- 2 months ago
Recorded on location. I had to use a high-pass filter and extreme levels of amplification to correct the notoriously low volume and unbalanced equaliser levels. I did get distracted at one point by an arrest, which resulted in missing a few speeches under the canopy of the two buildings.
All in all, this student run demonstration was a success without police interference whatsoever (except the one arrest).
I didn't include music in the short timelapsed marches this time, so the original audio was left intact.
All in all, this student run demonstration was a success without police interference whatsoever (except the one arrest).
I didn't include music in the short timelapsed marches this time, so the original audio was left intact.
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00:29Yeah, that's what we're looking for.
00:59Yeah, that's what we're looking for.
01:29Yeah, that's what we're looking for.
01:58That we're at a time when everyone is going to stand up and everyone is going to know that this is a fucking genocide and that our country is complicit in it.
02:10That we are not only complicit, but cannot be participating in a genocide.
02:15That as indigenous people, day in and day out, we see this country in validating our truth and the very lived reality that we are experiencing.
02:37The deaths that we are experiencing at the hands of this country, and yet we persist.
02:47From Palestine, we will share your thoughts with you.
03:21clearly shows TMU's complicity in the ongoing occupation, ethnic cleansing, and genocide
03:27enacted by the Zionist regime and its collaborators.
03:30And in addition, TMU's critical role in the rise of anti-Palestinian racism on this campus.
03:36This outrage for the assault of the students is amazing.
03:39We'd love to see you all here.
03:41But we must ask a critical question.
03:43Why is there more outrage about this one student
03:48than there has been over the past two years of genocide?
03:51Where is this outrage for TMU's investments in the genocide of over half a million Palestinians?
04:00We ask not to judge or shame but to call attention to the reality of our current situation.
04:05We have become desensitized to the suffering of Palestinians.
04:09But as long as they experience occupation,
04:12as long as the settlers following oppressions and ancestral people of Palestine,
04:15we must not stay silent.
04:17We cannot afford to be desensitized when our loved ones in Palestine continue to be shot,
04:22bombed, burned, dismembered, starved, abducted, and tortured.
04:25We must continue showing up.
04:27The students who were brutalized appreciate the immense support she has received.
04:32But knowing her, I can say this.
04:34What she wants more than anything is for people to speak up for Palestine in the same way that they are doing for her.
04:40We also want to recognize that our struggles are interconnected.
04:50We know that the Zionist regime is not just after Palestine.
04:53We have seen them bomb Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iran.
04:58We have seen them bombs at all.
05:00We have seen them bombs at all.
05:01We have seen them bombs at all.
05:02We have seen them bombs so many places.
05:03And yes, we have seen how the world is silenced.
05:05So we do, we ask that keep this rage inside your heart.
05:11But don't just be rapeful because this student could be you one day.
05:14Be rapeful because this institution is protecting its investment in genocide.
05:19In genocide!
05:20This заним works for your solidarity in Palestine, and for its people and herself.
05:32From students, colleagues, thank you for coming together to express your solidarity and support
05:39for one of our own students and to voice your concerns
05:42over TAMU's continuous indifference to and neglecting of pain and trauma
05:49Israel's ongoing genocide in Uzziah inflicts on many Palestinian students and employees.
05:55As you are gathered to protest the brutal, cowardly, and unwarranted attack on a female TAMU student
06:02for the crime of peacefully protesting and out of genocide that continues to rain pain, suffering, and mass slaughter on TAMU people,
06:11we are reminded that we live and function in a racist system that acts against Palestinians and against Palestinians' human rights.
06:24What makes this unprovoked assault especially painful is that it demonstrates TAMU's disregard for the right of Palestinians to protest
06:34for their immense trauma they carry over the daily mass slaughter of their people and loved ones.
06:40This incident is not only a grave injustice but also a reflection of TAMU's hypocrisy and double standards.
06:51This power-sign exception is shameful and needs to end.
06:54For years, TAMU has killed a reputation of the abstainment of social justice, anti-oppression, and anti-colonialism.
07:07TAMU was told to believe that this claim applies to all and that TAMU was genuinely about these values.
07:15However, TAMU's poor response on the ongoing genocide in Gaza, including this incident, is shameful.
