Trump Targets Student Protesters [Preview]
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
On this patrons-only episode, Brian & Layan discuss Trump's executive order to deport student protesters, Netanyahu's visit with Trump next week, Trump’s announcement of plans to completely ethnically cleanse the people of Gaza and why that won’t work, conflict within the administration, Trump’s ridiculous and racist blaming DEI for this week's heartbreaking airplane crash, and more.
Brian Becker is joined by Layan Sima Fuleihan, a Palestinian organizer with the Shut It Down for Palestine coalition, a popular educator, the Education Director at The People’s Forum, and an editor at 1804 Books.
This is a preview of a patrons-only episode. Subscribe at patreon.com/thesocialistprogram to hear the full episode, get access to all our patrons-only content including live Q&A seminars with Brian Becker, and help keep this show on the air.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Socialist Program. |
| 0:04.0 | This is John Prysner, a producer of this show. |
| 0:07.0 | This is a preview of a patrons-only episode. |
| 0:10.0 | Subscribe at patreon.com slash the Socialist Program to hear the full episode, |
| 0:16.0 | get access to all our patrons-only content, including live Q&A seminars with Brian Becker, and help |
| 0:22.5 | keep this show on the air. |
| 0:27.0 | Two weeks into the Trump administration, we are all learning a lot about the priorities and |
| 0:31.9 | strategies of this billionaire government. |
| 0:34.7 | In the last few days, it was announced that Benjamin Netanyahu will come back to |
| 0:38.9 | the United States despite an open warrant for his arrest, and he will make the first foreign state |
| 0:44.8 | visit to the new Trump administration. Trump, on his end, has announced that he wants to |
| 0:50.8 | completely clear out the Palestinian people from Gaza. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm Leanne Fulahan here with Brian Becker, and this is in the news, a segment of the Socialist |
| 1:00.3 | program, a patrons-only show. |
| 1:03.3 | Today we're going to focus on Netanyahu's visit, the status of the ceasefire in Gaza, and |
| 1:08.8 | the efforts of the Trump government to smash the Palestine |
| 1:11.8 | Solidarity Movement in the United States. We will also talk about how this growing movement |
| 1:17.0 | inside the United States remains undeterred, is continuing to mobilize, and is demanding a |
| 1:23.1 | complete end to U.S. aid to the Israeli regime. Brian, we were all in the streets protesting Netanyahu's disgraceful invitation last summer |
| 1:32.9 | to address both houses of Congress. |
| 1:35.6 | It was last summer July 24. |
| 1:38.6 | Thousands of people were in the streets outside of the Capitol building. |
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