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surety since the war and casa is real, has blocks garbage trucks from using this road to move solid waste to the regions, mainland for municipalities like from adobe, right, had been forced to dump the trash in mixture of sites your residential areas. in recent weeks, someone started sending them a fine. it took 48 hours and $300.00 truckloads of water to put out the fire and it will be re days after the incident smoke will still rise. local officials say after trash has been piling up for months, it may have been a frustrated resident. this was the thought of disaster because the trash was fighting up more than 4000 tons were 5 up here. the fire that was set up for us a lot of has the smoke the residents to started. you know, they're complaining about the finding of trash near their houses and they have the right to do so. as am i spell it is this consumes us. and every residency it was
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there will be a fit to the health only after air pollution from the garbage fire blew into a nearby illegal settlement. did his real begin allowing trucks to carry trash out of the city limits once again, but only for a few hours a day, not enough time to complete the work. this still needs to be done. israel's war is having impacts in the west bank that are often on seen this. otherwise, ideally, countryside is suddenly interrupted by these dump sites. large piles of garbage trash that has been discarded on the side of the road because there's nowhere else for it to go illegal. dumping and full bins have become a common site with the potential for ground air and water pollution. hi. it means serious implications for public health and safety in palestine you'd own with trying to find solutions for problems that on the 8th of by the existence of talk to patients in general. and even these little institutions that nobody cares about
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in other areas of the word, they are also part of the size and they've done within assigned a new policy that drives some seems to, to see, you know, life becomes impossible. it is not just an issue of literacy says it is just the latest example of how all aspects of life are governed by israeli policy that is designed to drive palestinians out in another way of dehumanizing people in these communities, forcing them to live surrounded by their own garbage, the same bus route, the old to 0, be ready the occupied westbank palestine demo on our website. i'll just share a dot com. the news continues here off to the bottom line to stay with the cds with santa, when he's one of the world's most expensive timbers in the black box and try his
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destination for one on one asian investigates the spot to capture indian sandlewood king on out 0 hi, i'm steve clements and i have a question across the united states. why are the student protests for palestine being met with military style crackdowns? let's get to the bottom line. the from los angeles to boston and dozens of college campuses in between. students have been peacefully expressing their solidarity with the palestinian people on their college campuses. after months of watching israel pulverized gauze into rubble and dust. but this week, the administrations of several universities called on police forces to break up the demonstrations and tear apart student encampments. more than 2000 students have been detained and a countless number of been injured, suspended, or banned from setting foot on campus. graduation ceremonies have been cancelled,
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and president joe biden has weighed in implying that the demonstrations are anti semitic and basically reducing the protests to an issue of law and order. but is it that simple, or is it linked to the american tradition of youth movements that start against the vietnam war in the 19 sixty's, a part hide south african, the 1980s, and supported black lives matter just a few years ago. today we'll start with 2 student leaders at the university of north carolina at chapel hill, jacob, and harsh, and thank you both for joining us today. let me, let me ask you both, and i'll start with jacob. what are you trying to achieve in, in these protests right now, what does this mean to you personally? and then we'd love to hear the same from harsha. yeah, and the so we 1st and foremost want to end the genocide that is relevant, inflicting on the costs and in people's, tens of thousands of cars, the needs of emerg, bye, what incense to it by the united states government and are not just our government and that is, but it is our institution, it is the university. i'm not sure why that is also be complicit because it is
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invested in the state of israel as all arguments on campus is 1st and foremost, financial disclosure and trans guarantee. so that we can actually see how the university isn't about and it's my cell is 2 boys, all valid products. there is but the image and assignments and put the application in a part time. and then finally the need full. they pass me from the state of israel, jacob, jacob, real quick. why did this become such a personal issue for you that your risking your academic standing, your risking being arrested? what, what about this issue? resonated for you personally? it comes into play just being in the united states and but listening this and see how them my tax dollars. and they are going to fund the sites and going to find the patient in a hard time. also because binds us and my and they are using judaism or their weapon, actually my religion to come in master trust. and so those are like, personally what we're letting me do this to this. thank you. a harsh i'm i would