07:24Handling of Zionist proclamation campaigns against some of the pro-Palestine troops and employees, myself included,
07:30have proven that those values have proven that those values are nothing more than performative acts and a cliche.
07:37TAMU has failed the Palestine side.
07:40During the course of this horrific genocide, Israel has committed a well-documented policide in Gaza.
07:47It's just dramatically destroyed all universities and all post-second security institutions in all schools.
07:57And it killed and jailed tens of thousands of healthy teachers, scholars, and students.
08:02In three academic years in a row, students in Gaza are left with no education.
08:09Instead of clearly denouncing their scholars and offering support to a converse scholarship in Palestine,
08:17TAMU has appeared to be sold to decide against a marginalized version of those institutions in Gaza.
08:24As someone with deep personal ties to Palestine,
08:31the absurdly zoning by them,
08:33who have faced death, injury, and displacement,
08:36home demolition, starvation, and other secure assets,
08:40this incident is a special political aid center.
08:43Therefore, I demand that both of us have followed you to the folks.
08:47Unarmed minority female students must be held accountable.
08:51And that it shall provide them with the support they need and proclaim.
09:05Including the dissemination of those unsкArthur allegations against them.
09:10In closing, please keep talking about Palestine, call out the complicity in genocide and fall
09:24for an end to the opposition.
09:26Your advocacy and protest brings a closer and ending this before.
09:31We will now be listening to a couple of professors who stand in solidarity with us today.
09:46Here's a little big round of applause.
10:01I will speak to them and say, our institutions are not us.
10:28He and me does not represent us.
10:32Our role in society is more than that.
10:37Our role in society is more than that.
10:39As professors, we are here to support students, to enable spaces where they can grow,
10:44and to a world perhaps you and I do not yet fully understand.
10:48While these institutions do not represent us and we should not be loyal to them,
10:53our loyalty as educators should always lead to the idea of education
10:57as a right for all.
10:59And the university is a place for individual and collective transformation and liberation,
11:09that is, by Skiapdor.
11:11Being neutral as an academic amidst a historical student movement against the genocide that is being attacked by institutions like TNU,
11:20is actively deciding to become a tool in aiding the racist capitalist colonial agendas of Western universities and states alike.
11:32That is how powerful the role of professors are.
11:34You could choose to be on the side of oppression or liberation.
11:38We are probably discussing TBI, students, keeping certainness, equity, all the words that feel good.
11:54Make profit.
11:56I call on everyone present today to not allow institutions and individuals to get away with profiting from feel-good equity words without them being committed to action.
12:08Also a PhD and graduate students. Whenever any professor talks about social justice decolonization, ask them what it is that they do in action on and off campus.
12:27They got it to you, and then you decided to go protest. There's a scuttler, colonial violence, really ethnically planting a whole of people, so you decided because of them to go and protest.
12:48And then the security on campus dragged you, handcuffed you, got the police on you.
12:54Ask them whether or not they would show up. And where were they today? And what's the point of all this learning if you can't ask?
13:12It's important, and I think we and others have mentioned that, to stop this hypocrisy of making profit out of our bodies and bringing us in and making money of us.
13:23And just submit to action. Whoever is not acting, let's not just...
13:28Zero!
13:29Institutions and...
13:30Woo!
13:31I'm going to project loudly because I hear that I'm glad I'm here. This way, even louder, even louder this day, I'll try.
13:47So, we're standing here today as faculty members who are outraged, outraged at TMU Campus Securities' use of force against a student last Friday.
14:00We expressed full solidarity with the wrong student, and with all students, all of you today here, who have taken the moral stance of speaking out loudly against the genocide.
14:13It was that.
14:14The use of force against the student was horrifying and killing because TMU Campus Security is supposed to keep students safe.
14:32And instead, we have a situation where a couple of campus security officers attack the student so brutally and so violently that they're so hard.
14:47But that was a part.
14:48Sure!
14:49As a professor of criminology, who teaches about unjust use of force and criminalization, I'm specially appalled that this happened on our campus.
15:03Shame!
15:04Shame!
15:05Since last fall, and in fact, for the last year, faculty have addressed TMU Administration asking them to deal with the presence of militia groups on campus.
