Q&A: What Project Esther Means for Democratic Rights, and the Socialist Approach to Building Unity in 2025
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
College graduation ceremonies are turning into hotbeds of protest against the complicity of university administrations and the U.S. government in suppressing dissent on college campuses. Project 2025 outlined the plan to repress and suppress pro-Palestinian protest as part of their larger project to crush democracy inside the United States.
Brian Becker and Layan Fuleihan field questions from listeners on these topics and more in this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | College graduation ceremonies are turning into hotbeds of protests against the complicity of university administrations and the U.S. government in suppressing dissent on college campuses. |
| 0:12.7 | Project 2025 outlined the plan to repress and suppress pro-Palestinian protest as part of their larger project to crush democracy inside the United States. |
| 0:23.4 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded |
| 0:29.5 | impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. I'm Leanne Zima Fullahan here with Brian Becker. |
| 1:02.1 | Welcome to this episode of the Socialist Program. |
| 1:05.7 | Today we are going to continue with taking questions from our listeners. |
| 1:10.2 | We started experimenting with this format last week and we're going to keep going with it today. |
| 1:15.7 | Of course, we won't be able to answer all the questions. Many great questions came in. |
| 1:20.5 | And thank you to everyone who's been submitting them. We're going to keep taking them, |
| 1:24.2 | and if you haven't heard your question yet, we might be able to get to it in a future show. |
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| 1:48.7 | Leanne, as you mentioned in the introduction, universities have expelled their students, suspended their |
| 1:55.0 | students, complied with the U.S. government, and failing to protect their students who were being, |
| 2:01.0 | you know, |
| 2:07.7 | having their visas revoked. Again, Columbia University did nothing to support Mahmoud Khalil, |
| 2:12.7 | who was kidnapped and taken to an iced detention center where he still remains in Louisiana. |
| 2:21.0 | They're trying to make it almost impossible to organize real significant protests on college campuses against the genocide. And yet the students have not been defeated. Yes, there may be an ebb in |
| 2:28.6 | terms of activity, but the spirit, the awareness, the consciousness of the students, it's right there. |
| 2:33.8 | And we could see it at |
| 2:34.9 | these graduation ceremonies. We definitely could, Brian. Every graduation ceremony, there's been some |
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