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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”

The president said that the Board of Trustees met students and faculty with "sheer disrespect" in a May 7 meeting.

Palestine

May 7, 2024

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

President Starr called in dozens of riot police to arrest 19 students participating in a divestment sit in on April 5.

Palestine

May 6, 2024

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

After arrests one month ago, student group Pomona Divest from Apartheid have set up a Gaza solidarity encampment on the main quad at Pomona College.

Palestine

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

A brutal arrest was only the beginning of weeks of violence at the hand of Pomona administrators.

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

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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

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