Posted on 09/21/2007 5:42:36 PM PDT by Stoat
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As I mentioned yesterday, Columbia students on Facebook have been busy organizing a protest of the Iranian nutjob’s visit on Monday.
Here are some details:
WHEN: Monday, September 24, 1:00-3:00
WHERE:
COLUMBIA STUDENTS (w/ Columbia ID’s): On campus, outside Lerner Hall
NON-COLUMBIA STUDENTS: The Columbia Gates. 116th and Broadway - we have secured a permit to stage a protest there.
WHO: YOU and your friends, along with Hillel, Hasbara, StandWithUs, Amcha, ZOA, The David Project, Columbia student groups, concerned citizens. Expected attendance is in the thousands.
WHY: Remember - the world is watching. This is a monumental opportunity to make our voices heard. Generations will ask us, What did we do to protest? Where were we?
NEED A RIDE?
Hasbara Fellowships will be organizing busses from various campuses and points around the city. They are planning to provide busses from: NYU, Rutgers, Baruch, Queens, Hofstra, Brooklyn, and from the earlier rally in front of the UN. YU and Stern students probably have their own busses, ask around. We also need people to step up and be campus leaders to organize the bussing and rallying. Please be in touch. More details will be forthcoming.
The Columbia organizers link to this video as a reminder:
And the organizers link to signs here. A few samples:
The campus paper, the Columbia Spectator, reports:
Nearly 50 student leaders and a dozen administrators sat down with University President Lee Bollinger for an hour on Thursday for a passionate yet civil discussion to air concerns about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s scheduled speech on campus on Monday.
When asked by Bollinger, student leaders overwhelmingly agreed that the event was in line with the academic purpose of the University, but several students expressed their disappointment in Bollinger’s handling of the invitation, with many airing concerns about student participation. Meanwhile, students began to solidify plans for a rally on Low Plaza this Monday.
Students’ concerns with the event included the logistics of establishing a rally on campus and the worry that lending Ahmadinejad a podium from which to speak would elevate and legitimize his views. Those in attendance expressed their greatest concerns regarding how students would be involved in the event itself.
“A girl came up to me after [a College Democrats meeting last night]—she was an Iranian student, an Iranian refugee, and she was near tears. She said, ‘I came to Columbia just for this moment, and I can’t believe the event is closed off before I can even register for it,’” Josh Lipsky, CC ’08 and president of the Columbia University College Democrats, said, while expressing his disappointment that only the most well-connected of students had been able to snatch up seats. He called on those in the room to give their seats to underclassmen.
Administrators said that 80 percent of all seats had been reserved for students. For those without a spot, the event will be available via Webcast.
Meanwhile, idiocy abounds. Here’s reason number 9,871 not to send your kid to Columbia:
Christien Tompkins, CC ’08, co-chair of the United Students of Color Council and member of Students Promoting Empowerment and Knowledge, compared the invitation of Ahmadinejad to that of Jim Gilchrist and said he was “disappointed” in Bollinger’s leadership for going out of his way to denounce the Iranian head of state and but not the “racist” founder of the Minutemen Project.
Because, like, opposing illegal immigration is just as bad as calling for the annihilation of Israel, pursuing nuclear revenge, and funding terrorism against American civilians and soldiers.
Live by moral equivalence, die by moral equivalence.
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I left a message that says you should not give him a platform of credibility and if you want to hear what he has to say then go to Iran and listen to him.
How about letting the White House know about just how happy you are that State even issued this thug the clearance to enter the USA? Phone # below. 
White House comments: (202) 456-1111
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Strange no one has asked the leading libs what they think of his visit to Columbia.
Of course it’s a set up/ I’m sure hand picked people will be the only ones there/ I’m POSITIVE the questioning will turn into a Bush Bash Festival. They hate Bush , Iran hates Bush it’s a match made in heaven . Mark my words it’s a set up and Columbia’s Marxist staff and student body will be in agreement with the propaganda midget from Iran ..What a disgrace this will be.
We just need a Rep or 2 with the cojones to ask the right questions of the libs and keep on asking them as they try to dance around and avoid answering them.
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Will do - you are correct on this one, Spirit Of Allegiance. How our enemies must laugh as us when our leaders act so weak. BUMP
done!
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Bump!
Islamic "angels" cannot be be in the presence of dogs. There are no canine house pets allowed. Any dog in an Islamic community is just a feral scavenger.
Thanks.
THANK YOU MICHELLE !! -— BUMP — If you are within 2000 MILES of Columbia U you GOTTA be there for this ! I wish I could be there !!
David
[Mrs T]
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