Free the Columbia 100. Keep cops off campus.

The movement protesting U.S. support for Israel’s Gaza War shows no sign of going away.

In fact, it grows larger every day.

Congress members berating a bunch of spineless university presidents won’t stop it.

Those same spineless university presidents calling cops to campus, as Columbia’s president did yesterday, won’t stop it.

Columbia has too long a history of student protest for justice and peace for it to be turned back now.

I still recall the Columbia University take-over of several buildings in 1968 to protest the war, Columbia’s cooperation with war research and it’s planned expansion into the Black community.

Police officers breaking through a student demonstration at Columbia University’s Low Library on April 30, 1968.

Even as a college students thousands of miles way in Los Angeles, we followed and cheered our Columbia cohorts on.

We cheer them on today.