Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org. I'm Ian Masters,

and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news.

We begin with a violent invasion by a pro-Israel mob who came onto the UCLA campus last night

to beat up the pro-Palestinian students and tear down their encampment, while UCLA security,

campus police and the LAPD stood by watching without coming to the aid of the students.

Joining us is a UCLA professor who is ashamed of her university.

Ananya Roy, Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare and Geography,

and Chair in Inequality and Democracy at the University of California, Los Angeles,

where she's also the director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA.

Her latest book is Encountering Poverty, Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World,

and she currently leads a National Science Foundation-funded project,

Housing Justice in Unequal cities, which advances

policies of housing justice in Los Angeles, as well as in other cities around the world.

Then we will speak with Aziz Rana, University Professor of Law and Government at Boston College,

where his research and teaching centers on American constitutional law and political

development, as well as how shifting notions of race, citizenship, and empire have shaped legal

and political ined entity since the founding. He's the author of The Two Faces of American Freedom,

and his new book, Just Out is The Constitutional Bind, How Americans Came to Idolize a Document

that Fails Them. We will discuss the growing movement on the right to abandon American democracy

while reactionaries like Governor DeSantis are attempting to convene a constitutional convention

under Article 5 of the Constitution to rewrite the Constitution from scratch to the liking

of the Koch brothers who have been funding the effort. With Americans on the left hoping the

...