00:00Because I think Harvard's a disgrace. I think what they did was a disgrace.
00:12What the government is doing has absolutely nothing to do with security.
00:16It is entirely about repression.
00:30We welcome back our identities.
00:34Hands up!
00:39We got AUP into protest.
00:44What they were doing, when you see the way they took care of events,
00:48when you watch that woman, that horrendous president that ruined the image of Harvard,
00:54maybe permanently, in Congress, in the halls of Congress,
00:58when you take a look at what happened there, it's...
01:04Because I think Harvard's a disgrace.
01:06I think what they did was a disgrace.
01:08They're obviously anti-Semitic.
01:10What do we do?
01:11Stand up right back!
01:12Higher education?
01:14Hands off!
01:15Our identities?
01:16Hands off!
01:18We got in the building right now!
01:23We win!
01:24We win!
01:27Hands off!
01:28Our students?
01:29Hands off!
01:30Freedom of expression?
01:31Hands off!
01:32This is amazing.
01:33When higher education is under attack, what do we do?
01:37Stand up right back!
01:38And when our international students, and our international colleagues who are here on visas,
01:42have it now as a purge, and we need to fight back.
01:45Hands off!
01:46Hands off!
01:47Hands off!
01:48Hands off!
01:49Hands off our students!
01:50We say yes to a free university.
01:53Yes!
01:54Open and accessible to all.
01:56A university where you can get a scientific education that faces up to the environmental catastrophe
02:03we've unleashed on the world.
02:04Yes!
02:05Yes!
02:06We say to a university where you can get an education in history.
02:10Yes!
02:11One that confronts the histories of racism and slavery, exploitation and empire, and of
02:17the people who fought back.
02:19Yes!
02:20These histories are being censored and suppressed by the government today.
02:24Shame!
02:25Even the dead aren't safe.
02:27We say yes to it.
02:28That's a little Walter Benjamin.
02:29We say yes to a university where you can get a political education.
02:37Yes!
02:38Where something's not being taught in the classroom or the laboratory.
02:42If thinking and learning is being foreclosed, students can pitch their tents on the quad
02:48and teach each other and teach their teachers.
02:55What the government is doing has absolutely nothing to do with security.
03:00It is entirely about repression.
03:03That's right!
03:04The US government is using every tool in its massive arsenal to arrest, to detain, to deport
03:13and in the case of universities to defund these institutions simply because they disagree
03:19with US foreign policy and have the humanity, let alone the temerity, to stand up for Palestinian
03:26human rights and oppose a genocide in Gaza.
03:32Fear of speech is authoritarianism.
03:36Fear of freedom is authoritarian.
03:39And it's being done under this false guise of a false definition of anti-Semitism, which,
03:49given the Nazi sympathizers in the administration, is obviously preposterous pretext.
03:55The true goal is to weaponize this ideological orthodoxy, to dismantle the very institutions
04:02that undergird our democracy, courts, lawyers, civil society, and universities.
04:11And to suggest that due process is optional is, again, the hallmark of authoritarianism.
04:20Their strategy depends on testing us and shocking us to see if we will give up.
04:26Their strategy depends on dividing us so we cannot support each other.
04:33Will we let that happen?
04:35No!
04:36Will we stand together?
04:38Yes!
04:39Will we be silenced?
04:40No!
04:41No!
04:42No!
04:43No!
04:44It's up!
04:45No words up!
04:46We want them back!
04:47We want them back!
04:48We're Police def 줄ers.
04:49We want them back!
04:50We know that Donald Trump is disgraceful and shameful.
04:54That's right.
04:55I'm sadden to say that Mayor Eric Adams is disgraceful and shameful.
05:03I'm sad to see law firms like Paul Weiss shrink – no!
05:07be disgraceful and shameful.
05:10I'm sad to see institutions like Columbia shrink when they should have stepped up.
05:16And I saw our Columbia University journalism students.
05:19I want to thank you so much for having the courage to step forward when your president and your leadership let you down.
05:28I'm part of the America that has always fought back and always pushed forward
05:33and always said we will not let this happen while we're on our watch.
05:40And I want to thank all the leaders of the institutions of higher learning coming forward and say you will not erase history.
05:48Our identities?
05:49Hands up!
05:53We got AUP NYT Manhattan chapter.
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