Gaza Solidarity Encampments Continue Spreading + Weekend Film Debut at Cinema Village
As Gaza protest encampments continued to spread across the nation, yesterday, The Indypendent’s video team was on the ground covering three different encampments here in New York City.
City College in Harlem became the first CUNY campus to erect an encampment yesterday afternoon. When the cops came to dismantle the protest, students and faculty successfully blocked them. In one dramatic scene, the faculty locked arms and chanted at the police, “To get to our students, you'll have to get through us!”
City College Pushes Back
By Neil Constantine
At The New School, their Gaza encampment in the university’s main academic building entered its fifth day. Against a beautiful photo/video montage, we hear a student leader explain the core demands of their protest.
A Report from The New School’s Liberated Zone
By Ash Marinaccio
The Fashion Institute of Technology in Lower Manhattan is hardly a hotbed of student protest. But on Thursday afternoon an encampment went up before it was swept away by campus cops a few hours later while outraged students continued demonstrating.
Gaza Protest Movement Comes to FIT
By Ellen Davidson
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Movie Alert!
Our friends at Cinema Libre are debuting two powerful new films today at Cinema Village Theater located at 22 East 12th Street. The first, I Am Gitmo, brings to life the horror of the infamous prison camp through the story of a Muslim schoolteacher who is taken from his home and subjected to years of torture even as he professes his innocence. The second, Beyond the Raging Sea, follows two Egyptian athletes as they compete in a 3,000-mile row across the Atlantic Ocean before it takes a harrowing turn that mirrors the ordeal of displaced persons. Philippe Diaz, the director of I Am Gitmo, will be on hand for Q&A sessions each of the next three days.
