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00:00Whose university? Our university!
00:07The Trump administration is waging a war on college and a war on knowledge.
00:13We are here to display and demand courage and integrity in response.
00:19Now, let's take a step back and ask ourselves,
00:25Should the government decide which students get admitted to college and which get rejected?
00:30No!
00:32But we are unafraid. We are organizing. We are fighting back.
00:39On the other hand, Columbia's shocking surrender to the Trump administration's threats and intimidation is a disgrace.
00:48We don't get it. Shut it down!
00:55Why do autocrats fear higher education?
00:59Why are they so hostile to the free expression of ideas?
01:03Well, universities are threatening to autocrats because we teach independent and critical thinking.
01:09Because we train our students to scrutinize evidence and demand rigor.
01:14And because we teach students to be skeptical of authority, especially our own authority.
01:19If anyone thinks that we can brainwash Columbia students, they've never met a Columbia student.
01:37I would like to end by sharing the words of a Medical Center colleague who asked me to.
01:41She's already lost her position.
01:43She was the diversity director of the genetic counseling graduate program that was eliminated.
01:48She says,
01:50We must not cage to fragility and fear and realize how interconnected we are.
01:55First they came for the pro-Palestinians.
01:58Then they came for all the marginalized DEI people.
02:01Then they came for the scientists.
02:03And now for MESAS.
02:05Who will they come for next?
02:09Let us all see clearly that their goal is oppressing the voices of anyone who threatens their powers.
02:15We must stand up for diversity.
02:18We must stand up for self-governance.
02:20And we must stand up for science.
02:23I can have my freedom.
02:26Really?
02:27Yeah.
02:28Everybody's taking pictures of everyone.
02:30It's a traumatic experience.
02:36Well, what's happening here is of enormous importance not just for Columbia,
02:40but for all universities and for the democracy as well.
02:43So we feel that the pressure that the administration is putting on Columbia
02:48is a very serious threat to freedom of speech, freedom of protest, and the university's role in democracy.
03:04All week we were waiting for some sort of reply from Columbia.
03:08And what came out from the president's office was very disappointing.
03:13And we felt a betrayal of the values that Columbia has historically stood for.
03:18Stand Columbia is the Columbia slogan.
03:22And Columbia didn't stand. It crumpled.
03:43Stand Columbia is the Columbia slogan.
04:03Stand Columbia is the Columbia slogan.
04:06I think Columbia is going back on every ideal that it was built on.
04:11And the thing is they keep preaching about democratic values,
04:15and free speech, and whatever Columbia teaches us, which is quite great.
04:19It's one of the reasons why I applied here.
04:22I love this school. It's why it's so famous.
04:25And every value it seems to uphold is just completely broken.
04:29It's just complete hypocrisy, I think.
04:32And I think it really has to put into question what it's doing, what it's doing for money.
04:38Because normally you would think, and historically college campuses and colleges
04:42always have fought against, for example, the Vietnam War.
04:47Colleges were the reason why the Vietnam War was stopped.
04:50And now we're just bending over backwards to basically a fascist regime.
04:57I was thinking about wearing a mask today because I'm feeling a little under the weather.
05:01I know that a lot of students are wearing masks today in protest,
05:06which I think is a great idea, just for everyone to wear masks.
05:26I hope that the money goes towards a good cause, at least.
05:30If it goes towards the students, if they're going to go and accept this money.
05:34I think that the immediate will to just bend to the government
05:39without a lot of communication with the students
05:44and a lot of seeming empathetic for the students was really difficult to watch.
05:55Well, I think the students are probably going to make some protests.
06:02I think the situation on campus is a little bit testy.