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love to hear what's motivating you at this moment. yeah, i think a big thing for me has to be frustrated and i have a feeling living in the united states. the yes, the city. and hopefully this is how political by this country seems so vast and supporting israel despite it's brian, you know, the 2 weeks ago or because you go and then the paragraphs, i think 49. so 49 percent, i think is really the beginning of genocide. only 90, it's way over 21 percent thing is there is not meaning a genocide and then the rest of the insurance. so if you just look into that right, base bar or more than the thing that is really is to me thinking genocide versus does it go? yeah, the way to go in congress and the bill of sending $70000000000.00 is relative continues genocide. we saw 4750. you democrats have decided that you bought, assigned it. and the majority of democrats live in the house. uh,
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so we see this disconnected. well, with the americans. i think it where a lot of americans are saying is media genocide of the cross out of the openness. yeah. so i'm happy to be listed in those 5. i want to make, we want to be like this, like our, our ality is more important than our own academic success. we will not sell a reality for us to ship or, or a government that is willing to sell. so and then i just added that like our sacrifices are so minor to parents and like what other people are meeting that like we are, i completely ran to do whatever it takes to get these demands. matt, and he will not stop until our demands are not. and until we see see, and housing and freedom in house and you know, the reason i'm just interested, are you seeing violence? are you seeing anti semitic groups as part of your movement? i mean, tell us what that texture looks like. yeah, yeah. i can, i can take this, the only violence that we see is the violence of police and against us. we are
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peaceful. we were just edited cabinet. we or e sign, the coordinates of the university that we did was have a sense of law. and the only bias that occurred is when the police officers brutally rated the incoming calls people cabinets of the ground. one of us was there strongly with this located. they ran across the ground and subjected to the brutal treatment. so really, the only finance that we see is on the end of the police and also that kind of professors because behind the police guess what kind of weight is what are the chancellor? the chancellor, every minute or 3 days out there at the police are pushing people over straight. afraid people with the type of sprint and tapping people in wheelchairs. you're not wheelchairs right behind this line, a police doing this, but horrible riddle. refreshing is our chancellor or chancellor was very nice. it'd be, find him, are people holding the is rarely flat and holding in the mirror way. and with that, the only violence is the university is the police and is the counter professors.
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and i just want to say one more thing because you asked about and decided to them. and i just want to say that i and yours and i had never once witnessed nor experienced any anti semitism, because movies are costing you literally say, we are a little bit for democracy for quality, for justice proliferation. we tell him, no thanks a patriot at our intent meant we have to box services. we have many jewish people, their menu, us, the safety, and all the organizations are us. and the fact that they are using us. that'd be facebook, which isn't in our lease. but if you want to bother me up, certainly bleeding boss, and the reason that they're doing this is because they are trying to silence us. they are going to suppress our movements. and they are kind of near us an estimate . and they're writing this whole thing about it. and this is maxine washington, you're just using this. the field is helping criticism. and i want to say that right and type in place sign is a, is not at this time is, is that right? pulled up. thank you. harsh him,
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i want to ask you an unfair question. what is different about this moment? we're all of a sudden it college campuses across the united states. palestine is front page above the fold and it's got the attention of the nation in a way. i've never seen in my life. i just the basic way here. first of all i thing, uh, is there a i've just gone like, you know, i think is relevant to say and then committing atrocities for 75 years. it's never gospel. this is just to you for so that they feel empowered because they've been propelled by years, the never being busted for their actions. and it's just, i think that every, so we're sending okay, would draw the line of assets. but now we have, we can see information organizer to seems information and we get a very different way and we are seeing what's happening on the ground. and gosh, we see what's happening. and i think in the past that was always, she was by a certain, by a media perspective, whether or not because it was kind of stuff. right. i want to play a clip for you of former president donald trump commenting about all of you and get
