Columbia AAUP calls for vote of no confidence: "The choice of Columbia’s administrators to ignore University statutes..., to have our students violently arrested, and to impose a militarized lockdown of our campus, has irrevocably undermined our trust in them." (text below)

"[T]he decision by the New York Police Department on Tuesday to block journalists from witnessing its raid on Columbia University was a clear infringement of the First Amendment." Handcuffs and Barricades at Columbia, but No Reporters www.nytimes.com/2024…

"A US government smartphone app that tightly limits asylum appointments at the US-Mexico border is stranding vulnerable migrants in Mexico and enriching organised crime groups, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch." www.theguardian.com/…

"More than half of Mexico’s forests are in community and Indigenous hands, a situation unlike anywhere else in the world." www.theguardian.com/…

Press on Columbia campus today