15:21Militia groups like Martin Harut that take pride in the use of violence, that violently attacked the York University students only last week.
15:30Shame!
15:31Shame!
15:32Shame!
15:33Shame!
15:34The same group was seen here on TMU Campus two weeks ago.
15:37Shame!
15:38Shame!
15:39Shame!
15:40Shame!
15:41So our administration and our campus security doesn't have the capacity to do anything about
15:47death, but are all too willing to attack our own students.
15:51Shame!
15:52Shame!
15:53Shame!
15:54Shame!
15:55Shame!
15:56Shame!
15:57Shame!
15:58Shame!
15:59Shame!
16:00We are not speaking out about an ongoing genocide in Vazzaa.
16:05A genocide which has not been named by TMU or the Canadian government or the mainstream press.
16:13Shame!
16:14Shame!
16:15This is in the face of when the UN, the Association of Genocide Scholars and human rights organizations have all called it a genocide.
16:27A genocide that is live streamed on social media, that has seen Israel starve and bomb people, reduce
16:34to a rubble, destroy all kinds of universities, assassinate journalists and doctors with impunity, and like all colonial cops, make plans to carve it up.
16:46Shame!
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16:48Shame!
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17:11Unknown Speaker
17:12You can't read meth.
17:13I can't read.
17:14Nothing.
17:15All right.
17:16The B DARCIA rolling out to the truth in the world, the Chinese and most scientists have
17:20suspected of whether we are not in the world.
17:21And we are in the world, of all European, and the world as the countries are.
17:22We are representing the world as the world of their society to be a great city.
17:23investigation of the security protocols at the event on Friday. How can an event, a
17:29highest event that's supposed to celebrate democracy, end up in violent use of force
17:34against a student expressing dissent? Shame.
17:41Faculty have also come to learn the TMU administration is pursuing disciplinary action against this student.
17:50What a farce!
17:56We demand that TMU immediately drop any disciplinary or other charges facing the student.
18:01We hope, we hope that this will be a learning moment where TMU will finally find the courage to say and do the right thing.
18:20We expect no less than the university to speak up against the genocide, against anti-Palestinian racism, and restructured security practices in collaboration with its community and the union.
18:32At last, I say this to TMU. Have a spine. Break the chain. Justice now for Palestine.
18:40Omar from the Canadian Federation of Students Ontario. He's a representative of the National Executive Representative.
18:47He's a national representative.
18:49He's a national representative.
18:51of the Canadian Federation of Students Ontario.
19:02We are the oldest and largest student organization across the entire province, representing over 350,000 students.
19:15We fight for a free and accessible education for all, knowing that our education is constantly deprioritized.
19:22Education is a public good. Education is a human right.
19:28We access post-secondary education to broaden our horizons, connect across communities, and sharpen our joint struggle.
19:37Rather than investing in our educational experience, our institutions remain chronically and intentionally underfunded.
19:45And despite that, our institutions instead prioritize investments in weapons and arms manufacturers,
19:52fossil fuels, and imperialism.
19:54Shame!
19:55All to manufacture our consent by investing our tuition in companies that further the occupation
20:06and genocide of the Palestinian people.
20:11Shame!
20:12Despite two years of ongoing genocide and manufactured famine and continuous displacement,
20:19our institutions and elected officials continue to refuse to act.
20:25When students demand divestment, we are met with violence and threats.
20:30The attack we witness here at TMU is part of a larger pattern
20:35where institutions violently suppress Palestinian advocacy while their complicity continues.
20:42Shame!
20:43Students have constantly said that police have no place in our education.
20:50Cops and so-called campus safety do not make our campuses safer.
20:55Their presence only ensures that the state can monitor, report, and attack students like we just witnessed.
21:02When students protest against a genocide and expose their elected officials,
21:09security are trained to physically grab, lift, and throw students around.
21:14Once again, all in protection of a genocide that these institutions are complacent in.
21:21Shame!
21:22We as students and our education are not their priority.
21:29Their priorities instead are in fact profits over people, furthering the occupation and genocide of the Palestinian people,
21:39the destruction of our world and climate, and the shielding of genocide apologists on our campuses.
21:46All at the expense of students and our student experience.
21:51Shame!