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your reaction. let's listen to every college rosen and i say remove the in tap and so immediately vanquish the radicals and take back our campuses for all as a normal one, a safe place from which to learn. that was former president, maybe future president, donald trump. what are your reactions to that and what is his? how does his notion of normally students compare to the 2 of you passion or the disagree with, but really it's just students standing up against the dentist. i mean, it was really a rally, a bunch of a bunch of people around it and development started can suggest life jobs inside jo . this saw i'm look back and then there beside him and he said they're not, they're not at all. so the things that joe sporting goods as i based on wednesday and based on what he said is that right? yeah,
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he's mad that we're progressing and i thought i'd like to make that excess. so, you know, using, and i also don't really care with the things if you could do it for all i can, but it isn't using that. they just try and use us do uh, to get his base, you know, right. uh, yeah, and i want, besides that our movement is a mass and doesn't mean it is so popular on campus. we had aaron cabinet at one point, we had those, the 1500 peebles, this is so popular and how well and so many students on campus were getting involved. so we're not the minority we part of the majority of students were committed to deliveries in the palestine. and you can see this by how many people turned out to support us. and by yes, all the and then all the community supported and yeah, it is, it is really upsetting the state of business. i've some sort of friends thing. we represent the majority here. yeah. i like to go go ahead. yeah, the way that we are destructing operations and this fall i think you're just
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talking about i could just have the tennis and the 2nd of all the parts of those, those are the power needs to be accessible in the process. but all of their saw, i knew that they took that off a cabinet, but it'd be built as the, the jews barricade barricade where they got it was so no one can use that space either way. but wow, campus right now, they're walking in the middle of this red zone. they have a record, the student barricades all around and all around is black to protect the american class and there are no 6. it is humorous everywhere. there are security lights everywhere. there was like a mine resisted uh like uh, on vehicle romeo ranch campus. yeah. let me ask you just finally and very quickly as you see yourselves and you see your campus in the future, are you going to see any ability of people who are on different sides of this equation and feel differently in this moment? able to sit down and engage in civil discourse, engage in education,
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about this moment. i'm happy to sit down with the degree with but there's a lot of if you're supporting this i, i am not interested in talking to you. you know, you know, definitely that's like it asking us like, oh, would you like to sit down with white supremacists or do you not these on get this? no, it's not big enough people i'm interested in speaking to in there are people who, you know, disagree with the same. what is it is. ready is for david, those people, but there is what is the just and forgivable and you know, if we can move past the care, probably be best that will be good. yeah, jacob, i'll give you the last word. but i would like to say one final thing to a chance or cancel or cancel it leave, or it's that it's on you. history will not remember you find history will remember you for your powerless figure in absence and for your complexity and horrible atrocities and crimes. against humanity, and also i want to add it. i just need to know this,
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and i've also because you're choosing us again for someone to them. i just want to say that, but i want you to take a model of your man's well hi simon jacob with students for justice in palestine at the university of north carolina at chapel hill. thank you so much for being with us. it appreciate it. thank you. and now we turned to michelle, the golf professor of linguistics at the massachusetts institute of technology. dr . digraph. thank you so much for joining us today. your campus is now one of the other many campus, nearly a 100 campuses in the united states that having cabinets and protests right now about what's happening in gaza. what are you seeing right now at mit in cambridge? massachusetts actually disconnects that. i just heard this sound almost exactly like doing that, but i know that there might be the very can reduce to them. and i myself, i can think about this put in to put test it gets identified. i feel about being,
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are the moral can fit into moral compass about tennessee physically and i truly, in october of last year, i've been inspired and haughton by then i really think that gets the 3 moment in the history of us higher education actually giving you health and encouragement inspired by the students that we just heard a few, n b, but those right here. and just to me a to make a doctor graph and you have just written a letter to the president of m i t. your employer in boss are basically challenging her framing of these protests. and just in short form, you will have implied and said to her that her framing is actually dangerous to the students that and she has been framing these peaceful protests and peaceful students that you've been seeing as violent as anti semitic. tell us more about this letter consistently. what you sent you back the from that symmetry and the
