Away from the back-and-forth of the campaign trail, thousands of students are taking part in pro-Palestinian encampment-style protests at more than 50 university campuses across the US

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Could student protesters turn the 2024 election?

Tensions on university campuses, already high as a wave of pro-Palestinian encampment-style protests sweeps the US, got even higher overnight.

The protests, which have seen students pitch tents or occupy buildings at Columbia, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and others, began as an effort to get universities to ditch investments in companies which provide weapons and equipment to the Israeli military.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    56·
    7 months ago

    I have friends in their 70s who talk to me about their life experiences here in Canada and what they grew up with. A lot of them were in college during the 1970s so they got to live through the whole Vietnam war era.

    They are proud of what students are doing now.

    They keep reminding me that their generation helped to stop wars overseas … and if they did it in the past … students can do it again.

    • lettruthout@lemmy.worldEnglish
      46·
      7 months ago

      Yes, and I think that’s why we’re seeing such quick and drastic measures being taken against student protesters - too many powerful people know that these protests will be effective if allowed to continue.

      • Jaysyn@kbin.social
        20·
        7 months ago

        Brown has already capitulated. It’s just a matter of time.

        Never bet against youth.

        • lettruthout@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          7 months ago

          Yeah, some of the most effective people are those that don’t know the task is “impossible”. They figure out a way.