21:52Shame!
21:53As students, we are sick of hearing condemnation after condemnation.
21:58We demand action!
22:01We demand an end to our institution's complicity in all forms.
22:11The full disclosure and divestment from any company or institution, furthering the genocide of the Palestinian people.
22:18The removal of campus security and police from our campuses.
22:22And an end to the repression and brutalization of students.
22:27As we fight for an end to this genocide and a better future for all of us.
22:32Students have always been at the forefront of collective struggle and solidarity efforts.
22:41Whether it is the boycotting against the South African apartheid or protesting against the Vietnam invasion.
22:48Students have paved the way for collective struggles time and time again.
22:54Despite the active role the government and our institutions play in furthering this genocide.
23:00Despite the literal beatings that students have to take while we are on the front lines.
23:06We come back time and time again.
23:10Because when we are already struggling to pay tuition.
23:14And said tuition is being used to fund a genocide.
23:18Also, been experiencing the repression for over two years now.
23:22I'm going to welcome her.
23:31Hello everyone.
23:32Thank you for coming together in solidarity against the violent student repression that Palestinian and pro-Palestinian students have been facing.
23:43I am here to say that we the students refuse to begin another academic school year at this grossly complicit institution.
23:53We will not accept business as usual when Palestinians are facing the worst stages of this genocide as we speak.
24:07When our university towers away when confronted about its unapplicable investments.
24:14Shame.
24:15Shame.
24:16Shame.
24:17Shame.
24:18Shame.
24:19Where lay When their classmates are being targeted, harassed, surveilled, threatened and brutalized on this very campus.
24:20Shame.
24:21Shame.
24:22Shame.
24:23threatened and brutalized on this very campus.
24:31Because they dare to speak out against DMU's simplicity in the genocide of Palestinians.
24:40The violent student repression that we all witnessed last Friday was not an isolated incident.
24:47It was a horrifying symptom of anti-Palestinian racism that the DMU administration has allowed to run rampant on our campus and in our academic spaces.
24:59Shame!
25:03Over the past few years, students on this campus have been organizing and protesting against the university's simplicity in the genocide of Palestinians.
25:13We have been demanding full disclosure of the university's financial holdings and total divestment from the Zionist entity.
25:23The DMU administration has done nothing except make a conservative effort to deceive its students and the larger community through disingenuous statements,
25:34bad big communications, and claim live shame.
25:37In April of this year, the DMU administration allowed a student-recognized group to welcome two IOM war criminals onto our campus.
25:54The administration was made aware of this disgusting propaganda event and still allowed it to take place.
26:00In fact, TMU security responded to the event hosting these war criminals to protect them.
26:10Shame!
26:15Despite all of the concerns raised, including over 1,200 emails sent in a petition campaign to the DMU administration to get SSI and IOS off of our campus,
26:25our provost and vice president Roberta denied that it ever took place on campus.
26:32Shame!
26:38The allowance of war criminals onto our campus is nothing but a despicable disregard for the protection of Palestinians in our community.
26:48Shame!
26:49Shame!
26:52Years from now, this allowance will be looked upon by the university as nothing short of abominable.
26:58In the meantime, while the university continues to do absolutely nothing to address anti-Palestinian racism on our campus,
27:06and rather protects such displays of it, this institution will continue to revel in its colonial reputation.
27:12The university administration knows what their jobs are and what their responsibilities entail.
27:23But ultimately, they continue to ignore their students, neglect their duties, and fail to uphold TMU's supposed values.
27:33Shame!
27:34Shame!
27:35TMU administration has nothing but time on their hands. They want to wait us out. They hope that we tire ourselves from all of our efforts and that Palestine will become a forgotten headline in the media.
27:50But let us be absolutely clear.
27:54We, the students, and the larger community who have joined us today, are not organizing for today, tomorrow, or even this year alone.
28:03We are a part of a student-led movement that spans across decades and various struggles against oppression.
28:14The student-led movement against South African apartheid took decades to achieve total divestment, and we carry that memory forward with us.
28:24What propels us to keep going is knowing that we are empowered by the masses and history itself.
28:29We look to the BDS movement, civil rights, anti-war movement, and the ongoing indigenous land-backed movement to anchor us in our fight.
