Carolyn Swope, MPH @cbswope
urban planning PhD student @ColumbiaGSAPP | researching the historical production of housing inequities, gentrification, and health Joined January 2017-
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NEW: ICE is filing declarations in multiple cases admitting they don't have power to terminate student status, so students whose student records (SEVIS) are terminated remain in valid status. This means colleges disenrolling students (a majority) are punishing them for no reason.
Columbia's Philosophy Department, where Mohsen Mahdawi is a student, has posted a statement about his detention on their website:
The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government. hrvd.me/ResearchFundin…
How Princeton University is navigating the loss of federal funding npr.org/2025/04/06/nx-…
Trump targets immigrant and campus pro-Palestine left first because it’s perfect wedge issue w/ libs who’ve demonized the same groups. As lib institutions capitulate the repression will generalize. We need leaders to fill the void and lead the fight against the authoritarian turn
Trump targets immigrant and campus pro-Palestine left first because it’s perfect wedge issue w/ libs who’ve demonized the same groups. As lib institutions capitulate the repression will generalize. We need leaders to fill the void and lead the fight against the authoritarian turn
SWC stands by Ranjani Srinivasan, yet another union member targeted by the Trump administration and abandoned by our employer Columbia University. Columbia WAS complicit. Read more:🧵
As Trump strips our rights and makes it hard to live in DC, Mayor Bowser & the landlord lobby are pushing a bill that would make it even harder for renters 📣 RALLY 3/18 at 10am to save TOPA and tenant protections from the Mayor’s RENTAL Act RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/rally-t…
Last week, I was expelled from @Columbia for protesting the U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza. As president of @SW_Columbia , Columbia’s student workers union, I was also fired from my job. The Trump administration is pushing their narrative. Here’s the real story. 🧵

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