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weight in which a president, i mean, the reason i'm treat the students were protesting against the general side issues. those were support israel and it's constant. just slash choose a big group of faculty who are supporting us today. we met with the president and, and we've been, we're very give me actually and because every people just me things that we have come to spend that these products, they are fighting for something which is dear to the, to put them. i think logistics and they're putting a look at risk and some of them have that many deputy too and got the what being murdered. so we have to understand where they're coming from. they're coming from the place of pain, looking for justice and, and a better this morning. even the use of pronoun she referred to, the students for contact with testing. actually they took out that process was
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sponsored by none other than did the randy come? so they basically is a come to protest new it might be sponsored by the inside the government. and we got heard just a couple of weeks ago from none are the independent experiences on yahoo. describing the students was fighting against the general side. you describe this prevents as if they were like german ninety's in the 1930, i could not be given that the prime minister actually, the graduates of it might be describing students were begging m i. d to start a computer teen and don't hide describing them as if they were met the, and so forth. i was shocked by that, but then this morning when i read that it puts it in was concerned about 2 weeks for a 2 hour is ready in 2 weeks. good in an hour, but in fact, it is appropriate to get to the side. yeah, many jury students, so there's a group called m i d, jews for the fire inspector at present this morning. i think of it and it was some
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beautiful song can keep room. and it may be just about despite logistics, especially the reason for being out there also thought we would do is community. so when she said that she needs to, that, that, this group, this is what this left for the project for the protection, for the support of our doing. just getting ready to minutes to basically read you raise the joyce. good. it was also fighting for, but i didn't lie function in 50. if the so i was actually quite hurried to pay it because i, i've, i've been, we've been about 4 or 4 months. all right. then then i've heard the cries, i've had to obtain. and for them to be a re, she didn't even mention what police package didn't mention that, but it's to me. and as if the thought that exist, you'll see end up paying the big fees. but the type of the name they are fighting against a dignified, been fighting against them on the right. helping her daughter, michelle. one of the things that i think some of the observers and,
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and critics on national cable tv had been saying, uh, is that this, these protests are animated, supported, put in motion by outside are groups that these are not authentically students. they are not authentically professor, but these are the instigators around the nation. i'd love to hear your response to that. but that, that's why people, because i've been, i've been made to now for 28 years. so it's kind of right run a cruising of that. this group has these professes are being instigated by what's it outside of imagine i haven't been here. i've been teaching here for 20 years, and this is what i've been, i've been getting excited keeps books out to, you know, there's a, it's some of my favorite track is what it's called black meadows. and the other one is called career languages and keeping identity. and in my class a couple of years ago, i had a student from penny sign. this has been tour. is it one of one of our projects
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with it? what's the stand? the is 3 co. larry 2 between what, what happened to hate c. h s. we have a way to genocide. we have 254. i'll be ration, west west states or do you many to rectify, to get to the advisor. but we have lots of connections between 8 and 25. and in the sense we teach, right to dictate this course and back my to as well. so kids about the reason about that and play them about occupation. and as soon as through then i just put the best way i could professor, i couldn't be teaching about maybe risk, i'm getting about digging like this and, and i see students in the forefront of actual be there isn't actually thinking like based on and then 23 not, and of course these are my 2 students. this is the best, this is the best that they might be can offer in terms of intellectual. but the kitchen, the content, mad, you know, the content delivery to build, you know, just words. if you spend half an hour talking to the students,
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they're what they're doing, they're creating a better future future. where are these pinions you're trying to use if they want to join us? don't. ready truth 10, build, then you something new together, the future of love and be for everyone. actually, the minutes when i talk about police 10 would be free from the re book a dispute. what they mean is that what he's doing in will be they still treated as the class citizens. they want them to be like it, frankly, they want them to have freedom. and just if i'm going to be the dispute, it's a cause for universal justice. i'm just wondering from your experience, what's the, what's that moment or spark that finally brought this to the forefront in a way that just hasn't happened for decades as well. i think we have to big that on yahoo for these moments. you see because it's on the who, it's a bit like the trunk. you see, for example from columbine. if you've country because it's a cool country because 18 whole country. but the truck has been so clear about
