As of right now, students do not have access to where their money is going when they pay tuition fees to this university.

So crucially, our first demand is full disclosure of financial investments.

Crucially about Israel, right?

Well, we want to know where all of the money is going.

We think that that's key for students to know where their money is going, whether it's about

Israel or not.

But then, with this knowledge, we would like to pursue full divestment from two things.

First, from all arms manufacturing companies.

Whether it's the current genocide in Gaza or other armed conflict around the world,

our university should not be investing in that.

This is a situation where we should be

learning and contributing to education and a safe community, not to international conflict.

And secondly, we request and demand that the university divest from all holdings and any entities that sponsor

or are complicit in Israeli occupation, apartheid, and the current genocide in Gaza. Hello and welcome back to a bit fruity. I have bronchitis right now as you may be able to hear and I was initially going to take the week off to just try to deal with it and I ultimately and I ultimately decided not to do that because of how passionately I feel about what we're going to talk about today.

So I have my cough drops, I have my coffee, I have my inhaler, and I hope that you'll bear with me through

the rasp and the nasal while we just try our best to muscle through it today.

So the other night here in New York City, quite close to my

apartment where we're recording this right now, hundreds of New York police

clad in riot gear, guns drawn, descended upon Columbia University's Hamilton Hall, where about

100 students were occupying and protesting for Columbia to divest from Israel.

The New York police arrested those 100 or so students. As this was happening, I was tuned

in to WKCR, which is the Columbia Student Run radio station. It's run by 10 or 15 Columbia University students and

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