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i guess the. yeah, that's what i meant. it meant a lot of stuff. the minute we're just waiting for the help from very well that's it from me down. jordan, you can find most more information on our website out here with dot com. my colleague karen johnson will be here in around 30 minutes with much more course of the day's news. the news continues here on tuesday are off of the stream state. you have done so much, and by the i'm counting the costs protests in the us developers, universities divest them israel, how the schools make them money. washington,
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once russia to pay for rebuilding, ukraine must go friends to retaliate. plus, what's the future for pick tone for the american market? comes in with costs for that, which is 0. from being processed to the wall in vietnam and opposing a plus side, south africa. students have long played a crucial role in liberation movements. today, a growing tide is speaking up for thomas fine. so why is sonia darcy with gauze a igniting campuses across the world? i'm mary, i'm false. walked on, this is the street the, the future as possible. the
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we are right now. the victory when carlos is free us from japan to australia via it's me and yemen. what started as an encampment at columbia university in new york 2 weeks ago has turned into a global student movement. the monday and universities divest from israel. is this the peace movement of our generation and can students succeed west so much? public pressure has failed. joining me from the u. s. u. k and australia. to
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discuss this today, all 3 students organizes my mood as of as a palestinian 1st year student at harvard university with the harvard out of occupied palestine, coalition fraser, almost a ph. d student at the university of work with the work styles with palestine coalition. and yes, mean i love that we said you student at the university of sydney with the students for palestine group. welcome to you all. thank you so much for being a mom here. your joining us from harvard. can you tell us exactly what's happening on campus, right? now uh yeah, so basically on campus right now, we're having an encampment where students are occupying the whole yard and of many that they will only leave until we have full disclosure of harvard developments, as well as a safe estimate from the student is rona is really redeem the moods are very high
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right now. and community members are very strong and vigilant and remaining so fast in mind. so the, despite so much administrative impression, just mean, same question over to you that what's the situation in sydney? yeah, we've started our and cabinets here. uh, seeing what's been happening in the us wanting to send in support of the students are there who set up their in cap ma'am, and demand similar things for my university in order for them to comp, tides with weapons companies that can place it in genocide in gaza so, so the university for example has ties to this weapons company tellers, which has done, you know, collaboration projects that have produced the drawings that are used on palestinians. so we want to see how university are and those ties with weapons companies. and it's rarely institutions in order to stop being a yeah,
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can solicit in the genocide happening right now and phrase on your part of the fast and comment by a british university is the british student. we've been less politically engaged. oh, what kinds of unique challenges maybe do you face as compared? maybe so your us counterparts when speaking out on palestine as well, i think what we haven't seen the same degree of violence and repressing the protests and threats. and that we have a columbia in austin and across the us. the british political repression and policing is most sophisticated in some ways. it's more okay, but we have something called to prevent strategy. for instance, we shall price that you pay universities and effectively criminalizes and problem sizes. political speech that's on seeing fabulous targets, most of them students. so my goal is to how the wave of the government oppression recent may. new legislation obstructs the right to protest,
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which gave securities offices when to operate outside of the little button on the last whizzing students in the u. k. are starting to defy that. and i think in the coming days we're going to see an increasing waivers and comments across the country. in america, we've seen snipers on campus rooftops and a very heavy handed policing. but you've also face all the forms of challenges haven't used in terms of boxing and threats of expulsion and of course, accusations of anti semitism. uh yeah, it has been uh very along campus. um, just over the last semester we have had docs and trucks come around campus into students. parents, houses which were is incredibly frightening. but we've also had several degrees of repression, such as pro palestine proctors being evicted from their houses, or also just having the currently right now at the cabinet,
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students were occupying, are being passed. id slips that team that they will trigger their degree will be with a held and to continue to occupy the yard right now. however, as i said earlier, students are still remain vigilant despite administration, taking disciplinary action and still say they will dedicate their time to occupy the space until our demands are met. to well, let's say from cameron the lead. organize that for jewish voices, for peace at columbia. i'm in the 10th right now and being kept man, i feel extremely, extremely safe. i'm just, i'm kept meant. so do my jewish brothers and sisters who are also on the, on this encampment. we have not heard or seen any anti semitic rhetoric used on the encampment or used by people affiliated with it. if there is, by the way, that as i've had some of that being said by outside those who are not on campus, we condemn that. but we didn't, we, we have no control over what random individuals in new york city say or do we
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all we do know is that on this encampment on this campus, jewish students are standing with pro palestinian organizers and are involved. busy in the fight, so yeah, i do believe that anti semitism is being weaponized by the university and by the government because the university wants to do anything in their power to take attention away from the ongoing. tell us hasn't garza and they will even exploits. jewish trauma to get that to get that message across. just mean is jewish safety concerns to you and your colleagues on campus and how do you ensure it's given so much conflicting information concerning what is said to constitute jewish foods, including things like you know, holding a palestinian flag. oh, um yeah. well,
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our purchase have been extremely inclusive of people of every face and every new city and whatnot. um we've had jewish students camped alongside us here at sydney. we've had a jury speakers at every riley that we've put on. and that i think that really indicates just the inclusivity of the palestine movement being present. that is for justice, it's against genocide, it's anti racist and all of that. and i think, you know, the accusations i just used to deflect from the when i real things that we're fighting for the real issues happening in palestine right now. my mood as a palestinian can i ask how you feel about so much media attention being placed on privilege, student safety during an ongoing genocide including that of course of palestinian
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students. not nice since, of course there was 3 probably send you an students show me an american campus back in november 2023 and not long. that was no loan officer, a 6 year old palestinian boy, and his mother was found that the home in october last year. is there any discussion of palestinians safety happening on campuses? well yeah, there for sure is a definite issue of anti policy and racism. i mean, part of itself has its own issue with the department of education inside this country, opening an investigation to the school because they received a very massive planes over the last semester. however, despite there being so much prejudice and racism, that she has talked to me and every day in this country, a lot of times we use degree and we have to motivate us to take action. i mean, if you just look at brown university after 3 of the men were shot just for, we're going to be speaking arabic. his sham was one of them. and he is
