Columbia triggered a massive campus crackdown. Now the NYPD will stay for weeks.

The MoJo Daily newsletter, Monday through Friday. [View in browser]( [Support our nonprofit journalism]( [Mother Jones Daily Newsletter](     May 1, 2024 In [May Day]( rallies across the world, workers are marching with pro-Palestinian demonstrators calling for an end to Israel's war. Frankly, I love seeing this shared activism, a real-life embodiment of the civil rights phrase that no one is free until everyone is free. That this fight is happening against a backdrop of cascading injustices that affect us all—an imminent invasion of Rafah, the US's lockstep support of the war, an [outsize police response]( to student protest—makes a unified front all the more powerful. This sentiment was strong last night as I, like many of you, tuned in to Columbia's student radio station WKCR to follow the police crackdown. ([Read our Q&A with them here](!) Their staff demonstrated the very best of the fight for academic freedom and [what it means to meet this moment](. I want to end with this [New Yorker piece]( that's been on my mind the past few days, on the university's role in public discourse and what we stand to lose when administrators refuse to defend academic freedom. Strongly encourage you to read, especially if you think that browbeating students with suspensions is the right response to their justified outrage. —Inae Oh Advertisement [Minority Rule]( [Top Story] [Top Story]( [Columbia Triggered a Massive Campus Crackdown. Now the NYPD Will Stay for Weeks.]( In a major policy reversal, police were invited to clear Hamilton Hall. They made scores of arrests. BY JULIANNE MCSHANE SPONSORED CONTENT BY FARRAR, STRAUS, AND GIROUX   "[A] deeply researched and deftly argued treatise." —Booklist Chilling and revelatory, Minority Rule exposes the long history of the conflict between white supremacy and multiracial democracy that has reached a fever pitch today—while also telling the inspiring story of resistance to these regressive efforts. [Get Minority Rule here.]( [Trending] [January 6 rioter Derrick Evans could return to the Capitol—as a congressman]( BY STEPHANIE MENCIMER   [Judge fines Trump $9,000 and threatens to throw him in jail]( BY RUSS CHOMA   [This majority-Black city has a water crisis that privatization won't fix]( BY LYLLA YOUNES   [Can American labor seize the moment?]( BY HAMILTON NOLAN Advertisement [Minority Rule]( [Special Feature] [Special Feature]( [Many universities calling in police today also celebrate campus protests of the past]( “They try to co-opt this image of campus protest to try to diffuse it into an aesthetic for students to imbibe." BY JULIANNE MCSHANE MOTHER JONES MEMBERSHIP UPDATE   An important update on our finances We’re falling behind our online fundraising goals—and we can’t sustain coming up short on [donations]( month after month. It is [impossibly hard]( in the news business right now, and the [crisis]( facing journalism and democracy isn’t going away anytime soon. Neither is Mother Jones. Which is exactly why, despite the challenges we face, we just took a big gulp and [joined forces]( with the Center for Investigative Reporting, which creates the amazing podcast and public radio show [Reveal]( and other investigative projects. It’s going to be hard making it all work, and we simply can’t afford to fall behind our fundraising targets month after month. If you can part with even just a few bucks, [please support Mother Jones and investigative journalism with an urgently needed donation today](. And thank you so much to everyone who recently has. We’re grateful. [Donate]( Did you enjoy this newsletter? Share it on [Facebook]( and [Twitter](. [Mother Jones]( [Donate]( [Donate Monthly]( [Subscribe]( This message was sent to {EMAIL}. To change the messages you receive from us, you can [edit your email preferences]( or [unsubscribe from all mailings.]( For advertising opportunities see our online [media kit.]( Were you forwarded this email? [Sign up for Mother Jones' newsletters today.]( [www.MotherJones.com]( PO Box 8539, Big Sandy, TX 75755