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Politics/Government / Re: Biden about to address campus protests
« Last post by mountaineer on Today at 02:59:04 pm »Maybe he'll regale us with tales of his own campus social justice protest days, and the many times he was arrested.
Student demands at University of Chicago encampment include defunding police, reparations, cutting emissions
Among the chants heard at the rally include 'Long live the intifada!' and 'Smash the settler Zionist state!'
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn Fox News
Published May 2, 2024 5:00am EDT
... "The U Chicago Popular University For Gaza demands that you, Chicago, divest from the Gaza genocide," the protester told the university. "We demand that you, Chicago, divest from weapons manufacturers arming Israel and its partnerships with militarized Israeli universities, and cut ties with the Israel Institute. We also demand that you, Chicago, divest from all interrelated forces of death and violence into which it is currently complicit, especially fossil fuel production, UCPD and construction projects that fuel South Side displacement."
She then led chants of "We won't rest til you divest!" ...
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giving unscheduled remarks in the Roosevelt Room in the next few minutes. Will he finally address the nation on the rampant antisemitism gripping US college campuses?
Not sure if he will take questions..I wouldn't bet on it.