Students protested in support of Palestine Wednesday morning at Long Beach City College’s Liberal Arts Campus.
The participating students were protesting against LBCC’s investment in the company, BlackRock.
BlackRock is an international investment managing company that invests into companies that are involved with the manufacturing of weapons that are provided for Israel, contributing to the genocide in Palestine.
Students are calling for LBCC to divest from their investments in BlackRock.
“This personally affects me because I pay money to attend classes here and I work here, so I get paid money by this college where the money comes from human suffering,” said Skye, student at LBCC and refused to give full name.
The students involved with the protest were reluctant in revealing their full names as well as showing their faces in fear of their own safety.
They stated that the group holds protests on campus every few days out of the week.
A student “N” who refused to give their full name carried a Palestine flag and waved it in the sky and spoke into a megaphone outside of LAC T- building North.
The student protestors circled the courtyard for about an hour before they made their way to the other side of campus outside of the A and E building.
Pro-Palestinian protests have been seen around colleges across the US.
A few of the universities include University of Southern California, University of California, Los Angeles, Columbia University, New York University and many more.