Student Uprising Spreads as US & Israel Plan Rafah Invasion
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 25 April 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
As the Pentagon and U.S. elite provide Israel more weaponry and urge a Mosul, Iraq-style mass demolition in Rafah, protest encampments on college campuses are erupting nationwide. And in the face of evictions from student housing, arrests, threats of bringing in the National Guard, and more repression, students are standing strong for the Palestinian people.
Brian Becker is joined by Layan Sima Fuleihan, a Palestinian organizer with the Shut It Down for Palestine coalition, a popular educator, organizer, the Education Director at The People’s Forum, and an editor at 1804 Books.
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| 0:00.0 | We have two Americas. In the last week and behind the scenes, the Pentagon is working with Israel to carry out the plan for the invasion of Rafa. |
| 0:12.5 | And at the same time, colleges and universities have erupted in mass protests, and they are spreading throughout the United States. |
| 0:21.6 | These are protests in support of the Palestinian people. |
| 0:26.0 | We need a new system. |
| 0:28.1 | We need a new society. |
| 0:30.0 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:34.3 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:05.5 | Today we're talking with Leanne Fulihon. She is a Palestinian organizer with the Shut It Down for Palestine Coalition. |
| 1:13.8 | She's also a popular educator organizer and the education director at the People's Forum. |
| 1:20.3 | She is also an editor at 1804 Books. Layan, welcome back to the Socialist Program. |
| 1:26.4 | Thanks so much for having me back. |
| 1:28.2 | Thank you. |
| 1:29.2 | Layan, you have been at Columbia University. |
| 1:32.2 | You have been in the streets. |
| 1:33.8 | People in the thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people all over the country, including |
| 1:38.9 | here in New York, at Columbia, there are other campuses, too. |
| 1:43.4 | NYU, mass arrest at NYU. |
| 1:45.6 | There were mass arrests at Columbia. |
| 1:48.1 | The university threatened last night to told the student negotiators, |
| 1:52.5 | we're going to bring in the National Guard against you, |
| 1:55.9 | against their own students. |
| 1:57.0 | And this is 54 years after the massacre by the National Guard of students at Kent State |
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