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Los Angeles, May 15 (RHC)-- Protests over Israel’s genocidal and brutal war on Gaza are continuing across the United States. 

In Mountain View, California, hundreds of protesters blocked the entrances to a Google conference for software developers.  

Ariel Koren is a former Google worker and spoke with reporters.  “We are sending a message that Google is the company that is providing the cloud infrastructure for Israel’s violent crimes against humanity, and so we will hold the company accountable for this behavior. … There is no reason, there is no need for Google to profit off of genocide.  And so, our demands, they’re not radical, they’re not difficult.  It’s really simple: Drop Project Nimbus, and drop business with the government and the military of Israel that is guilty of genocide.”

In New York City, students at CUNY, the City University of New York, briefly took over a library at the Graduate Center Tuesday night and renamed it “Al Aqsa University Library” to honor Gaza’s oldest public university, which was destroyed by Israel.

At Harvard University, students have ended their three-week Gaza encampment after school officials agreed to meet to discuss divesting from Israel. Israa Alzamli is a student organizer at Harvard.

One organizer, Israa Alzamli, said: “We’ve been organizing for Palestine on Harvard’s campus for years. This encampment was not the beginning or the end of our organizing. But it was a beautiful moment of showing how much student power we can build.  You know, President Garber has made it very clear from the beginning they had no interest in negotiating with us.  But we showed that we had the student power to actually bring him to discussions.”