Emmaline Bennett

Host, New Books Network

United States

I am a freelance journalist on politics, society, and culture. I also conduct book interviews for the New Books Network.

Portfolio
The Activist
05/25/2021
"No education can teach you so much about the potential of collective action"

These reflections were written to debrief a partially successful tuition strike campaign organized by the Columbia-Barnard YDSA chapter during the 2020-2021 academic year. Organized in exceptional circumstances, and attaining a level of support never before seen in a tuition strike, our campaign was largely groundbreaking. As a result, we had to figure out a lot of things along the way. It is our hope in writing these reflections that those who wish to carry out tuition strikes on their...

Jacobin
12/16/2020
Columbia University's Tuition Strike Is Only the Beginning

Three thousand students at Columbia University have pledged to begin a tuition strike next semester if administrators do not concede to their demands. The strike is part of the nationwide student movement to end university austerity, resist rising student debt, and democratize the university.

The Activist
11/04/2020
The Time to Fight

A member of YDSA's leadership weighs in on what the drawn-out election will mean and how we should proceed.

Columbia Daily Spectator
A tuition strike for a democratized university

Columbia students are organizing the largest tuition strike in U.S. history. In the past two weeks alone, over 3,000 students have joined the effort, and the number of committed strikers continues to grow rapidly. But it's not just the sheer scale of the tuition strike that makes it so unprecedented-it's also the nature of the demands themselves.

Columbia Daily Spectator
Rethinking 'safety' on and off campus

The massive wave of protests this past summer following the murder of George Floyd and other victims of police brutality-the largest movement in U.S. history-has renewed discussions on the role of police and prisons in our society and the interconnections between incarceration, policing, and systemic racism.

Columbia Daily Spectator
Students pay when Columbia cuts costs on health care

You have probably wondered what would happen if you were to contract COVID-19 tomorrow. What kind of care would you require, and would you receive it? And-a question causing as much stress as the illness itself for many-would you be able to pay for it?

Columbia Daily Spectator
Fighting for housing justice at Columbia

Last semester, the crisis unleashed by the pandemic underscored how Columbia not only serves the role of educational institution and employer for its students and workers but also functions as a landlord for over 10,000 Columbia affiliates-with all of the forms of power over students' and employees' lives that this status implies.