28:40My message to President Muhammad Lashami is this.
28:46Students, faculty, and community members, and our unions will continue to show up in the face of this repression.
28:57We are mobilizing!
29:01Diana is the MOPOR champion!
29:04Brian is the MOPOR champion!
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32:04Look.
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32:07Make sure.
32:13All right.
32:17We're going to have seven minutes.
32:19We will continue demanding a better future.
32:47We will continue demanding a better future.
32:50We will continue demanding positive liberation.
32:53And we will continue demanding the end of separate colonialism worldwide.
33:12We will continue demanding a better future of the Algerian National Liberation Front, France-Canon.
33:18Each generation must, out of relative security, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.
33:25President Lashemi and Tianyu have betrayed our future, have betrayed millions of Palestinians.
33:31And we are here to make things clear.
33:33We will not betray our future.
33:35We will continue to wrestle us out of the hands of the past.
33:39They have support, alhamdulillah.
33:47But we want to let you know that this is directly a result of the numbers that we have here today.
33:52As we are together, we are faithful.
34:02We have two speakers here.
34:07We have one from McMaster University with SPHR.
34:11McMaster University has faith.
34:18The students have faith a lot over questions.
34:21And she is here today to tell their story.
34:24I am a student at McMaster University speaking on behalf of the Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights Group, McMaster SPHR.
34:45Our organization has existed since the 90s, defending Palestinian sovereignty and standing as one of the only few student groups representing the student in default on campus currently.
35:00I am more than displeased to say that the genocide enablers that make up our university administration have suspended us for two years.
35:13And that is not counting the nine months of suspension that preceded us before the official ban.
35:22And I believe that their crimes can outlive our cause.
35:26That they can criminalize dissent and anything that frightens their capital interests.
35:31Having their mercenaries write institutional policies to suppress and punish students who demand justice.
35:38They think that they can frighten our communities, invite Zionists onto our campuses, and funnel our tax dollars to companies that sustain themselves off of genocide.
35:53Like L3 Harris, Lockheed Martin, Saffron, Northrop Grumman, Textron, Oshkosh.
35:59I am disgusted to read these names out loud.
36:02And I am sickened by the cowardice of our academic institutions.
36:06Using racism as a cover for capitalism.
36:09Choosing regression and brutalization upon their students to further fund a genocide.
36:15Shame!
36:16What happened to our beloved comrade on TMU grounds was a shameful violation of our right to assemble and protest university investments.
36:29And our right to question who our institutions choose to host on our campuses.
36:36I salute every single student who attended the disgusting MP Evan Solomon's forum.
36:42Showing up and asking the right questions.
36:45Which is our responsibility to bless them.
36:48And we can promise them that for every MP they host, we will be there to speak for VESA.
37:03And we will always ask why our institutions are funding a genocide and why they have been digested.
37:11We will ask what our university leaders and our MPs are doing to stop this genocide as it is our right.
37:19And we will make them uncomfortable because genocide should make you uncomfortable.
37:32We will change.
37:34Never came from the cowards and warmongers who uphold this thing with their policies.
37:39But it is built from the mass mobilization of us on the streets.
37:43And from taking power back to the people.
37:46It comes from our refusal to be silent and our dedication to resisting.
37:56Do they really think that they can starve goodness children to death and we would just disappear?
38:02Did they think they would brutalize one of our comrades and we would not take to the streets?
38:09We are in every corner of this country, in every city and on every campus.
38:19They will never comprehend that even after seven decades we are not going anywhere.
38:27We refuse to be silent.
38:34As students, our knowledge of political power, of the structures surrounding us built on genocide, slavery, rape, and oppression.
38:45We will use these to expose and corrupt the decaying laws of these institutions.
38:51These institutions that will never save us.
38:54It is only us who will free our people.
38:57And it is only the Palestinians who will free Palestine.
39:01They are willing to change the political reality for Gaza, for Palestine, and for all people
39:16thrust by Western hegemony and imperialism abroad.
39:20As students, we do not compromise on human dignity.
39:31We will not kneel to university presidents and academics who will only be remembered as the dustbins of history.
39:39These men and women will burn their hearts on people for grants, fundings, and partnerships that all come with irrelevant prestige.
