Several dozen students at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) joined the nationwide Gaza protest encampment movement on Thursday (April 25) to demand the University divest from corporations they say “profit” from the Israel-Hamas war and call for an immediate cease-fire.
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00:00 Several dozen students at the University of California Los Angeles UCLA joined the nationwide
00:08 Gaza protest encampment movement on Thursday in a peaceful demonstration.
00:13 The Palestinian Solidarity Encampment was created overnight with protesters, largely
00:18 made up of students and alumni.
00:20 This came about because we as students and other members of the UCLA community have been
00:27 seeing the six months of Israel's genocide of Palestinians, we've seen the 75 plus years
00:33 of Israeli occupation of Palestine, and we came together to make demands on the university
00:40 to divest the endowment from corporations that profit off of Israeli genocide, to disclose
00:46 where our money is invested in the first place, and to stop over-policing and collaborating
00:53 with the LAPD to target pro-Palestinian student organizing, and overall to call for an immediate
01:00 and permanent ceasefire and to stop the genocide of Palestinians.
01:11 After protesters and police clashed at the neighboring campus of the University of Southern
01:15 California in Los Angeles during a pro-Palestinian demonstration on Wednesday, Doher said there
01:21 is currently no concern for violence at the encampment.
01:25 I don't think that our concerns about our personal safety are at the forefront of our
01:32 minds right now.
01:33 I think at the forefront of our minds is the violence that Palestinians are suffering at
01:37 the hands of the Israeli state every day these last six months and last, again, almost 80
01:45 years.
01:48 The war in Gaza continues to reverberate through U.S. university campuses where students have
01:53 camped out in tents as they protested Israel's actions in Gaza.
01:59 Pro-Palestinian groups have called on universities to end investments in companies that support
02:04 or profit from Israel's military actions in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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