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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.

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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.

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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

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.

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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 […]

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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.

Palestine

April 8, 2024

VIDEO: Pomona calls riot police, 25 police vehicles on 19-student sit-in at Alexander Hall

The students were demanding that the college divest from Israeli apartheid. Pomona had 20 students arrested just two hours after the sit-in began.

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April 7, 2024

PHOTOS: Pomona College calls in riot police to arrest 19 students participating in peaceful sit-in

25 vehicles from 5 different police departments arrived on campus. Some officers carried riot shields and high-caliber crowd-control weapons.

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March 30, 2024

How Gabi Starr has spoken about Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza since Oct. 7

Gabi Starr has sent out a number of emails surrounding the genocide of the Palestinian people and pro-Palestine actions since Oct. 7. Here is a timeline.

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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