39:51We will now write this on our campuses.
39:54And as the students of the Intifada, we carry the message that genocide is an assault on all life.
40:01And then our younger generation, us, we are dedicated to resistance and justice in our own world.
40:08And we will make power to the people of reality.
40:11And we will do it to a far-as-learned, far-as-learned revolution.
40:22Because we fight, because we love the people.
40:26Okay, I'm going to retook them from Brent Spanone, since we're talking about political education.
40:37He says, this is from Wretched of the Earth,
40:40To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making up political speech.
40:45What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to teach the masses that everything depends on them.
40:52That if we stagnate, it is due to their responsibility.
40:56And if we go forward, it is due to their, it is due to them too.
41:00That there is no such thing as a demiurge.
41:03That there is no famous man who will take the responsibility for everything.
41:07But that the demiurge is the people themselves, and the magic hands are finally only the hands of the people.
41:14And they are willing to ever fail to put the student movement for Palestine.
41:26We will never compromise on hours of mass.
41:29May our big tyrants die small.
41:32And may all our political prisoners be free.
41:35Peter King is before our students have criminalized.
41:49He was criminalized on his campus.
41:54And we'll let him see where we're done now.
41:56Just many people of students brutalized on this campus.
42:07I too was brutalized.
42:08By thugs.
42:09By a militia that is very familiar with this campus.
42:12A security guard from Bhagat Hruth.
42:15A profoundly Zionist organization.
42:17A Taqpik.
42:18A Palestinian student from Dessa.
42:20Choking me for 10 seconds.
42:22Thrashing me on the grounds.
42:23And sending me to the hospitals for stitches.
42:25Shame!
42:26Where was my campus in security to protect me then?
42:28Shame!
42:29Where was my university's condemnation of these acts?
42:30Shame!
42:31And as always.
42:32Trying to silence us.
42:33Trying to depoliticize these situations.
42:34Our complicit institution at York.
42:35Didn't even mention the word Palestine.
42:36In what happened.
42:37In their statements.
42:38Shame!
42:39Shame!
42:40Shame!
42:41Shame!
42:42Shame!
42:43Shame!
42:44Shame!
42:45Shame!
42:46Shame!
42:47Shame!
42:48Shame!
42:49Shame!
42:50Shame!
42:51Shame!
42:52Shame!
42:53Shame!
42:54Shame!
42:55Shame!
42:56Shame!
42:57And after this assault.
42:58More than anything.
42:59When I was fearing for my life on the ground.
43:01Half my comrades were trying to pull this person off of me.
43:04I thought about the fact that next year.
43:06My sister is attending TMU right here.
43:09Another Palestinian student.
43:10And I think about the fact that these same thugs are allowed to roam freely on a campus that she is going to be on.
43:16My sister may be subjected to the same hate, the same demonism that is Zionism to every single Palestinian.
43:29Every single day of our lives for generations we have had to be face to face with these Nazis, with these evil baby killers.
43:37And I'm tired of it.
43:38And I'm tired of it.
43:39I'm tired of the hatred.
43:40I'm tired of the ability.
43:41And I'm tired of our silence.
43:42We need to be louder.
43:43We need to be louder.
43:44I'm tired of two years of seeing dead bodies of children every single day.
43:56I'm tired of seeing everything my family has known be reduced to a rubble.
44:06I'm tired of Palestinians and our allies everywhere.
44:10Be defamed.
44:11Be attacked.
44:12Be injured.
44:13But most importantly, other than just being tired, I am filled with rage.
44:19I am filled with rage at the fact that this is what we see as the world are here.
44:25That this is what we have begun to accept.
44:28And I look to all of you, and I want to remind each and every one of you, that even though
44:32you may not be Palestinian, you are human.
44:35And at the end of the day, this issue is one of dehumanization.
44:40To what ends would you go to protect them?
44:41To what ends would you go to seek justice?
44:42Justice is the truth.
44:43And at the end of the day, the people in this building, the people in the administrative
44:47buildings at York, and the people who allow these things to happen are the ones who seek
44:52to prevent it.
44:53So I want you to feel the same rage as I do, TMU.
44:56Do you feel rage?
44:57All that you've been, is what government could follow.