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these patriot. both the black people, for example, for african. right. and if it's something that we've been finding out who link on how goes on creatures to call. but it's janine to them and the allies fighting against the dentist bag when it, when you compare them to the not the it's showing that's clearly what he said about . it's probably about protecting jewish people talking about, you know, and i think interesting because then it's about ro power. right? and it's clear that he doesn't care about jewish people because if he did, he would have kids come to this thing, but a good number to reach students. what in line with the students from parties, banks and then from the company. we also asking for an end to these down production patient. so we cannot open a heart to the pin of one group. then truce a heart beat up your group. if you feel when, when,
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when it gets within who caused good, it might be. if you put something out in the open, this type of bad, they've been good rhetoric of a history that they did. in fact, my, my, my colleague professor reads the lady. i've written the book about actually she many people as well about this in this community except bothering with the fact that it needs reading the school system. big just that there is a children that to be out to paper. this can you from the, from a very young age. in fact jacket paper called the notification of british canyon and append to what you know, he's doing now. what is going on, peter, what he's doing in god that is showing us the clearly the fact that he's capable of identified it. so just some just got that. yeah, we should go back to the history of a history of the treaty center this picture because, i mean, here, i mean, i have begun, you know, he's been close spent, you know, these d, even a vision, but the skinny and cutting them insects, cutting them tree kept cutting them all kinds of terrible names. do you mean
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anything then it's not a new thing, right? facebook, they've, they've had it. i've never known it and i'm tired. so i see that's different, the premiums that of up to committee, that gives you notes. you try to do is you're less that you see, and let's go ahead and defend that. so what keeps for example, but i just mentioned about the history of direction to get the american citizen to spend the making of the, of these advocates of power. and so therefore, we have prepared now to see what's happening to the police pinion and see whether it's a cost for all of us. we can not be studying the history of activity in the us. and so i looked up in a to do so, but it's giving you the right, right, well, well, we'll have to leave it there. thank you so much for joining us. profession michelle . the graph at the massachusetts institute of technology where thank you very much for inviting me and thank you for i was so hutton to hear the students from you in the so thank you for giving them as boys sixpence the. the deep spend of running
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the interesting that week because of the faculty need to be inspired by any to we need to basically take it to the next level. thank you. thanks so much. so what's the bottom line? the rise of tens of thousands of students in more than 30 us states is going to go down in the nation's history side by side with the protests, against the vietnam war. and the boy caught accidents against apartheid south africa after 8 months of non stop is really devastation in gaza, killing with impunity and with no serious attempts to stop it. students in america have just said enough is enough. all the attempts to smear them is now eve or brain wash or hateful or irrelevant to the daring and bold authenticity of the students and faculty. protests joe biden says, this movement isn't compelling him to change his mind about his policy on israel or palestine. but other americans are starting to question their own long standing ideas. many are becoming much more aware of the issues and raising their voices for justice. and that's the bottom line
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success in making this and such as reducing marine plastic waste and promoting recycling. a 106 kilometers, stretch of remote and powerless jungle. only land route to south america for migrants, tequila side of the united states. a voyage, but for some is their loss. none the less for accomplice families, it's a risk they are willing to take full lines in box on this unforgiving journey to tell the story of one of the children of the barium go on up jersey to what's out of their existence. it slowly shifts as a principle present, as, as a correspondence with any breaking the story we want to hear from those people who with normally not get that voice is heard on the international news channels. one moment i'll be very proud all was when we covered the, the full last week of 2015 at the terrible natural disaster. the story that needed
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to be told from the hall of the affected area to be then to tell the people story. it was very important at the time the
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of israel takes control of the rest of border crossing, preventing the entry of a trucks on the departure of injured palestinians to be waiting for treatment approach the that one carry johnston. this is out just a real nice from day, also coming up, making a mistake. a full scale assault on vasa would be a human catastrophe. un secretary general contains the closure of border crossings into thousands.

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