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a student at brown university and were afterwards to create a brand, a bus coalitions demand brown university today, best him to is a state and also ensure that none of their money is going towards investments in genocide, occupation, or per site. you see the same thing over here with refreshing, really energizing people on campus. however, there always is a talk to ensure that does the image aspect going on over there right now, is the more more forefront of everything we do. we try doing that with having our, that programming circulate and surround so much about what the travesty is going on and gaza right now. as well as making sure that everyone on the ground is aware of what's going on and committed to things that fast and demeaning cost in liberation . now west and lising of privilege for the cause has been a big talking point on campuses. listen to this, the kids involved are just working class hard working kids. there are your kids
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with the privilege, those of the kids of congress members and business execs getting a rested. and that's a big deal. columbia university is where the next generation of leaders is supposed to be born. the next generation of oppressors. and now we have all of these young rich kids using their privilege to fight against a system. yeah. of course the systems freaking out, and that's not to say that there are students that are on that lawn right now. we're skiing, everything because there are. but a lot of those cues are weaponized in their privilege against the system that gave them that privilege. frayza. i'm, i want to ask you, do you think that part of the tough response we're seeing from also ortiz around the well to these protests is precisely because these all the sons and daughters, often of important people who are expected to uphold the states is closed.
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yeah, i think that that's definitely a factor in what's happening, but i think it speaks the strength of type like personality movement that you have students like that. and now being mobilized to take action. do university work is a savvy prestigious institution in the k, and it's probably, it's tied as the most minute tries university in the u. k. and that position means that students taking an option has already conscious of the pilot, the disproportionate power that we have, and that we be able to name time. and i'm just me, i want to ask you what the wielding privilege look like at this current juncture. as well, i think like the example here at sidney is that our university has this like model or that is leadership for good. and i think what they want is to turn all the students into the future, you know, prime ministers, the future, you know,
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bosses and c r as in the world. you know, people like the current prime minister of australia. graduated from city, uni, anthony helping easy. but, but i think what the student movement is about is kind of concerning condemning that kind of idea of leadership and actually us supporting and involving students in amazement that is about our fighting against oppression that is leading a struggle for uh, a free palestine rather than all the other pathways that are university wants to take us through. um, well most people will have had about the process at columbia. but have you heard of cal states polytechnic in humboldt because you should count state polytechnic in humboldt. they had a sit in one of the universities, buildings, and like they do,
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the cops showed up, and these protesters barricaded them out of the building. physically forced them out and setup barricades made of chairs, tables the supplies around them. and i am so proud the students use the skills that we were forced to obtain because we were constantly in fear of being suddenly under attack. and for a lot of those students, they were, we're in america. someone in that building was working from experience somewhere in that building was at least one survivor, and it worked stay successfully for off the bad guys with guns. my weird american students have basically been trained for revolt. i don't know necessarily if the trade will be the right word, but there is a saying that a laws protesters use which is the more these type of silence us, the latter we will be. and that just goes to show how the high degrees of
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oppression that be as college students every single day. even though people can be restricted from protesting with new protests guidelines such as harvard or people are not even allowed to a set of chairs. and you will get an arrest for that such as the university of florida last night where 9 people were arrested. and you can see that so many people utilize this repression and use it to energize them, mobilize them, but also learn in future circumstances on how to train their new forms or pro test phrases. in the us, we've seen some professes ad administration stuff and the university standing in solidarity with students and even getting arrested. is that a similar situation in the u. k? yeah, combination is made up of students and stuff and we've been company together with them for months to got the university to the middle tries. and as soon as the uncommon was set up on friday evening,
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we had lots of stock bringing down supplies and putting out tens, helping in every way they time. and sort of down to between students and staff. that work right now is very, very tight. and we're also seeing members of the community come in is become a real heart of community solidarity and families to bring in that kids and drawing pictures and sort of our team would cause a. so we really seeing stuff step up and down with students. just mean the indigenous people of canada recently gave their approval to students to protest on the lines of mcgill university. how does your own history and that the indigenous people of australia connect you to this movement? um, yeah, i mean, there is a lot of solidarity. uh, amongst uh, indigenous people here in australia with the struggle for a free palestine. i think it is, you know, struggle against races in
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a struggle against near the history of colonization here in australia. um and i think, yeah, like we want to constantly draw connections with the broader system of, you know, estallion braces in here that continues to see indigenous. i mean our, our incarceration rates be some of the highest in the world. continue to see uh, you know, industries, people are more likely to go to prison, then go to university. i think there's a problem of systemic racism and the lack of any sort of reparations being given to indigenous people here. and we always ask them and solidarity with that struggle. and in fact, here at sydney university, where i am right now is where the freedom arrived. i started that was in full authority with what happened in the u. s. where i, since any student took
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a boss across regional towns to draw attention to the issue of indigenous oppression and land, right? so it's kind of like, is no longer want me mental aside, a protest. and i think that's what tradition we're standing in is all of these historic 5 against injustice against races. and i'm in all of that now that has been some criticism online of how the process movement is being framed. take a look at this. yeah, i kind of don't like that student, the process of being labeled as he will. we are part of a liberation movements. the hash side isn't and why you for know it's n y u for palestine is how our universities divest and palestine is free. the students will keep mobilizing mood. we've seen some people on line describe this as a global student intifada. how do you define this movement?
