The Encampments: Uprising Against the Death Machine

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Breht O'Shea

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Directors Michael T. Workman and Kei Pritsker join Breht to discuss The Encampments, their award-winning new documentary chronicling the 2024 student-led pro-Palestinian uprisings at Columbia, UCLA, and beyond. We talk about the ethical challenges of filming, the fascist state repression faced by people who speak out against Israel, the story of Mahmoud Khalil’s ICE detention and its relationship to the film, this film as revolutionary cultural production and political education, the universities dereliction of duty in keeping their students safe from violent zionist thugs, and the film’s role as a tool for organizers. With campuses - and society - under a reactionary crackdown and solidarity rising, this episode explores how cinema, student resistance, and revolutionary struggle converge in the fight for Palestinian liberation.

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0:00.0	Why do you think these encampments cause such an intense response from some of the most powerful people in the world? Thank you all for being here today.
0:31.6	We have several members of Congress here.
0:34.6	Throughout history, Columbia students have contributed to the great
0:38.9	storybook of America's life and thought. The cherished traditions of this university are being
0:44.2	overtaken right now by radical and extreme ideologies. Anti-Israelic campuses are popping
0:50.0	up in universities all across this country.
1:02.0	We're here to discuss the little gaza's that have risen up on campuses across America. These little gaza are disgusting cesspools of anti-Semitic hate, full of pro-Hamas, sympathizers, fanatics, and freaks.
1:20.1	There was a very concerned effort on behalf of members of the media to portray things a certain way and refuse to discuss Gaza.
1:23.4	They see something on TikTok and they're like Israel bad and Hamasca.
1:28.3	Can you believe they are chanting about the infantata in New York City?
1:32.3	I really believe they are brainwash.
1:33.3	I mean, this is literally like a demonstration in Tehran.
1:36.3	This is terrorism. The war on terror has gotten to U.S. campuses. The universities are materially invested in the genocide of Gaza.
1:53.0	Through their connections to companies that manufacture the weapons or that operate illegally throughout occupied Palestine.
2:05.5	We don't want our money to go towards Palestinian death.
2:17.2	I'm Kay Pritzker. I'm one of the co-directors of the encampments, and I'm a journalist with Breakthrough News. I'm Michael Workman. I'm one of the co-directors of the encampments and I'm a journalist with Breakthrough News.
2:18.3	I'm Michael Workman. I'm one of the co-directors of the encampments and also one of the editors and
2:24.1	producers. Yes, well, it's an honor and a pleasure to have both you on the show today.
2:29.1	I just recently watched the film in anticipation for this interview, beautiful, gorgeous, profoundly
2:35.7	moving. I love the way that it's constantly interacting with history, with what's going on
2:41.2	in Gaza and with the encampments. It's a really sort of dialectical film in that way. Everything
2:45.6	is in relation and in conversation with one another. It was a deeply just moving experience
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