00:00 End Israeli Apartheid!
00:07 Student strike for Palestine!
00:10 Victory to the Palestinians!
00:12 It's happening on campus right now.
00:14 We're going to march around.
00:16 Glasgow U needs shame on you!
00:18 We have blood on your hands too!
00:20 Glasgow U needs shame on you!
00:22 We have blood on your hands too!
00:24 Hi, my name's Shawnee. I'm a student here at the University of Glasgow.
00:27 I'm here today because we've called a student strike
00:31 to show solidarity with the people of Palestine
00:34 and to make a statement against the University's
00:37 investment in arms and fossil fuels
00:40 and its complacency in the war that's currently going on just now.
00:44 While we're assembling outside the main gates,
00:47 I'm going to go right around the University.
00:49 We're going to make our voices heard.
00:51 We're going to make sure that everyone knows what we're thinking.
00:54 The University is complicit
00:57 and it's not making a clear statement either way,
01:00 so it's important that as a student you make your voice heard
01:04 and you stand up for the people of Palestine.
01:08 Glasgow U needs shame on you!
01:10 We have blood on your hands too!
01:12 I think it's happening in Edinburgh and London
01:17 and across different places in the UK as well.
01:20 This has actually been a weekly occurrence now
01:25 and we're going to keep going until something changes.
01:28 We've had a lot of support from students.
01:30 Last week we had about 300 join us, which was great to see.
01:34 Hopefully we'll have a big crowd today as well.
01:37 I think like any reasonable human being,
01:40 when you see the death of 3,500 civilians
01:44 that's ongoing and is being defended by the mainstream media,
01:49 you feel like you have to do something about it,
01:52 or at least say something about it.
01:54 We're here to demand an end to the siege of Gaza
01:58 and a ceasefire now because 300 Palestinians
02:02 are dying every day under bombardment.
02:05 The Israelis have dropped more bombs on Palestine
02:09 than the US did during the first year of their invasion of Afghanistan.
02:14 Think about that for a minute.
02:16 More bombs in three weeks than the US could drop in a year
02:20 in a space that is 10km wide.
02:24 Think about that.
02:25 One of the most densely populated places on earth
02:29 where half the population are children.
02:32 So we are out today to challenge British complicity.
02:36 Yesterday marked the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration
02:39 when the British Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary in 1917,
02:43 gave part launch to the Settler Colonial Project.
02:46 The UK is Israel's fourth largest arms supplier.
02:51 Elbit Systems has 10 sites across the UK
02:54 and supplies 85% of Israel's land military equipment.
03:00 Brands like Puma, McDonald's, Domino's,
03:03 all complicit in Israeli apartheid.
03:06 And that is why we are here today
03:08 and that is why we have to be out on Saturday
03:13 in our hundreds of thousands rejecting the response
03:16 of the British ruling class to this crisis.
03:20 Suella Braverman calls our marches hate marches.
03:23 These aren't hate marches.
03:25 These are solidarity marches.
03:27 [Cheering]
03:29 [Music]
03:35 [BLANK_AUDIO]
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