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At this very moment, a student-led grassroots movement is spreading throughout the country, with\xa0over 100 encampments\xa0going up at different college and university campuses around the country and around the world in protest of Israel\u2019s US-funded genocidal war on Gaza and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. In what is being called the \u201cstudent intifada,\u201d students, faculty, grad students, and other campus community members are exercising civil disobedience, occupying space on campuses, defying brutal repression from administrators and police, combatting skewed and wildly lopsided narratives in corporate media, and pressuring their universities to \u201cdisclose and divest\u201d their investments in companies and financial institutions connected to Israel.

\xa0 In this urgent podcast, we take you to the frontlines of struggle and speak directly with student and grad student organizers of the Gaza encampment at the University of Michigan\u2019s flagship campus in Ann Arbor. As the\xa0Michigan Daily, the student newspaper,\xa0reports, \u201cThe encampment was organized by the\xa0TAHRIR Coalition, a student-led coalition of more than 80 organizations including the\xa0U-M chapter\xa0of Jewish Voice for Peace and\xa0Students Allied for Freedom and Equality. The encampment follows six months of student protests for the University\u2019s divestment, which began with a\xa0sit-in\xa0at the President\u2019s house in October. Since then, students have continuously organized protests across campus demanding the University divest from Israel\u2019s military campaign in Gaza.\u201d TRNN\u2019s Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez (who is an alumnus of the University of Michigan), speaks with Salma Hamamy, an undergraduate at UM and president of\xa0Students Allied For Freedom and Equality\xa0(SAFE), and Ember McCoy, a graduate student worker and department organizer in the\xa0Graduate Employees Organization\xa0(GEO).

Studio Production: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: David Hebden

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