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From the Encampments: Student Reflections on Protests for Palestine (2024)

2011-Present, Blockade/Barricade, Date, Defining the Enemy, Disruptive Spaces, Imperialism, Institutions, Occupation, Tactics of Disruption

This document features reflections from students at Columbia Law, City University of New York (CUNY) Law, New York Law, and Yale Law students, offering firsthand accounts and analyses of the motivations, demands, and experiences within the student encampments protesting their universities’ financial ties to Israel and the ongoing conflict in Gaza. The sources also highlight the historical context of student activism, drawing parallels to past divestment movements, and argue that universities are deeply intertwined with global and local systems of capitalism, gentrification, and imperialism, which the protests aim to disrupt.

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Stanford “Reorientation Guide” (2009)

1990-2010, Date, Disruptive Spaces, Institutions, Students, Subjectives of Refusal

Published in 2009 by student activists, this Stanford University “Reorientation Guide” did an in depth analysis of the history of Stanford University in relation to racism, sexism, and capitalism.

The history of Stanford University contains many parts. The purpose of this guide is to tell a part of the story and our history that isn’t often heard. As Stanford students, we are often told that we can change the world and make it a better place, if we try hard enough. Well, we can also make Stanford a better place. The history of student activism at this school is incredibly rich. As students, we have a degree of power and that power can be (and has been) used to lead to positive change, both on our campus and in the local community.

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