We were there from the beginning. Ted Schmiedeler, WKCR radio station manager, and I, Lara-Nour Walton, Reporting Deputy of Columbia Daily Spectator’s audio team, appeared at dawn on April 17 to watch as students in solidarity with Gaza made history — methodically pitching 50-some matching green tents on Columbia’s East Butler Lawn. In the next weeks, we remained in place, documenting the astounding growth of an anti-war movement and the following NYPD crackdown — authorised by the Columbia University administration, Board of Trustees, and non-Columbia affiliated billionaires. The April 19 mas…