“Democracy Now!” today featured Kathy Kelly of World BEYOND War. She is among the fasters gathered outside the U.S. mission to the U.N. and spoke about the U.S. veto yesterday and how Uniting for Peace could overcome the veto. She also noted some problems with the upcoming Saudi-French sponsored UN meeting.
DropSiteNews writes: “‘Democracy Now!’ reports that Harvard graduate Zehra Imam received her diploma, and Megha Vemuri of MIT — banned from her graduation ceremony for speaking out against the genocide in Gaza — also ultimately received hers. But, Logan Rozos of NYU, who also spoke out, is still being denied his diploma.”
AntiWar.com is reporting: “Israeli Forces Kill 95 Palestinians in Gaza Over 24 Hours.” Dan Cohen and Alaa from Gaza report: “Exclusive: 90 Days as a Human Shield for Israeli soldiers in Gaza.” The Guardian reports: “Palestinian Red Crescent details medic’s account of 15 colleagues’ slaughter.” CNN reports: “‘Death and hunger’: Videos, expert analysis and witnesses point to Israeli gunfire in Gaza aid site shooting.”
Eight CUNY (City University of New York) students, staff, and faculty, began their “hunger strike on the steps of the CUNY Graduate Center demanding the university divest” from Israel ten days ago. See their most recent news release.
The group states: “The hunger strike, which has occupied the main entrance to the CUNY Graduate Center building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan now for over a week, has become a bustling community of political education and mutual aid (photos and updates here). …”
“In that time,” they add, Israel’s “deadly siege has tightened its grip on the Gaza strip, putting 930,000 children at risk of imminent death from starvation. At the same time” Israel “continues its rampage of daily massacres in a relentless bombing campaign targeting schools, hospitals, and refugee camps.”The group denounced Israel’s continued blocking of “over 3,000 medical aid trucks into Gaza” as it “continues its deadly siege, funded by our tax dollars and tuition. The day that we began our hunger strike, the U.S. sent its 800th planeload of weapons to Gaza since the beginning of the genocide. … Like so many people around the world, we have watched the indescribable brutality and carnage wrought by these weapons, livestreamed directly from journalists on the ground. CUNY’s investment of millions” in Israeli “corporations and weapons manufacturers provides material support to these atrocities.”
The group adds: “Despite a barrage of calls and emails, the CUNY Chancellor has refused to even acknowledge the fact that students and workers are starving on the steps of the Graduate Center to demand that CUNY divest from genocide, just as he has refused to acknowledge the bare fact of that genocide.”
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