The eviction notice said the students “reserve the right to seize ALL occupied and dispossessed lands now occupied and/or owned” by UNM.
University of New Mexico students marched through campus Monday afternoon chanting “indigenous land” and carrying signs reading “FUCK COLUMBUS” in order to protest Columbus Day.
In an exclusive video obtained by Campus Reform, around 40 student protesters carried banners proclaiming “this land is stolen” and “fuck Columbus” through campus to the president’s house, where they hung eviction notices on the president’s fence.
“If the colonial occupation and dispossession of indigenous lands continues, we reserve the right to seize ALL occupied and dispossessed lands now occupied and/or owned by the University of New Mexico,” the eviction notice reads. “We cannot be responsible for property or persons remaining on these lands.”
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