• Picketing and pitching tents: Pro-Palestine activists get disruptive

  • May 6 2024
  • Length: 40 mins
  • Podcast

Picketing and pitching tents: Pro-Palestine activists get disruptive

  • Summary

  • Pro-Palestinian protests around the world are escalating, and Western Australia is no exception.


    From Columbia to Curtin University, students are pitching tents to demand their administrations cut ties with Israel.


    Meanwhile, hundreds continue to join picket lines at Fremantle Port in an attempt to disrupt Israeli shipping line ZIM.


    Are these tactics working? And when it comes to global issues like Palestine, can what happens in a place like Perth really make a difference?


    In this episode, you'll hear from Western Australian organisers and protesters on why they're willing to get disruptive for Palestine.


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    For more on recent pro-Palestine protests, see our news coverage:

    • Pro-Palestinian activists arrested at Fremantle Port picket
    • Curtin students set up encampment to demand uni divest from Israel

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