From Below

From Columbia to the University of California Santa Cruz, the Palestine solidarity movement has moved on to college campuses across the United States. In most cases, students are pressuring their institutions to divest endowment funds from corporations which maintain financial ties to the state of Israel—a demand which ties into the broader Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) strategy.

The student movement on campuses has generally taken to the tactic of occupying public space with tents and other semi-permanent structures. In so doing, these encampments have become hubs of round the clock activity. Included in the maintenance of the encampments are efforts to deepen political education, typically through teach-ins and other programming on a variety of topics.

In this episode of From Below we bring you into the student encampment at Stanford University, where receently members of Black Rose Anarchist Federation helped to organize a panel discussion on indigenous revolution. This panel discussion featured a Palestinian healthcare worker, a Kurdish graduate student, and a Mapuche healthcare worker; each of whom offered a different—and at times divergent—perspective on indigenous organizing.