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College Students Plan to Skip Class for Palestine
College Students Plan to Skip Class for Palestine
“Most encampments did not win,” YDSA organizer Erin Lawson has stated. A strike, on the other hand, “shakes the very foundation of the university to its core.” (Photo by Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images)
After the encampment strategy ‘did not win,’ young socialists are plotting a national strike to protest the ‘Israeli-American genocide.’
By Frannie Block
08.12.24 — Education
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College Students Plan to Skip Class for Palestine

This fall, university classrooms could be surprisingly quiet. And not because students on campus aren’t protesting—in fact, quite the opposite. 

To protest what they see as the “the Israeli-American genocide of Palestine,” the Young Democratic Socialists of America is planning a national student strike, encouraging college students to “disrupt campus lif…

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Frannie Block
Frannie Block is a reporter for The Free Press. She started her career as a breaking-news journalist for the Des Moines Register, where she covered topics ranging from crime and public safety to food insecurity and the Iowa caucus.
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