Why Divestment Is At the Core of Student Protests

Notes from America with Kai Wright

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🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This spring, more than 150 college campuses saw anti-war protests with demonstrators calling for their schools to divest from companies doing business in Israel’s occupied territories.

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0:00.0	We're in the middle of finals, but we're here and we're camping out and we're condemning our
0:06.6	university who continuously funds and supports and is complicit in this genocide.
0:12.0	This is something that me and all other Palestinians will never turn their back on.
0:15.8	We're here and we're not leaving.
0:17.8	I will stay here for three weeks if I have to.
0:19.5	I will quit my job.
0:20.5	They cannot take us down.
0:22.3	If we are kicked out, we will not stay out. We're going to find
0:26.7	a way to resist.
0:28.3	No movement really succeeds unless they're young people involved in it. The people want something new, the people are tired of just standing around.
0:35.6	We have woken up and we've seen how Congress and Biden are about to send 14 billion dollars in aid for weapons to Israel so we have to just
0:46.4	take matters into our own hands and we're just getting started we're just
0:49.8	getting started. We're justin' justified. When people are It's notes from America. I'm Kai Wright.
1:15.0	It's notes from America. I'm Kai Wright. Welcome to the show.
1:19.0	On April 17th, hundreds of students at Columbia University created what they called a Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
1:26.7	I don't have to tell you what's happened since then. Encampments at at least 160 schools around the world,
1:33.7	university administrators calling Riot cops
1:36.4	on their own students, daily headlines
1:39.0	with everybody from President Biden to McLlemore weighing in.
1:43.0	It is safe to say, these students have made themselves heard.
1:47.3	And yet, for all the talk about the protests, I'm not sure we've heard quite enough
1:52.1	about the actual ideas the students put forth or the history and context around those ideas.
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