Thousands of U.S. Students Arrested While Israel Invades Rafah
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 9 May 2024
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Summary
In a massive, nationally coordinated crackdown, the United States has arrested nearly 3,000 U.S. students in the last week. Many have been beaten, pepper sprayed, and tear gassed; expelled from their housing; and many will be expelled from their university altogether. Using U.S. bombs and missiles, the Israeli military has launched a devastating assault on people in Rafah—where more than one million Palestinians took refuge from previous Israeli bombing.
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, and Manolo De Los Santos, researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and founder and executive director of The People’s Forum in New York.
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| 0:00.0 | In a massive nationally coordinated crackdown, the United States has arrested more than |
| 0:07.2 | 3,000 students in the past few weeks. |
| 0:11.1 | Many have been beaten, many have been tear gas, pepper sprayed, they've been expelled from |
| 0:16.5 | their housing. |
| 0:18.7 | Many will be expelled from the universities altogether. At the same time, the United States, |
| 0:25.0 | bombs and missiles are being used by the Israeli government to launch a devastating attack on |
| 0:31.5 | Rafa, a city in South Gaza, where more than a million Palestinians have taken refuge. |
| 0:38.3 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded |
| 0:45.3 | impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:18.5 | Today we're talking with Leanne Fulihon. She is a Palestinian organizer with the Shut |
| 1:23.9 | It Down for Palestine Coalition. She's a popular educator organizer and the education director at the People's Forum, and she |
| 1:32.9 | is an editor at 1804 Books. |
| 1:36.3 | We're also speaking with Manolo de Los Santos. |
| 1:39.2 | He's a researcher at Tri-Continental Institute for Social Research, and he is a founder and executive director |
| 1:46.3 | of the People's Forum. Manolo, Leanne, welcome back. Thanks for having us. Good to be back with you, |
| 1:52.1 | Brian. Thank you for joining Leanne and Manolo. We were in the streets again last night. Manolo, you |
| 1:59.3 | were targeted for arrest again by the NYPD. The New York Post |
| 2:04.4 | ran a major story about it. Again, they got most of the facts wrong, but it is the New York Post |
| 2:09.7 | after all, so nothing surprising there. Layan, you were at the Fashion Institute of Technology later in the |
| 2:16.0 | evening. That was the last encampment that had not |
| 2:19.3 | yet been shut down by the police, but it too was raided. More than 20 people, I believe, were |
| 2:25.4 | arrested. I want to start with a clip of the police crackdown last night at FIT, and then I want to |
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