Panel Discussion: Students vs. the State – Radical Action & the Defense of Liberty

Monday, April 28
8 p.m.
103 Jerome Greene Hall
Columbia Law School
116th St. and Amsterdam

Forty years ago, students at Columbia University and throughout the United States brought major universities to a standstill with massive student protests and strikes that drew world attention to causes such as racism, war and injustice.

Since then, student activists have looked back at the events of 1968 to draw inspiration and learn lessons from their predecessors. What is the role of students in a national or global movement for justice? Was the student movement of the 1960s ultimately successful? How do today’s student activists work to address wrongs of the government and their institutions?

Join us for a conversation between NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman and student activists from both 1968 and today to mark the 40th anniversary of the Columbia student strikes of 1968.

Speakers include:

Donna Lieberman, executive director, New York Civil Liberties Union

Former SDS President Todd Gitlin, professor of journalism and sociology, Columbia University Journalism School; author, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage

Former Weather Underground Member Cathy Wilkerson, author, Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times As a Weatherman

Neni Panourgia, associate professor of anthropology, Columbia University

Current student activists at Columbia University

Co-Sponsored by the NYCLU, Columbia ACLU, Columbia Law ACLU, Columbia Political Union, Columbia Democrats, CU Amnesty International, Columbia College Libertarians, Take Back the Night and Columbia Students for a Sensible Drug Policy.

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