gentrification

TOMORROW NIGHT: The Fight to Save West Harlem Continues

As we reported

previously

, Columbia University is planning a significant expansion of its campus; to do so would involve displacing thousands of people and many locally-owned businesses. The

Student Coalition on Expansion and Gentrification

(SCEG) is calling for students and others concerned to attend a public hearing about the proposed expansion tomorrow night:

Students and Community Members Confront Columbia on the Fate of West Harlem

In 1968 both students and community members coordinated two occupations on Columbia University property. These groups chiefly sought two things:

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