Another Take: University protests spread across the US
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Every Saturday, we revisit a story from the archives. This originally aired on May 1st, 2024. None of the dates, titles, or other references from that time have been changed.
Pro-Palestine encampments and protests at universities continue to spread across the US. Students at Columbia University have been threatened with expulsion and arrest. The Take spoke with Mariam Said, an alumna of Columbia, for her advice to student activists.
In this episode:
- Mariam Said, Vice-President of the Barenboim-Said Foundation
Episode credits:
This episode was updated by Sarí el-Khalili. The original production team was David Enders, Sonia Bhagat, Ashish Malhotra, Catherine Nouhan, and our host Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, it's Saril Khalili, a senior producer with the take. |
| 0:14.0 | And this is another take, stories from the archives that are back in the news. |
| 0:19.0 | Columbia University President Manus Shafiq has stepped down |
| 0:23.7 | just months after the campus was shaken by protests |
| 0:27.5 | over the war in Gaza. |
| 0:32.1 | Shafiq came under fire for how she handled |
| 0:35.1 | those protests and the divisions on campus. |
| 0:38.6 | As they were happening, we spoke to Mariam Saeed, the wife of the late literary critic |
| 0:44.0 | and Palestinian scholar Edward Saeed. |
| 0:47.9 | Miriam is also a Columbia alum, and she gave us some perspective on the student activist |
| 0:53.7 | movement last spring. |
| 0:56.0 | Here's that episode now, but remember, none of the dates or other references have changed |
| 1:01.0 | from May 1st of this year when it originally aired. Today on the take, |
| 1:17.9 | Columbia University continues its crackdown on student protests. |
| 1:23.5 | Overnight, campus protests escalating. |
| 1:29.7 | Demonstrators occupying a building at Columbia University. |
| 1:34.3 | This has to be resolved. |
| 1:37.7 | We speak to one prominent Columbia graduate with some perspective on what's happening now. |
| 1:45.2 | I'm Malika Bilal, and this is The Take. |
| 1:55.6 | Protests in support of Palestine at college campuses across the United States continue to grow. |
| 2:02.7 | Violence broke out on the UCLA campus as a group of Israel supporters attacked the student |
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