45:17Even if you are one person, you have friends, you have allies, you have straight, bring that
45:25Bring that energy for the rest of your life because if you're not standing for positive liberation, if you're not trying to protect those around you, what are you doing with your life?
45:35He has been detained by G.P.S. and is currently being held in Bahamacarge Deloitte.
45:49How did this campus continue to criminalize us and brutalize us in a pathetic ethnic suppression?
45:57We will be marching over to the Himalayas building.
46:27He's building by an example of the name of G.P.S. and the K.P.S. and the K.P.S.
46:32After the first time, we learn a great idea of G.P.S. and the K.P.S. and the K.P.S.
46:34A thank you for your time.
46:37This is what you want to say.
46:39It is the K.P.S. and the K.P.S.
46:42Awe.
46:43Awe.
46:44Awe.
46:45Awe.
46:46Awe.
46:47Awe.
46:48Awe.
46:50Awe.
46:51Awe.
46:52Awe.
46:53Awe.
46:54Now, about what just happened.
46:59We had, last week, a street of blue lines on his campus.
47:03And yet again, the one who was having this protest was detained by TPN.
47:08Shame!
47:13And the people in that building.
47:15Shame!
47:19We want to make something clear.
47:21We are obviously making a difference.
47:23They are scared.
47:24They saw all the news crew here.
47:26They saw all of you who showed up.
47:28And the school is fucking terrifying!
47:42Now we are at Ellie.
47:44Okay, time to show up.
47:46I'm putting your labels here.
47:47We're back with Warren and Todd.
47:51So, one of the first things we do at a protest is actually make sure we know what content on the site.
47:57So, we ask for their name and their badge message.
48:00Which they are legally mandated to get us under their own code of conduct.
48:06Well, these particular two boxes, I think they don't want to.
48:10And they said, they said that if he asked them one more time what their names and badge numbers were, they were going to arrest him.
48:25As you can see, he asked them one more time and pointed out to them that the code of conduct says, and I quote,
48:40While acting in the course of their duties, a police officer shall, upon request, provide their name, badge number, and the name of their police service to any member of the public in a manner reasonable in the circumstances.
48:57And that's what they arrested him for.
48:59And that's what they arrested him for.
49:00SHAY!
49:07So, we've got, we are legal support, so we've got legal support.
49:11Lawyer, lawyer.
49:12Welcome to 51 Division, which I believe is where he's being held.
49:22So that's 52.
49:2551!
49:26Oh, I don't know that we want everybody to go there.
49:30Every time we go to 51 Division, it turns into another protest, pepper spray, and scarves,
49:37and yeah, we never had to.
49:39So, yeah, a small group of people will go over there to do legal protests.
49:49Well, we keep us safe, we keep us safe.
49:51We are taking that seriously.
49:53Every time we have a rally, a protest, anything on campus,
49:56we make sure we have lawyers, we make sure we have legal observers,
49:59we make sure we have marshals, and I want to do an exercise with you.
50:02I'm going to say something, and you're going to repeat exactly what I said
50:05so everyone in the back from here, okay?
50:07Today at this rally, someone who attended, who is a part of our legal team,
50:17asked the police, for their name and badge, for which police are obliged to do,
50:29is our legal right to have this information, and TPS told them that if they kept asking,
50:41they would arrest them for harassment.
50:47Summarize, this person was arrested for exercising their rights under so-called Canadian law.
51:02Shame!
51:03Shame!
51:04Shame!
51:05I'm going to say something, and I want you to say, SJP.
51:09It's murdered, and we have MPs and administration who are complicit,
51:15and yet they arrest somebody for simply exercising their rights.
51:19Shame!
51:20And I can tell you right now that they do this because they are terrified of us.
51:25They know that if enough pressure is applied, they will have to divest from genocide.
51:32So are we going to ever stop protesting?
51:35No!
51:36Are we going to let Lushemi invest in genocide?
51:39No!
51:40And I want to make something else very clear.
51:44All of us have seen the videos of children on our phones saying,
51:49please donate, please speak up for us.
51:51So I'm telling you, two hours a week showing up to a protest using your voice
51:56is absolutely nothing compared to the sacrifice our families, our loved ones in Palestine are experiencing.
