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Gaza Solidarity Encampments

The Movement of College Encampments for Palestine: an introductory analysis

The mass mobilization of pro-Palestine students over the last couple months has truly been a sight to see. Spreading like wildfire in the states & eventually spanning the globe, this wave of student encampments has called Power out by its rightful name: genocide enabler.
Student-activists have been occupying their schools and demanding the divestment of these various foundations from the settler-colonial project of Israel. A handful of other demands have been put forth as well, responding to each locale’s varying needs. Students at our UW-Madison also demanded a cop-free campus, for example.
Of course, any earnest challenging of the state & its interests in the military industrial complex will be met with a vicious response. Brute force

We Need Mass Organizing to Defeat State Violence

Marx, Lenin, and other theorists of socialism are teaching me how the state and capitalism function, which in turn has helped me to understand imperialism, colonialism, oppression, and my own lived experiences.
Additionally, Marxist history has taught me the power of the working class. When discussing and deciding democratically with clear intention and action, the outcomes have better results—but of course not without repression from the state. The immense and powerful state violence is an essential topic for us to discuss. How do we protect ourselves? How do we hold ground? How do we support, and gain support in numbers?

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