Parsing The Pro-Palestinian Protests On Campuses Across The Country

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🗓️ 30 April 2024

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Pro-Palestinian protests and encampments have sprung up on college campuses across the country.

Hundreds of students and professors have been arrested. Calls for universities to end their ties to Israel and for the U.S. to negotiate a ceasefire are growing.

We check in on the protests across the country and what they tell us about how equipped colleges and universities are to deal with student protests.

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0:00.0	You know the names of the primary players, Jimmy Carter.
0:03.0	Our country is not strong anymore.
0:04.5	Ronald Reagan. We have perverted our Constitution.
0:07.1	Gerald Ford. But how they acted, it's just about the opposite of their popular images.
0:12.8	Those are the seeds of the culture war.
0:17.2	Landslide, how a presidential race led to today's political divide.
0:21.2	Subscribe now to Landslide, part of the NPR Network.
0:24.0	Hundreds have now been arrested at college campuses across the country as pro-Palestinian
0:37.0	protests grow.
0:39.9	By attempting to break down the encampment to try to arrest people and our
0:48.1	movement we made it clear and the students here made it clear that we're not
0:51.4	going to accept that policy of repression and censorship.
0:55.0	Last night more than 100 were arrested at the University of Texas at Austin
1:00.0	where police clashed with protesters.
1:02.0	Officials said the charges could include
1:04.2	resisting arrest and assault and last week more than a hundred protesters were
1:09.2	arrested at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.
1:13.2	Pro-Palestinian protests and encampments began on April 17th at Columbia University in New York.
1:19.6	Columbia President Minos Chafique has faced calls to step down from advocates on both sides of the conflict
1:25.6	and from members of Congress, including Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, who held a press conference
1:31.0	at Columbia calling for her resignation.
1:34.0	Today, we'll discuss the university responses to protests across the country
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