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🗓️ 12 May 2024
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With a long history of activism, Pomona College students live up to their reputation of never backing down from mobilizing against oppression. We conducted a brief interview with a PR spokesperson for the Pomona Divest Apartheid, a resilient on-campus pro-Palestinian movement that has only grown more determined and larger in student numbers and support despite the administration's heavy handed initial approach against its own students (and traditions) using local law enforcement as its mercenaries. Their message is simple: their college has no business investing in any entity that supports a genocide. Show them love and support via the links below: https://www.instagram.com/pomonadivestapartheid https://twitter.com/i/flow/login?redirect_after_login=%2FPomonaDfA https://linktr.ee/pomonadivestapartheid https://t.me/s/PDfASolidarityEncampment https://docs.google.com/document/d/15p-PeTkXC0170GF2RHjCWVzYFcfLgyo1wPuAa_PT7g8/edit #Pomona #southerncalifornia #California #columbiauniversity #ucla #uspolitics #universityoftexas #emoryuniversity #stopcopcity #decolonize #antiimperialism #globalaffairs #ceasefire #foreignaffairs #humanrights #israelhamaswar #militaryindustrialcomplex #vietnam #vietnambacklash #antiwarmovement #endwar #ceasefire #ceasefirenow🇵🇸 #militaryindustrialcomplex #blackrock #vanguard #haliburton #boeing #genraldynamics #raytheon #merchantsofdeath #aipac #veteran #veteransforpeace #humanrightswatch #savethechildren #ccr #icj #icc #warcrimes #amnestyinternational
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0:00.0 | Tell us where we are right now, what campus we're at. |
0:07.0 | We're aware of the big names. |
0:08.0 | What in Columbia, UT, Harvard, and colonial outcast, we wanted to see what's happening |
0:14.0 | here in California. |
0:16.0 | So as our first stop, we're at Pomona College. |
0:19.0 | So tell us where we're at though and what's going on here. |
0:23.5 | So we are currently on Marston Quad, which is the big central lawn on Pomona's campus. |
0:31.1 | And originally this lawn is where graduation takes place each year. And for those who don't |
0:37.2 | know about Pomona College, it is the founding member of the Claremont College's consortium. |
0:43.3 | It has the largest endowment of all the undergraduate schools and all the colleges in the consortium. |
0:50.3 | So we are specifically targeting Pomona because they have historically been the sort of informal leader of the directions that the colleges take. |
1:02.2 | So currently we do have an encampment set up. This is actually the second one on the campus. |
1:08.2 | The first one was set up on March 28th, a little bit farther back on the SCC, |
1:15.6 | just in front of the steps. SEC is the big building behind us. And that encampment was up for |
1:21.6 | eight days before being shut down on April 5th, where our president, Gabby Stby Star called riot police from five different police |
1:31.5 | departments to arrest students after she ordered for the mock apartheid wall that had been set up |
1:38.9 | to be removed in preparation for 47 day which we later found out from student government, they had already |
1:46.4 | coordinated with organizers to leave that up while allowing the events to go on. So this was |
1:54.9 | set up Monday of this week and still going strong. Can you go through the timeline of events that took place when the students were arrested? |
2:06.9 | What happened, the aggression, and then the backlash that led to this thing growing? |
2:13.6 | Yeah, so originally the idea for the first encampment was preceded by a referendum that |
2:22.5 | had been taken among the student body where, um, 60% of the student body participated with over 80% |
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