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00:00 Tents are still standing strong at the main lawn of Columbia University, the epicenter
00:05 of the student protest movement.
00:07 Negotiations with the school have been underway since Friday, but its student group says talks
00:12 have hit an impasse.
00:13 "At the heart of this action, at the heart of this encampment is the wish for a complete
00:18 divestment and boycott of institutions that are complicit in Israel's genocide.
00:24 Despite this, the university has proposed only further engagement with the apartheid
00:30 state."
00:31 Last Thursday, Columbia summoned NYPD to dismantle the mobilizations, a decision that sparked
00:36 a wildfire of protests at colleges across the country.
00:40 Hundreds have been arrested at numerous universities since, what started with just a few dozen
00:45 protesters transforming into a nationwide movement, from NYU, Emory University and Yale,
00:51 spreading all the way to the West Coast.
00:54 "We're here once again fighting for our demands for divestment for the Palestinian people
01:02 and for the safety of the Palestinian students at Stanford and around Stanford."
01:07 The protesters are demanding their schools to cut financial ties to Israel and divest
01:11 from companies they say are enabling the conflict.
01:14 And the movement shows no signs of slowing down any time soon.
01:18 say they won't stop until their voices are heard.
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