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Anna Oakes

New York

Audio Producer and Journalist at Freelance

Freelance reporter in NY, grad student @columbiajourn | Bot Love with @radiotopia 🤖 Signal: annao.06

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Articles

  • A Crown Heights Building's Rat Infestation Gets a Livestream

    6 days ago | hellgatenyc.com | Anna Oakes

    10:08 AM EDT on June 02, 2025 Adam Schleser has lived in the six-building Jewish Hospital complex in Crown Heights since the summer of 2018, and in his current, ground-floor one-bedroom since the fall of 2020. Schleser said that the apartment had some unaddressed noise issues—but the rent stabilization and enjoyable neighborhood made up for that. Then, in mid-October 2024, Schleser began hearing what he soon realized were rats in his walls.

  • Columbia and NYPD Crush Student Library Occupation Supporting Palestine

    1 month ago | hellgatenyc.com | Anna Oakes

    On Wednesday evening, NYPD officials stormed Columbia University's campus and conducted mass arrests of pro-Palestine protesters, several hours after the activists had occupied a reading room of the university's Butler Library ahead of finals week.

  • After Mohsen Mahdawi’s Release, What’s Next for Other Detained International Students?

    1 month ago | documentedny.com | Meghnad Bose |Anna Oakes

    Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia University and a U.S. green card holder, walked free from federal custody last Wednesday afternoon and was welcomed by a crowd of supporters outside a Vermont courthouse.

  • 'I Won't Wear Any Columbia Gear. I Feel Ashamed'

    2 months ago | hellgatenyc.com | Anna Oakes

    8:42 AM EDT on March 12, 2025 On Tuesday around noon, members of a coalition of dozens of Jewish student groups gathered on the northern steps of the Columbia University campus to protest the unlawful detention of Mahmoud Khalil by federal agents, and the university's complicity and lackluster response. The campus, which has been closed to the public since last year's student encampment, has been dotted with fences since Khalil's arrest on Saturday.

  • Universities are continuing to retaliate against staff for participating in Gaza campus protests

    Dec 10, 2024 | mondoweiss.net | Claudia Gohn |Anna Oakes

    Clara C. began working at Columbia University one month after the start of the genocide in Gaza in October 2023. She was hired in the Germanic Languages Department as a Department Assistant. Like many incoming members of the Columbia community, she had high hopes for her time at the university.

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