CUNY Schools Join Nationwide Student Hunger Strike for Gaza as U. of Oregon, Stanford Continue Fast

Here in New York, students from CUNY Graduate Center, Brooklyn College and Baruch College are launching an indefinite hunger strike today to protest “the Israeli-US war machine [that] continues to starve Palestinians in Gaza to death and rain bombs down upon them.” On the West Coast, Stanford University hunger strikers are entering their third week, and University of Oregon students, faculty and staff have entered the second week of their fast for Gaza. U of Oregon hunger strikers spoke from the steps of the federal courthouse in Eugene.

University of Oregon hunger striker: “The students, faculty and staff participating in this hunger strike have one primary goal. And that goal is that all who bear witness to the hunger strike that we’re participating in also bear witness to the humanity of Palestinians, who are being starved to death en masse in Gaza, and to take every action possible to stop this crime against our shared humanity.”

Students at Yale ended their hunger strike Friday after 10 days amid deteriorating health conditions among the activists.
On Monday, President Trump threatened to cancel $3 billion in federal grants to Harvard unless the university hands over personal information about international students — who make up more than a quarter of the student body. We’ll have more on President Trump’s escalating war on Harvard later in the broadcast.