“A New Sense of World-Building”: Inside the Student Movement for Gaza
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🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Evergreen State College, in Olympia, Washington, reached a deal with students to work toward divesting from “companies that profit from gross human rights violations and/or the occupation of Palestinian territories.” It is one of the few schools to reach deals with students protesting Israel's war on Gaza as demonstrations spread to more than 154 campuses nationwide.
This week on Intercepted, we bring you a special episode from inside the student movement for Gaza. Prem Thakker, a politics reporter for The Intercept, breaks down the campus protests and students' demands for schools to cut off financial ties with Israel and weapons makers. Thakker is joined by Gillian Goodman, a freelance writer and journalism graduate student at Columbia University. Gillian takes us inside the protest encampment at Columbia, which inspired similar demonstrations nationwide before it was violently dismantled by police.
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| 0:00.0 | The This is intercepted. Welcome to Intercept It. I'm Prem Tucker, a politics reporter for The Intercept, |
| 0:37.6 | bringing you a special episode straight from the campus protests sweeping |
| 0:41.6 | the nation. |
| 0:43.0 | Across the nation and around the clock. |
| 0:47.0 | Shame on you! |
| 0:49.0 | Clashes and arrests from the streets of New York |
| 0:51.0 | to the University of Minnesota to Cal Poly Humboldt. |
| 0:55.0 | From California to Michigan and along the East Coast. |
| 0:59.0 | Over the last few weeks, several universities responded to pro-Palestine and anti-war campus protests |
| 1:05.3 | by unleashing local police forces on students. |
| 1:08.7 | At Columbia University in New York, administrators suspended student protesters |
| 1:12.5 | protesters and authorized a police rate on campus. |
| 1:15.0 | Last week, after negotiations broke down between protest leaders and the |
| 1:19.4 | university, NYPD officers outfitted in riot gear arrested students on mass. |
| 1:25.0 | New York City police burst into a building an encampment at Columbia University occupied |
| 1:29.8 | by pro-Palestinian protesters. |
| 1:32.1 | Police have arrested about 300 people at Columbia and City College of |
| 1:36.1 | New York. Over at the University of California, Los Angeles, police stood by as a pro-Israel |
| 1:41.4 | mob attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment. |
| 1:44.0 | More fireworks exploding in the middle of the tents. |
| 1:47.0 | More fireworks being thrown over the barricade into the middle of the tents. |
| 1:51.0 | More smoke coming from the tents? The next night though, |
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