Pro-Palestinian demonstrators disrupted Pomona College’s convocation ceremony on Tuesday by blocking the entrance and preventing people from attending the event.
Some students and employees could not get inside as a result, prompting administrators to resort to livestreaming the event, the Claremont Courier reported.
Students from Claremont College, who are part of a group called Pomona Divest From Apartheid, organized the protest, the Courier reported.
“WE SHUT DOWN CONVOCATION. Administration + trustees were forced to livestream their speeches in an empty theatre,” the group stated in an Instagram post Tuesday.
“We send a clear message to the Pomona Board of Trustees and Administration: We will not accept business as usual when Pomona refuses to disclose and divest investments complicit in the occupation and genocide of Palestinians,” it stated. […]
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