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NPR News: 04-29-2024 7PM EDT

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🗓️ 29 April 2024

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NPR News: 04-29-2024 7PM EDT

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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear.

0:23.6

As protests and arrests continue on college campuses nationwide over Israel's war on Hamas

0:29.3

and Gaza tensions remain high, police today have been arresting students on the campus of

0:34.8

the University of Texas at Austin. At Columbia in New York, students are being suspended

0:39.8

for refusing to disperse from a student encampment there.

0:43.0

Most of the student demonstrations have been peaceful

0:45.1

decrying Israel's killing of Palestinian civilians,

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though scuffles have broken out between the protesters and Israel supporters.

0:51.8

There have also been protests at Cal Poly in Humboldt.

0:54.3

Senior Zachary Meyer whose Jewish says he supports peaceful protests.

0:57.8

This is all just a call for peace and I think if anyone is calling for the death of someone, they're either backed up against the wall or not speaking on behalf of the core of this protest.

1:10.2

Many of the student demonstrators are demanding their university's cut financial ties with Israel.

1:15.0

Vice President Kamala Harris kicked off a swing-state tour in Atlanta with six months until election day.

1:21.0

As W-A-B-E-S-M-Greenglass explains,

1:24.6

Harris is looking to engage a key constituency black voters.

1:28.0

Harris highlighted efforts to close the racial wealth gap,

1:30.9

bolster minority entrepreneurship, and stitch together black communities

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