Leftist filmmaker Michael Moore said that far-left student protests have every right to “take over buildings,” claiming that it is a non-violent disruption.
In his latest episode on “Rumble with Michael Moore,” – the documentary applauded students in the encampment for “taking a stand.”
Moore defended the action of taking over school buildings by comparing the protests to the 1936 Flint sit-down strike, during which General Motors workers at Fisher Body No. 1 demanded their union, United Auto Workers (UAW), be recognized.
“As I think this is just gonna continue across the country, I hope it continues,” Moore said.
“I applaud every student who’s taking a stand on their campus at graduation, whatever.”
“This is the purpose of a democracy is to be able to address your grievances, to assemble, to have free speech, and to disrupt. Yes disrupt, non-violently disrupt,” Moore stated.
“And when I’m talking about non-violence I’m not talking about — you do have the right to take over the administration building,” he added.
“I’ll tell you, just speaking from Flint, we would have no UAW, no Auto Workers Union if back in the 30s the auto workers, including my uncle, had not taken over the factories,” Moore said.
“They broke windows, they locked all the doors. They kept all the police and the National Guard out for 44 straight days in the middle of winter, until they won the right to be recognized by General Motors and to be paid a living wage,” he continued.
“That only happened because they took over the factories.”
Moore reiterated that taking over buildings is not violence and thanked two anonymous protesters who helped him into the encampments around NYC’s schools.
“Yes, you have to take over buildings. That is not violence,” he said.
“My thanks to Angie and Donald, a couple of anonymous people that I don’t want to say their names out loud because they were able to sneak into places on the campuses that I guess we weren’t supposed to be in because we’d be trespassing on publicly owned property, no less.”
“But the students are all so cool. So wanting their story told and they know that they were just getting a raw deal from the media,” Moore added.
“And I’m telling you go in there and it’s all these Palestinian students, and all these Jewish students Jewish and Palestinian students working together to stop this war,” Moore stated.
Last month, Students at Columbia University demanded their university divest from companies connected to Israel, which led to arrests and sparing even more nationwide protests.
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