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Big Blue Marble

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8. She was a guest of the protestors.

Thu May 2, 2024, 12:43 AM

May 2

As an invitee, she had a right to be on the property.

"Ms. Fithian, 63, was not at Columbia when the police arrived on Tuesday night and made dozens of arrests. She had returned to the home where she was staying in New York, she said in an interview Tuesday night"

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"Ms. Fithian said videos and photos of her on campus were being misinterpreted by the police and “right-wing” critics.
“‘Oh, the terrorist, the professional agitator,’” Ms. Fithian said. “This has happened so many times in my life. They love to hate me.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/nyregion/columbia-university-protest-consultant-lisa-fithian.html

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The 63-Year-Old Career Activist Among the Protesters at Columbia , cops call her a "professional agitator" [View all] BlueWaveNeverEnd May 1 OP

Is she a student. bottomofthehill May 1 #1

Wait... Big Blue Marble May 1 #2

You missed a bit bottomofthehill May 1 #3

is she an American? Big Blue Marble May 2 #5

columbia is a private college moonshinegnomie May 2 #7

She was a guest of the protestors. Big Blue Marble May 2 #8

it doesnt matter of shes a guest of the protestors or not moonshinegnomie May 2 #10

What are you saying? Big Blue Marble May 2 #25

she doesn have that right moonshinegnomie May 2 #33

Where does it say she was illegally on campus? Big Blue Marble May 2 #40

Correct. She can protest on public property wherever she wants. bottomofthehill May 2 #12

columbia isnt public property moonshinegnomie May 2 #14

Yes, agree totally. bottomofthehill May 2 #45

I don't think that applies before they made that rule scipan May 2 #46

What is shocking to me iemanja May 2 #21

I missed nothing. I posted the NYT's article that mentioned Big Blue Marble May 2 #22

Yes what's the problem? Sounds like MotownPgh May 2 #39

Occupy was beyond stupid NanaCat May 2 #16

It was about WHERE they set up camp PuraVidaDreamin May 2 #20

So if protesters take action and challenge the establishment. Big Blue Marble May 2 #27

Occupy changed the narrative. Voltaire2 May 2 #30

The older woman "professional left wing agitator" is such an Upper West Side character type that Prairie Gates May 1 #4

Message auto-removed Name removed May 2 #6

The words "agitator" or "professional agitator".., A HERETIC I AM May 2 #9

except thats what she does moonshinegnomie May 2 #11

Kind of the definition bottomofthehill May 2 #13

That's what protesting is about, fundamentally. From SNCC to today. David__77 May 2 #15

SNCC wouldn't have been so stupid as to 'occupy' NanaCat May 2 #17

the same conservative impulse defending the status quo now iemanja May 2 #24

And? Why is that a bad thing? obamanut2012 May 2 #32

Exactly. iemanja May 2 #23

Of course she's there. maxsolomon May 2 #18

I am shocked at the amount of what Cuthbert Allgood May 2 #19

Scratch a liberal... WhiskeyGrinder May 2 #26

Seriously obamanut2012 May 2 #35

I'm a Democrat Ex Lurker May 2 #38

I never said it did -- and I don't appreciate your accusing me of that obamanut2012 May 3 #47

Yes I feel completely disoriented here. N/T Big Blue Marble May 2 #41

EEEEK!! A 63 year old non student, civil rights activist, is scary!! Ping Tung May 2 #28

Lisa Fithian - outside agitator? Let's Learn from Phil Ochs OutNow May 2 #29

Plus ca change.... Voltaire2 May 2 #31

"We're trying to end a genocide....." BlueTsunami2018 May 2 #34

U of Minn is making some changes because of them. Cuthbert Allgood May 2 #36

Based on your logic, we would still be part of the Commonwealth. Big Blue Marble May 2 #42

I'm down with all of that. BlueTsunami2018 May 2 #44

If authorities call you a "professional agitator" then you must be doing something right. ZonkerHarris May 2 #37

Yup, they are words authoritarians use obamanut2012 May 2 #43