On Friday, students from the seven schools in Claremont, California, began an encampment at Pitzer College. Actions have occurred over the course of the weekend, including the following this evening:
Students occupied and shut down the “A Taste Of Pitzer” alumni music festival, giving alumni and administrators a true taste of the Pitzer community’s commitment to the radical pursuit of justice. Students are demanding that the Board of Trustees come to the nearby Gaza Solidarity Encampment, which remains active, and meet our three demands:
– Disclosure and divestment of investments in companies complicit in Israeli apartheid and genocide as well as all weapons manufacturers
– Official adoption of a policy of academic boycott of the complicit Israeli university system, as called for by Pitzer’s shared governance body in an overwhelming majority vote
– An end to repression of student protesters, and revision of the Claremont Colleges’ protest policy by an elected committee of students and faculty.
We are in solidarity with the student encampments across the country reclaiming physical and political space for anti-war and pro-justice movements, and above all with the Palestinian people. We are committed to ending our colleges’ and the United States’ support of Israel’s genocidal campaign of ethnic domination and territorial expansion. NOT IN OUR NAME – NO BUSINESS AS USUAL!
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