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Live Updates: Demonstrations and War in Gaza
UCLA Radio’s live coverage of these events began Monday, April 29. Any perspectives shared below do not reflect the views of ASUCLA Student Media.
Early Thursday morning on April 25, 2024, students at UCLA set up an encampment in Dickson Court to demand that the UC disclose their assets and divest from companies involved in Israel’s war on Gaza. The encampment has since steadily expanded while demonstrators peacefully engage in a variety of programming led by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). This post seeks to provide the most up-to-date information and developments concerning UCLA’s movements for Palestinian liberation, and will be continually updated.
continue reading ➞Early Thursday morning on April 25, 2024, students at UCLA set up an encampment in Dickson Court to demand that the UC disclose their assets and divest from companies involved in Israel’s war on Gaza. The encampment has since steadily expanded while demonstrators peacefully engage in a variety of programming led by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). This post seeks to provide the most up-to-date information and developments concerning UCLA’s movements for Palestinian liberation, and will be continually updated.
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Opinion: UCLA's History of Violence Justifies Atrocities.
The violence that has ensued over the past few days is something not many would envision happening during their time at UCLA. But at the same time, it is not entirely unexpected given UCLA’s complicity in a narrative of power that subjugates the oppressed.
The ruthless and unmoving genocidal campaign committed by Israel against Gaza continues in the wake of university student protests across the U.S..
continue reading ➞The ruthless and unmoving genocidal campaign committed by Israel against Gaza continues in the wake of university student protests across the U.S..
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Beyond Our Space: Student Encampments for Gaza as a Global Movement
From Amsterdam to Tokyo to our home in Los Angeles, a global movement this Spring saw students occupy university grounds to express their solidarity with the people of Palestine. In the U.S., this movement followed in the footsteps of Columbia University, but encampments and occupations as a form of protest are nothing new on American campuses, whether as a part of the Civil Rights and anti-War sit-ins of the 1960s, the anti-apartheid movement in the 1980s, or solidarity with the Occupy movement in the 2010s. Protest is simply an essential foundation of democracy—freedom of speech and assembly—to ensure that people’s voices are heard. At the same time, as we found out on our campus here in Westwood, the web of repression facilitated by administration, government, and local officials in response to these protests also has a lengthy pedigree.
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UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment Statement Following Encampment Raid
Following the aftermath of Wednesday night’s brutal police raid on the UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment (PSE) on UCLA’s campus, the encampment released an official statement.
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Opinion: Ugly and Beautiful at 4 am
The thing that sticks with me is the juxtaposition: all that ugliness against so much beauty. I’m telling you, the protestors were not an angry mob of teens. There was beauty in the drum circles in and outside the camp that led us through hours of chanting. There was beauty in all those books, and in the mental health clinic on site. There was beauty in the Anawakalmekak, Los Angeles County’s only Indigenous K-12 school, who lent their voices and called for freedom of speech for the students of UCLA. Beauty in locking arms to create a wall outside the camp and beauty inside it.
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