There was never revolutionary potential in the Liberated Zone. I wrote in April that there were always two likely outcomes: that Martha Pollack would dismantle the encampment outright, as police did at…
Tag: Encampment
WILSON | Ghosts of the Encampment
“Yet there is no avoiding time, the sea of time, the sea of memory and forgetfulness, the years of promise, gone and unrecoverable, of the land almost allowed to claim its better…
SCHWARZ | Reflections on the Cornell Encampment
My Encampment Visits I have been to the Cornell pro-Palestinian encampment a handful of times, and I have seen nothing that demands dismantling it, especially with end of term approaching. The students…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR | The Encampment is a Repeat of History
To the Editor: Re: “Students Stage Pro-Palestine Encampment on the Arts Quad” (news, April 25) 35 years ago I was involved in another divestment movement at Cornell — that of divesting from…
Elfbar Ideology, Pt. IV: The Encampment at the End of History
This week, President Biden signed a bipartisan military aid bill that would send $26bn to Israel. The day after, the Coalition for Mutual Liberation claimed a portion of our campus’ Arts Quad…