‘We need to build a movement to fight back,’ Grant Miner told the crowd
Grant Miner, a Columbia University graduate student who was expelled earlier this month for overtaking Hamilton Hall, gave a speech on campus on Thursday, telling anti-Israel protesters they had to “fight back.”
Miner, the president of Columbia’s graduate student union, Student Workers of Columbia, led a chant before giving the speech on the steps of Low Library, an administrative building. The union organized the protest, demanding “No research cuts. No ICE. No censorship. No layoffs.”
“Our workers, our students, our community members both in the campus and outside the campus are under attack, and we need to build a movement to fight back,” Miner said through a megaphone to…
