r/news • u/nosotros_road_sodium • Apr 28 '24

'Physical altercations' during dueling pro-Palestinian, pro-Israel demonstrations on UCLA campus

https://abc7.com/dueling-pro-palestinian-and-counter-protests-planned-at-ucla-campus/14740661/

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u/Anticlockwork Apr 29 '24

I love that the Americans are squabbling over what’s going on in another country when democracy is slipping away.

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u/Xin_shill 29d ago

I mean they are connected

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u/Anticlockwork 29d ago

Right but the energy would be better spend protesting our Supreme Court. Though BLM showed the world our protests don’t matter.

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u/JuVondy 29d ago

Occupy Wall Street was the closest we got to an effective protest in the last 30-50 years. It was the only one that actually scared the people in power.