Undercurrents on Instagram: "On Oct. 7, over 480 students walked out of their classes at 10:07 AM to participate in a rally marking the one-year anniversary of the Zionist entity’s intensified genocide on Palestine. Students walked from multiple locations across campuses before converging at the intersection of College Ave and 6th Street at Pomona College. The demonstration ended with a takeover of Carnegie Hall, which a banner dropped out of a window dubbed "Refaat Alareer University," after the Palestinian poet killed by occupation forces in Dec. 2023, until 4 p.m. The Oct. 7 walkout was a part of PDfA’s year-long campaign to pressure Pomona College to divest from the Zionist entity and weapons manufacturers. “We are here today to mourn the 118,000 plus Palestinians who have been Martyred by the zionist entity, and to recommit to the fight for Palestinian resistance,” a speaker said while students rallied at the intersection. “We are part of institutions who are not only watching the same genocide unfold as us – they are funding it, and none of these appeals to human life have moved them.” On Sept. 23, 2024, the Zionist entity began a bombing campaign in Beirut and southern Lebanon, killing over 2,000. “Over the past year of the Zionist Entity’s intensified genocide of the Palestinian people, these colleges and other universities across the United States have revealed to us who they really are, and who they are willing to protect,” emphasizing the arrest of 19 Pomona student protestors in April last semester as well as the recent shut down and firing of student workers at the Motley for hanging a Palestinian flag on its wall. Attendees began moving into Carnegie Hall at 11:13 a.m."