author: Undercurrents staff

Palestine

March 9, 2024

50+ Students demand divestment at to Pomona Board of Trustees meeting

“We don’t care how long it takes or how hard you claim it might be…your job is to figure out how to move the money.”

Palestine

March 1, 2024

Students stage second die-in at Big Bridges to demand Pomona divest from genocide, disrupting HMC inauguration

The action follows an ASPC referendum in which Pomona students voted overwhelmingly in favor of disclosure and divestment.

Palestine

February 29, 2024

5C students delegate to Alexander Hall after passing BDS referendum

“You cannot scare us into complicity and silence. Pomona College students have spoken.”

Labor

February 27, 2024

120+ students rally and delegate to Harvey Mudd College administration to #dropstarbucks

“When HMC uses Starbucks as a supplier, our university is materially and symbolically supporting a corporation that violates workers rights.”

Palestine

Pomona students vote overwhelmingly in favor of divestment from Israel in historic referendum

The referendum had the highest margin of victory for a student body-wide BDS vote at any U.S. college, according to National SJP.

Affinity groups

Against protests, Pomona admin to move first-gen, Black, Latinx student affinity groups to SCC basement

Dean Jackson approached groups in November to ask if they wanted to leave their spaces, but said that the decision was already “90% made.”

Labor

February 25, 2024

#dropstarbucks: CSWA launches new campaign at teach-in

Student organizers called out Starbucks’ history of child labor, suppression of Palestinian speech and union-busting.

Palestine

270+ students walk out in the rain to support Pomona divestment, protest disciplinary action against students

"My disciplinary sanctions do not scare me...we are more powerful together. We keep each other safe."

Palestine

February 24, 2024

SJP brings Maya Wind and Robin D.G. Kelley to discuss scholasticide in Palestine

Wind talked about her research in occupied Haifa, where Pitzer College maintains a study abroad program.

Palestine

February 19, 2024

Palestine action brings together demands for Pomona divestment, Suspend Pitzer Haifa

On Feb. 9, more than 100 students participated in an action that targeted a Pitzer Board of Trustees meeting and included a delegation at Alexander Hall.

Undercurrents reports on labor, Palestine liberation, prison abolition and other community organizing at and around the Claremont Colleges.

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Issue 1 / Spring 2023

Setting the Standard

How Pomona workers won a historic $25 minimum wage; a new union in Claremont; Tony Hoang on organizing

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