Protesters want schools to divest from Israel. How would that work?
The Indicator from Planet Money
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🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Today, we unpack what that means and how divestment would work. Plus, we hear from an expert who explains why divestment might not have the effect that many believe.
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| 0:00.0 | NPR. This is the indicator for Planet Money, I'm Adrian Ma, and I'm Darien Woods. |
| 0:15.9 | This morning another campus protest was broken out. |
| 0:19.8 | Police in Los Angeles cleared out a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA arresting |
| 0:29.0 | hundreds of people demonstrating against Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza. |
| 0:34.0 | And this is just one of the latest examples of attention that's |
| 0:36.7 | roiling campuses across the country. |
| 0:39.0 | And while the places and details might vary, |
| 0:41.0 | there's a consistent theme across all these protests, and that's a call for divestment. |
| 0:46.0 | What do we want? |
| 0:47.2 | That's what do we want it? |
| 0:49.2 | Now! |
| 0:50.2 | And if we don't get it! |
| 0:51.9 | Shut it down! Shut it down. |
| 0:54.0 | Today on the show, we unpack that term, divestment, |
| 0:58.0 | what it means, how or even if it can work. |
| 1:03.2 | And we hear from an expert who explains why divestment might not have the effect |
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