Pro-Palestinian protesters camp in tents at 40 top US universities

The Independent

As the final day of classes at UC Berkeley came to a close on Friday, pro-Palestinian protesters showed no signs of backing down.

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00:00 their university. They're

00:01 here to stay. They're here to

00:01 stay. They're here to stay.

00:02 They're here to stay. They're

00:02 here to stay. They're here to

00:03 stay. They're here to stay.

00:04 They've made it very clear that

00:07 they are here to stay. In

00:09 Palestine and, um, you know, we

00:11 likewise are here, you know to

00:12 stay. We're not going anywhere

00:14 until the UC divest. Protests

00:16 are growing on Bay Area

00:16 University campuses over the

00:20 war in Gaza. 11 o'clock news

00:24 on KTVU Fox two starts now.

00:25 Students at UC Berkeley and

00:27 Stanford are among the

00:28 protesters. They're here to

00:30 stay. They're here to stay.

00:32 They're here to stay. They're

00:33 here to stay. This is real.

00:34 Hello again. I'm Greg Lee, and

00:36 I'm Christina Rendon. Students

00:37 at Berkeley have been sleeping

00:38 intense all week to draw

00:39 attention to the war in the

00:41 Middle East. KTVU is Joey

00:42 Horta was on campus today and

00:42 has a look at the growing

00:45 encampment. As the final day of

00:50 classes at UC Berkeley come to

00:52 a close on Friday, pro

00:54 Palestinian protesters are

00:56 showing no signs of backing

00:58 down. We're going to keep

00:59 fighting. We're going to keep

01:01 fighting. We're going to keep

01:02 fighting as hard as we can.

01:04 While demonstrations have

01:05 turned violent at college

01:07 campuses around the country

01:09 this week here at Cal, the UC

01:11 Berkeley Divest Coalition has

01:14 led a peaceful protest.

01:15 Students are taking turns

01:17 camping out, and they've grown

01:19 from about a dozen tents on

01:21 Monday to more than 70 by

01:23 Friday. We have three kind of

01:25 sleeping pads here. Undergrad

01:26 Cecilia Luna Parra shows us

01:27 how the protestors are

01:29 organizing. The protestors

01:31 are protesting against the

01:32 ban that was enacted to Berkeley

01:33 City Council last week. Our

01:36 tuition dollars are currently.

01:38 Going to corporations that are

01:40 aiding this genocide.

01:42 Protesters are calling for the

01:44 U. C to divest from those

01:46 companies to end its silence on

01:48 Gaza to cut ties with Israeli

01:50 universities and to protect

01:50 students organizing in support

01:54 of Palestine. Supporters are

01:56 calling for the U. C to end its

01:58 silence on Gaza, and they're

01:59 calling for the U. C to end its

02:01 silence on Gaza, bearing the

02:03 colors of the Palestinian flag.

02:04 It's kind of a way that I

02:05 aggrieve. No way that I can

02:09 really just show. My

02:11 solidarity. Others are old

02:12 enough to remember Berkeley's

02:14 historic role as the home of

02:16 the free speech movement. I

02:18 remember the hell. No, we won't

02:20 go during the end of the

02:22 Vietnam War. Sometimes you have

02:23 to throw enough logs on the

02:25 ground to get the word out.

02:27 But the U. C. Is not going to

02:29 back down. The university

02:32 agrees to divest. Spokesman

02:33 for the university says they

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