1968 SDS Organizer Eric Mann To Talk About 1968 Columbia Strike In Brooklyn On April 23, 2018

Students protest Columbia U.'s institutional racism and IDA membership in 1968 

On the Upper West Side fifty years ago, a political alliance of Harlem and Morningside Heights community activists and student supporters of Columbia's Students' Afro-American Society [SAS] and Columbia SDS non-violently occupied Hamilton Hall and other Columbia University buildings in late April and May 1968; and hundreds of Columbia and Barnard students were either brutalized or arrested when the Columbia administration  twice requested that the Lindsay administration order its Tactical Patrol Force [TPF] of cops to clear the campus of demonstrators.

At The Brooklyn Commons (388 Atlantic Avenue) on Monday, April 23, 2018 between 7 and 9:30 p.m., Eric Mann, in conversation with Komozi Woodard and Channing Martinez, will be giving a talk on the Columbia Strike of 1968, in which he played an active role as an SDS national organizer, titled "The Battle for Historical Interpretation With Lessons For Today's Movement."   Requested ticket price for this event is $6 to $15 per person, but no one will be turned away for inability to pay.