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Academic workers rally after Columbia union president is expelled

An 'assault on First Amendment rights'

BY DUNCAN FREEMAN
Posted 3/21/25

Faced with a threat from the Trump administration of losing $400 million in federal funds, Columbia University last week expelled the president of the Student Workers of Columbia union. 

Hundreds of union members and their backers and advocates responded by holding a public rally outside Columbia’s Studebaker Building on West 131st Street Friday to denounce what they called “repression” by university officials. 

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