52:12And I also want to make something else very clear.
52:14A lot of people have not spoken to administration or spoken to MPs, but we have.
52:19When we have told them that our loved ones are being bombed, they have laughed in our faces.
52:24Shame!
52:25Shame!
52:26Shame!
52:27And we have told them that we are so depressed we cannot go to school.
52:31They've told us, oh, we understand.
52:33No the hell you don't!
52:34Shame!
52:35Shame!
52:36When we tell them that they're investing in genocide, they tell us that their investments are ethical.
52:42I have a question.
52:43Is investing in genocide ethical?
52:45No!
52:46Restriction can't take you big, Nora.
52:50You need to keep up the pressure.
52:53Ah!
52:54Today!
52:55Today!
52:56We are gathered here,
52:58We are gathered here,
52:59AMU,
53:00SHAPDMU,
53:01Has a town hall,
53:03Has a town hall,
53:04Happening soon,
53:06Happening soon,
53:07Where we can all discuss,
53:09Where we can all discuss,
53:10How we handle,
53:11How we handle,
53:13This corrupt institution,
53:14This corrupt institution!
53:16The date is on our IG, because I can't remember right now.
53:23There is also a protest on October 4th, where we honour all the martyrs over the past two years,
53:37in addition to the over 77 years of violent occupation of Palestine.
53:51Thank you, I'm going to hand it off to my friend now.
53:53What would you do if I could ask you a question?
54:08What would you say?
54:10Stop it, stop it.
54:12You don't say anything.
54:17What's your name?
54:19Stop, stop, stop, stop.
54:21Where do you live?
54:23Shut up!
54:24Where do you live?
54:25Shut up!
54:26Where do you live?
54:27Shut up!
54:28Where do you live?
54:29Shut up!
54:30Where do you live?
54:31Shut up!
54:32Why do you say when a cop asks you a question?
54:34Shut up!
54:36Are you drunk?
54:37Shut up!
54:38You do not say anything.
54:41I have to talk to my lawyer.
54:46Let's not continue to remain resilient despite two years of genocide and 77 years of brutal
55:02occupation.
55:03Today, the PMU student body sewed up and sewed out.
55:07We stand here today as a testament to reaffirm that we will not be stopped and we will not rest until we see disclosure, divestment, and a free Palestine.
55:18The resistance doesn't enter nor get accepted.
55:25Reza needs us.
55:27Reza is calling us.
55:28We call upon you, the students, the future revolutionists, to continue to sew up and organize for Reza.
55:35Justice will not be achieved through remaining idle.
55:38We implore you to call upon your administration to disclose and digress.
55:44On October 2nd, we go to October 2nd, this report suggested to Palestine that you will be holding a comment to discuss the recent report that we have released.
55:56This report has captured so much of the community's complicity in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people over the past few years.
56:06And we strongly recommend that you come to both the town hall on October what?
56:11That's right.
56:13And that you read the report if you don't have time, there is an executive committee.
56:17Thank you guys so much for coming out.
56:20I want to remember that everything was so, so, so good.
56:27And I invite you guys to come out and call us on our Instagram if you're already S-A-P-C-M-U.
56:32One more time.
56:33S-A-P-C-M-U!
56:36I also just want to do one last closing remark.
56:38I said this earlier and I will say it again.
56:40People are desensitized to what's happening in Palestine and elsewhere.
56:43But we cannot do that.
56:45We cannot do that because everyone throughout the world needs us to use our voices because we have privilege here.
56:51Okay?
56:52From Bolestin!
56:53To Tabnan!
56:54To Suriya!
56:55To Yemen!
56:56To Congo!
56:57To Sudan!
56:58To Haiti!
57:03We can bring to Turtle Island!
57:05We want to use our voices!
57:07And I am going to say this one more time.
57:09I love to see the amazing amount of presence here today.
57:13But one student being brutalized, I know that she appreciates the support.
57:17But what she would love more than anything is for people to support this divestment campaign and oppose this genocide as much as people are outraged about her brutalization.
57:27Please disperse in pairs!
57:29Please disperse in pairs!
57:31Please disperse in pairs!
57:37Please disperse in pairs!
57:44Please disperse in pairs!
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