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<h1 class="post-title published">[\U0001f6a8FLOOD BUTLER NOW]
DISRUPTION UNTIL DIVESTMENT</h1>
<h3 class="subtitle">FLOOD BUTLER LIBRARY RIGHT NOW, RECLAIMED
AS THE BASEL AL-ARAJ POPULAR UNIVERSITY!!</h3>
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<p><span>Over 100 people have just flooded Butler Library and
renamed it the </span><strong>Basel Al-Araj Popular
University</strong><span>. The flood shows that as long as
Columbia funds and profits from imperialist violence, the
people will continue to disrupt Columbia's profits and
legitimacy. Repression breeds resistance - if Columbia
escalates repression, the people will continue to escalate
disruptions on this campus.</span></p>
<p>Today, the people refuse the name \u201cButler Library,\u201d which
honors Nicholas Murray Butler, a shameless Nazi sympathizer
and president of Columbia University from 1902 to 1945.
During his presidency, Butler welcomed Nazi ambassadors to
campus with open arms, limited the number of Jewish people
who could attend Columbia, and expelled students who
protested against Columbia's ties with the Nazis. As an
institution embedded in US imperialism, Columbia has always
been propped up by genocidal profits as it is now with its
mass investments in the killings of hundreds of thousands of
Palestinian people.</p>
<p>The people renamed the library today to honor the martyred
Palestinian revolutionary Basel al-Araj, whose writings on
the Palestinian resistance and on the nature of war guide
revolutionaries around the world today. Al-Araj teaches us
that anti-imperialist struggles are protracted, and victory
is facilitated by our patience and endurance. We may not win
our demands quickly, but our victory is inevitable when we
patiently learn from each action, improving our security and
tactics and incorporating more people into the struggle
through them. Al-Araj also reminds us that intellectuals
must directly engage in the struggle against oppression -
study alone will render the role of intellectuals obsolete.
Finally, he teaches us the importance of combating the
defeatism spread by imperialist propaganda, which obscures
the effectiveness of armed struggles carried out by
oppressed peoples and maintains the illusion of
imperialism\u2019s immunity against them. We must oppose this by
continuing to propagate the successes of the heroic
Palestinian armed resistance in weakening Israel and US
imperialism and inspiring anti-imperialist struggles around
the world.</p>
<p>The Popular University for Gaza is a radical transformation
of the university from a site of elite knowledge production
into a base for struggle, collective education, and
resistance against the institutions that fund, legitimize,
and profit from genocide. Through sit-ins, encampments, and
the disruption of daily operations, it exerts sustained
pressure on university administrations to divest from the
Zionist entity and forces the reality of genocide in Gaza
into public consciousness. At the original Popular
University project in the West Bank, Basel al-Araj taught
about the Palestinian resistance and insisted that knowledge
must serve liberation, not empire. Today, the people at the
Basel Al-Araj Popular University teach each other the
stories our universities refuse to tell. They feed each
other, protect each other, learn with and from each other.
The Popular University is not only a demand for divestment.
It is a living counter-institution, a revolutionary pedagogy
in practice, and a declaration that another university\u2014and
another world\u2014is already in formation.</p>
<p>The people demand:</p>
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<p>FULL FINANCIAL DIVESTMENT FROM ZIONIST OCCUPATION,
APARTHEID, AND GENOCIDE</p>
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<p>ACADEMIC BOYCOTT OF ALL COMPLICIT INSTITUTIONS,
INCLUDING THE CANCELLATION OF THE TEL AVIV GLOBAL CENTER</p>
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<p>COPS AND ICE OFF OUR CAMPUS</p>
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<p>END COLUMBIA\u2019S OCCUPATION OF HARLEM; RETURN LAND TO
HARLEMITES AND OPEN THE GATES!</p>
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<p>AMNESTY FOR ALL STUDENTS, STAFF, FACULTY, AND WORKERS
TARGETED BY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY\u2019S DISCIPLINE</p>
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