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Hi. The Gaza Solidarity Encampments in April and May 2024 were mocked by politicians and dishonest pundits, despite the fact that the college protesters were totally right.

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How To Cynically Dismiss The Campus Protests Against Genocide - EARLY, AD-FREE, AND UNCENSORED

Hi. The Gaza Solidarity Encampments in April and May 2024 were mocked by politicians and dishonest pundits, despite the fact that the college protesters were totally right. Hosted by Cody Johnston Executive Producer - Katy Stoll Directed by Will Gordh Written by David Christopher Bell Edited by Gregg Meller Produced by Jonathan Harris Associate Producer - Quincy Tucker Post-Production Supervisor - John Conway Researcher - Marco Siler-Gonzales Graphics by Clint DeNisco Head Writer - David Christopher Bell MERCH: https://shop.somemorenews.com PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/some-more-news/id1364825229 Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 02:03 - What the protesters want 09:51 - Opposition to the protests 18:17 - Swampy Cream 19:43 - What really happened at Columbia 35:42 - What really happened at UCLA 44:32 - The police and free speech 54:11 - The protesters are right 59:27 - The media failed 1:06:09 - PCU 1:11:20 - cream

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Burrito

Nothing says January 6th like people in tents opposing genocide.

Burrito

Ha! PCU! Like that there GU episode I commissioned!

AEPSchmitt

I am currently working on a documentary on the student protests in Copenhagen. Danish media covered everything without any journalistic integrity, and mostly asked students if they went home from the protest camps to sleep and shower, and then painted them as privileged "luxury protesters" instead of actually explaining their cause. The protest here was a success and the University ended up divesting and promised more transparency in their future investments.

Sharien

you know...on the universities being unable to avoid investing into war profiteering because they are so hard to isolate... i have a question... why is a university playing the stock market? like... that doesnt sound like salaries for professors... or education and research material... or building maintenance... or like...anything even remotely related to anything a university should be doing?

Eric Herde

The corn cream plotline is almost as horrifying as the stuff actually happening in the real world.

Sharien

hmmm those companies threatening to not hire from universities where protests happened... that sounds like some form of punishment applied to a large group of people indiscriminately... one might call it collective punishment... now where have i heard that term before? oh right THE NAZIS were big fans of doing that but then what would you expect from companies like exxon right? the big capitalists and industrialists have also been the best friend of the nazis back then...

Pablo Barría Urenda

I used to love PCU so much when I watched on "HBO Olé" in 1995 (I was 13), that I didn't need any of the recaps but man, that analysis of the ending kinda blew my mind a little bit. Another depressing 90s gem to watch is Aaron Sorkin's "An American President" where the big legislative issues of the day are gun control and environmental issues.

ancrapistan

Cody was born in 1984? Gorgor well

Charles Jenkins

I laughed so much at the how to do terrorism book it hurts

Logan

Hmmm, I wonder what made a whole generation of young people know how to organize a protest well. Couldn’t be reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights being demolished, police brutality, war after war after war, a climate crisis, affordable housing, etc

Jane Heyer

hooray! that's my shirt-head mayor up there! Mayor Adams, have you studied anything about colleges in New YorkCity? Cuz you'd know that taking over campus is something students have been doing for a very. long. time. That terrorism book is obviously part of a popular college-level series of introductory books on various topics. Also, those chains are OBVIOUSLY standard bike chains here in NYC. Bike thieves carry around massive bolt cutters, and if you want any hope of keeping your bike, you have to get a massive chain to lock it. gaslight smarter not harder (or don't)

burgerpocalypse

oh my god! we need to get someone over to cody's house, and make sure the corn cream is ok!

Andrew Carkner

My university (McGill) has had an encampment since April 27, and surprisingly the police never broke it up. The university admin clearly expected them to: in the first few days they send a series of increasingly threatening emails to all students & staff culminating in an email saying they called the police to remove the campers. To which the police replied that nobody was committing any crime

Pelicans are my favorite dinosaur

As someone who has a Jewish son in college, I know that he sees anti-Semitic signs and graffiti on campus; however, the perpetrators of that are likely people not truly involved in the protests but letting their hate fly under the cover of the protests. Just like bad actors at any protests. It happens at EVERY protest. The majority of the students just want genocide to stop. period. They may not all be educated on the history of the region (for instance Jews have been in that region for thousands of years, not just since 1948) but their intentions are good. And some people just love any excuse to have police beat up on peaceful protestors.

Steven Smith

I've seen worse behavior at sporting events, with significantly reduced police presence, and virtually no public outcry.

Steven Smith

Civil disobedience... The most peaceful and ethical type of mass protest... The tactic of MLK and Gandhi. This is what is being vilified.

The Big Shakuna

Can I just say how much I am personally enjoying the “corn cream” saga? Like I totally understand that everything around is ultimately depressing and sad, but how you tie it all together with these weird little story arcs is just a thing of sheer brilliance.

Robert Booth

Very disappointed at the lack of Warmbo 😂 we neeeeeeeeed more Warmbo ❤️

Gretchen Hintz

I'm amused at the idea of a first time viewer of SMN choosing this video as their first and looking absolutely confused in the first three minutes.

George Eakin

Why am I learning so much more about these protests from a news org with a corn cream problem and not from major news organizations with huge budgets and a broad reach in the media? I guess the latter prefer the work of manipulating public perception.

Bree Pail

What has always angered me over the occupation of Hamilton Hall was the idea that students wouldn’t know how to properly barricade a door. They spent their entire lives learning ALICE and other methods to prevent entrance into rooms by school shooters since they were in kindergarten and somehow THAT is what makes them “outside agitators”? Thank you for covering this, in addition to… literally everything surrounding the genocide, the most egregious things happening at home has been the response to student organizing and outright lies. It makes my blood boil.

Alexx T. Holden

Thank y’all for mentioning UT Austin which is just up the road from me. I’m generally pretty embarrassed and angry at Abbott, but I have children in college and I’m proud of the bravery these young adults are showing in the face of authoritarian goose stepping.

Benjamin Zuses

I own PCU on dvd. Nothing you said about it is incorrect. It is funny.

Marie Strange

This episode hurt my feelings really bad. It's brutal how these kids are being embattled

Marie Strange

There's a bunch of people in this video that just need someone standing close to them, constantly telling them they're a piece of shit.

Gretchen Hintz

All hail our new corn cream overlords.