High tension in Columbia, students barricaded on campus: “We will not take steps backwards”

New York — “To the administrators of Columbia University we say this: Do not incite another Kent or Jackson State by bringing soldiers and armed police onto our campus. The blood of the students will be on your hands.” The statement with which the group recalls the worst ghosts of the era of protest Columbia University Apartheid Divest announced that “an independent group has occupied Hind’s Hall, formerly known as Hamilton Hall.”