The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/coalition-for-mutual-liberation/)
Black Students United said the University is not providing due process in an international graduate student’s suspension since administrators refuse to bargain with the Cornell Graduate Students Union.
The protesters were identified through video and photographic evidence tying them to a Sept. 18 career fair disruption.
After the University banned a pro-Palestinian international student from campus on Monday, members of the Cornell community have rallied and petitioned for the suspension to be reversed.
A pro-Palestinian international student has been barred from campus after participating in a disruption of a career fair attended by defense contractors L3Harris and Boeing.
Over 100 pro-Palestine protesters confronted Boeing at the Human Capital and Human Relations Career Fair, “charging” the company with “aiding and abetting human rights violations, war crimes and genocide.”
Protesters from The Coalition for Mutual Liberation marched from Ho Plaza into Klarman Hall on Monday afternoon, chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” and “From the sea to the river, Palestine will live forever.”
While Monday’s protest was centered around Palestine, it also touched on the ongoing labor dispute between United Auto Workers Local 2300 — the union representing University food service, custodial, maintenance and other workers — and the University.
Approximately 150 protesters from The Coalition for Mutual Liberation filled Klarman Hall and urged the University to divest from weapons manufacturers and agree to the United Auto Workers Local 2300 demands.
Pro-Palestine graduates walked out of President Martha Pollack’s final commencement speeches.
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 Columbia and UCLA, or that she would trust in the existing cultural order to prevent the demonstration from reaching any sort of leveraged position in negotiations. Pollack’s stall tactics succeeded — ahead of the summer recess, the Coalition for Mutual Liberation called an end to the encampment last week.
That my piece received heartfelt recognition from within and outside of the encampment should indicate some acceptance by proponents of the Liberated Zone that the demonstration would fail. Did it mean nothing, then? Was it a disingenuous attempt by privileged Ivy League students to virtue signal, with little concern for its success?
The movement pushing for Cornell to divest from companies engaging in “morally reprehensible activities” in Gaza was a central theme of the Spring 2024 semester.