There are more than two thousand people detained due to the protests over Palestine, registered in recent weeks on the campuses of numerous universities in the United States.
What began in Columbia became a national event, whose fundamental reason was the rejection of the Zionist genocide. However, student actions express a string of problems and dissatisfactions suffered by young Americans.
The students’ statements, especially on social networks, show some of the motivations that led to these massive protests.
Almost all groups of protesters reject, first of all, Israeli barbarity in Gaza, and demand an immediate ceasefire. But the agenda also includes divestment from companies that have interests in Israel, or in the US military.
The fight for social justice, against the mistreatment of minorities, racial discrimination, war, the impact of global warming, as well as the limits imposed by the Government on freedom of expression, are present on digital networks, graffiti , the songs and the slogans.
On the other hand, the complex situation in which the majority of young Americans live is an important element to take into account.
The new generation has had to grow up in a deeply divided country, in which the most retrograde and conservative forces advance and occupy more spaces in society and politics every day, and threaten the rise to power of the most far-right group. of the American elite.
They live in a nation in which there are more guns than people, in which violence and drug addiction cause hundreds of deaths every day; Immigrants are persecuted and chaos and insecurity are promoted, to guarantee control of citizens.
The situation of many students cannot be ignored. Research shows that at 66 colleges in 20 states and the District of Columbia, 36 percent of them did not eat enough or have access to safe housing, according to a report published by Temple University and the Center Wisconsin Hope Lab.
In the United States, about 70% of students take out loans to pay for college, so debts of more than six figures are usually not an exception, but very common.
The wave of student protests has spread beyond the borders of the United States, young people from Canada, Australia, France, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Spain, to name just a few countries, set up camps and barricades, raising flags all over the world. that their grandparents once held; those that make the powerful tremble and that seemed to sleep forever in museums.
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