tag: Palestine

Palestine

January 5, 2024

CMC affinity groups release statement expressing solidarity with Palestine

Leaders of Latine, Black and AAPI student groups criticized a faculty statement for "failing to acknowledge ... genocide."

Palestine

November 13, 2023

Hundreds of Claremont students mobilized for Palestine protests in the past month. Here’s a timeline

Israeli attacks have killed 11,240 Palestinians since Oct. 7. Hundreds of Claremont studednts have mobilized to demand the colleges divest from Israel in response.

Palestine

113 students shut down Pomona Family Weekend Address, demanding divestment from Israel

The action came after students promised escalation in an Oct. 25 delegation attended by at least 370 people.

Palestine

Against student protests, Pomona College clears Palestine vigil from SCC

The college's rationale shifted from rain damage to a prohibition of memorials at SCC over the night before the takedown.

Commentary

November 5, 2023

Our commitment: finding and telling the truth about Palestine

We are committed to archiving our resistance as it's tied to collective struggles for a free Palestine, honoring the brave testimony and stories stemming from this movement.

Palestine

Promising escalation, 370+ students delegate to Pomona treasurer, demanding Israel divestment

"We’re here because Pomona College in particular has fallen on the wrong side of history multiple times."

Palestine

October 11, 2023

Second SJP event addresses ‘pinkwashing’ of Israel

Organizers aimed to break down “binary, progressive versus backwards” narrative about queerness in Israel and Palestine

Palestine

October 4, 2023

Palestine 101 Recap: ahead of campaign, SJP starts the year with a history lesson

"In order to understand the Palestinian struggle, you must understand it through a framework...[of] settler colonialism."

Palestine

April 25, 2023

SJP and Prisab co-host Stop LAPD Spying Coalition talk about LAPD and IDF surveillance

U.S. police and Israeli apartheid surveillance share logics of “othering,” technologies of legitimization, organizers said

Palestine

April 3, 2023

SJP relaunches campaign to suspend Pitzer study abroad at University of Haifa in Israel

Organizers say program supports violent displacement of Palestinians — “My family is from Haifa, my dad was born in Haifa…but I would not be able to go there on study abroad.”

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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