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well, personally, i definitely do like that name a lot. uh, i do think it describes whats going on on college campuses, which is communities coming together, a mobilizing, inviting to be on the right side of the street, which is the house for disclosure, and they've estimate from the is always stay to make sure palestine is free it was in our lifetimes. i mean, just when i ever i walk around and can't met on campus, there is such a strong community that staying vigilant, despite administration coming through the camp every single day and routinely checking ideas with routine lead threatening graduation. routinely tracking to even a suspend students, or some students who are uh immigrants and who do not have a permanent vis a permanent residence inside the united states. they have, it says they've been threatened with a disciplinary action and they're ok despite the fact that they can literally be deported by the university soon. so i think uh,
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colleges all across the country right now there they are. mobilize you for palestine liberation 1st and foremost that at the forefront and the stone mountain . visualize i see personally as of health thing. it truly does keep the movement alive and it, and keeps me going every single day to mobilize, but also to organize and just stay stuck fast. i want to ask you, oh uh, one by one. now about the objectives of this global movement phase at what all the objectives of the movement as you understand it on what do palestinians sits in defining those objectives? a while and time and on time. pain is fast and full most inspired by the struggle with the palestinian people and the people gaza way demanding the universe to divest and break old ties with on companies. but it condemns the genocide occupation the dispossession of the protestant in people. but it's such as to how
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we build causes education sector, and then it protects free speech and some authority, palestine. and i think at the same time as seeing this and comment as part of the global palestine, some dollar to movement. we also see how the struggle to protest and people is connected to the struggles or the press people against colonialism and how the war machine that's tested in gaza is deployed around the world by the united states and its allies to suppress liberation struggles. just mean, same question to you. is this an an anti war movement? liberation struggle. how do you define it and where the palestinians sits within that? um yeah. well i think uh, i think there isn't necessarily something mutually exclusive about fighting for palestinian liberation, but also fighting against for like a lot of the weapons companies that were demanding. our university cut ties with are also complicit in, you know,
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trading the weapons used by the strongly in military that have deployed them there in when they joined the invasions of iraq and afghanistan. so i think we want to fight against these arms companies in order to not only see like an end to the genocide happening in gaza. but the n a future genocide and a future war that sees, you know, our government and have a compromise across the world, put their own interest uh, their imperialist interest. beyond the interest of ordinary people and my mood as opposed to me in yourself. how do you feel about the fact this issue is igniting us campuses? i'm global campuses. uh yeah. like i said earlier, a truly does where my heart, i mean, just talking to my mother uh the other day and she was the organizer for policy and the ration in her time as well. uh, she told me she would never expected such
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a global student move at that bites her policy liberation to the extent where it is right now. but i mean, truly, i feel like just with this move in general, it does show how students are now changing their believes and how there's been so much design as propaganda. the past is being disrupted. i mean, students who are in universities right now will eventually obtain jobs will that eventually obtain places of power within their lives. but i truly hope that this ends up with change to the is, is all your team and for that, for the quantization and occupation of palestine. and it will be free in our life time because of the student move man, because people have shown are solitary to post and he ends and stood on the right side of history with postilion demand, the liberation for going on. well, one thing we have had from student process is we've spoken to is the need to sense of palestinians. so let's end this discussion by hearing from father ahmad,
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a student from gaza, who was doing a degree in media before the is really a sold, dramatically changed her life over to you, father. i know, and for the, i think is it the media which had be in the exams is and the either or the case might be on the i the day in the long wasn't before before. so i was due today because i didn't go actually to investigate your best convenience and they, i go through it, but now i have a know my message. this is a just of the lord and a i think the most amount of was a some on the warning done this mission cutty and i want to thank you all guess
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