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DESCRIPTION:The cities of the Tri-Valley (Dublin, Pleasanton and Livermore) have long 
 been the source of violence that extends to our community in the Bay Area 
 and around the world. These cities hold the Santa Rita Jail, Federal 
 Correctional Institute (FCI), BART/PleasantonPD station, Lawrence Livermore 
 National Labs (LLNL), and Boeing offices, among other carceral and violent 
 institutions. Santa Rita is one of the deadliest jails in the country, and 
 its policing regime has tragically taken 70 lives in the last 10 years. FCI 
 was recently investigated for rampant sexual and physical abuse, resulting 
 in a harmful and haphazard closure. LLNL has designed nuclear weapons as 
 well as conventional weapons such as Dense Inert Metal Explosives (DIME), 
 which are used in the US imperialist violence in Palestine and around the 
 world. Many of our institutions, including colleges, hold investments that 
 work to prop up the same policing and imperialist violence; most notably, 
 the Chabot/Las Positas school district, overseen by the Retirement Board 
 of Authority, invests in weapons manufacturers and other actors 
 responsible for israeli apartheid to finance employee retirement 
 funds. Las Positas College (LPC) fortifies the violent institutions of our 
 cities. LPC job fairs and internship programs ensure policing and weapons 
 programs will continue to be staffed. LPC lecture series help weapons 
 designers obscure their atrocities. LPC's campus events promote 
 collaboration between police departments. By doing this Las Positas 
 becomes a perpetrator and collaborator of the abuses of Santa Rita Jail, 
 the deaths at the hands of LLNL-designed weapons, the assaults of FCI, and 
 the deaths of those at the hands of weapons manufacturers.\n\nLast week, 
 students, alumni, and community members attempted to intervene in the 
 functioning of Las Positas College. For their commitment to ending the war 
 machine at LPC and in our cities, Las Positas has attempted to discipline 
 all actors. Those most vulnerable to that discipline are students because 
 of the work of Dean Joel and his weaponization of the Student Code of 
 Conduct. While he may pretend it is for the safety and security of the 
 school, constant repression has showed us is that there is no acceptable 
 action in solidarity with Palestine except that which allows their 
 investments in genocide and their school to be unbothered.\n\nWe must 
 continue to escalate and we must resist repression. We ask those in our 
 community to organize actions at the plentiful targets in our cities and 
 support students who are facing repression. \n\nJoin us 5/21/2024 at noon 
 to mobilize at Las Positas College\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/05/20/18866455.php
SUMMARY:Las Positas College: Rally for Gaza
LOCATION:Las Positas College- 3000 Campus Hill Drive \n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/05/20/18866455.php
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