over here as well.

Our demands have always been clear and we remain principled in our solidarity. We do this for Gaza. We do this for Palestine. And with Rafah under a brutal siege and attack, there is nothing that can deter us from our goal to achieving liberation.

From the river to the sea, Palestine is almost free! ❤️‍🔥🇵🇸✊🏽