Claremont Undercurrents

Undercurrents reports on labor, Palestine liberation, prison abolition and other community organizing at and around the Claremont Colleges.

Issue 1 / Spring 2023

Setting the Standard

How Pomona workers won a historic $25 minimum wage; a new union in Claremont; Tony Hoang on organizing

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Palestine

June 25, 2024

Pitzer discloses $1.6M in defense and aerospace investments, a month after telling SJP it will not divest

Gould previously said Pitzer was “likely” invested in Boeing, the largest U.S. manufacturer of munitions supplied to Zionist regime

Palestine

May 10, 2024

Incoming ASPC President: Pomona Board of Trustees want to “buy our silence and complicity in genocide through donations”

Palestine

May 7, 2024

Pomona admin met with Claremont Police Chief days before Alexander Hall sit-in to plan intervention, emails show

Palestine

May 6, 2024

LIVE UPDATES: PDfA sets up Gaza solidarity encampment on Marston Quad at Pomona

Palestine

May 6, 2024

ARRESTED, JAILED, SUSPENDED, UNHOUSED: What happened to the Pomona Seven after April 5

Features and commentary

Claremont Faculty for Justice in Palestine

February 18, 2024

Statement: Claremont FJP Responds to ASPC Referendum and Pomona College President Gabi Starr’s Email

The boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement is a Palestinian-led, non-violent movement that aims to pressure Israel to cease violating […]

Claremont Faculty for Justice in Palestine

February 11, 2024

Statement: Claremont faculty members establish Faculty for Justice in Palestine chapter

Faculty members form organization in support of Palestine.

Palestine

May 2, 2024

Pomona faculty vote in favor of divestment from Israeli apartheid, becoming one of the first colleges in the U.S. to do so

64% of Pomona faculty passes resolution to divest from companies on BDS' "divest and exclusion" targets

Palestine

April 28, 2024

Alumni shut down Pomona parade with divestment banner

The disruption is alumni's second divestment protest of the weekend, after a dinner walkout Friday night.

Palestine

Pomona alumni join divestment protests, disrupt Alumni Weekend dinner

Around 200 students, faculty and alumni disrupted Pomona’s Alumni Weekend dinner on Friday evening, with alumni giving speeches and leading […]

anti-imperialism

Mudders & alumni disrupt presidential address, demand HMC cut ties with defense contractors

The action follows alumni weekend disruptions at Pitzer and Pomona to demand divestment from Israeli genocide

Palestine

April 26, 2024

Breaking: SJP, JVP set up Gaza solidarity encampment at Pitzer

Pitzer now joins dozens of colleges where students have set up anti-genocide encampments in the past week.

Undercurrents reports on labor, Palestine liberation, prison abolition and other community organizing at and around the Claremont Colleges.

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Issue 1 / Spring 2023

Setting the Standard

How Pomona workers won a historic $25 minimum wage; a new union in Claremont; Tony Hoang on organizing

Read issue 1

Latest news

Pitzer discloses $1.6M in defense and aerospace investments, a month after telling SJP it will not divest

Incoming ASPC President: Pomona Board of Trustees want to “buy our silence and complicity in genocide through donations”

Pomona admin met with Claremont Police Chief days before Alexander Hall sit-in to plan intervention, emails show

LIVE UPDATES: PDfA sets up Gaza solidarity encampment on Marston Quad at Pomona

ARRESTED, JAILED, SUSPENDED, UNHOUSED: What happened to the Pomona Seven after April 5

Features and commentary

Statement: Claremont FJP Responds to ASPC Referendum and Pomona College President Gabi Starr’s Email

Statement: Claremont faculty members establish Faculty for Justice in Palestine chapter

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Pomona faculty vote in favor of divestment from Israeli apartheid, becoming one of the first colleges in the U.S. to do so

Alumni shut down Pomona parade with divestment banner

Pomona alumni join divestment protests, disrupt Alumni Weekend dinner

Mudders & alumni disrupt presidential address, demand HMC cut ties with defense contractors

Breaking: SJP, JVP set up Gaza solidarity encampment at Pitzer