College protests over the Israel-Gaza war, Oklahoma tornadoes, vegan cheese drama, and more
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The Washington Post
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🗓️ 29 April 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Anti-war protests continue to rock college campuses. |
| 0:06.0 | The South is experiencing rapid sea level rise, |
| 0:10.0 | and a vegan cheese is causing a real stink. |
| 0:13.5 | That's some of what we'll get to on the seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm Hannah Jewel. It's Monday, April 29th. |
| 0:20.5 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:24.0 | Number one, hundreds more people were arrested at college protests against the Israel-Gazah War. |
| 0:35.0 | At least 900 people have been arrested at protests on college campuses over the last 11 days, |
| 0:41.0 | an encampment at Columbia University and a police crackdown earlier this month has sparked |
| 0:46.2 | a protest movement across the country. Hundreds more arrests were made at protests at Indiana |
| 0:51.9 | University, Northeastern, Arizona State, and other campuses over the weekend. |
| 0:57.0 | The protesters are demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and for their universities to divest or cut financial ties with Israel. |
| 1:05.0 | Here's former Columbia University student Dary Eliza Avila Chevalier, |
| 1:09.5 | who spoke to the Associated Press. |
| 1:11.5 | She's been supporting student demonstrators at |
| 1:13.8 | Columbia. The administration, President Chafique, they could end this today by |
| 1:17.6 | meaning the students demands. They're not unreasonable demands. They've met these |
| 1:20.8 | demands before with regards to South African apartheid divestment with regard to private prison divestment with regard to fossil field divestment or thermal coal divestment. |
| 1:30.0 | And so I think that it's not a matter of if the university is going |
| 1:34.1 | to divest but rather when and for them to continue to hold out in this way it |
| 1:37.7 | only hurts them. |
| 1:51.6 | Number two, World Central Kitchen will resume its operations delivering food in Gaza today. The Food Aid Group founded by Celebrity Chef Jose Andres made the |
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