Guest lecturer at UCLA leads students in 'Free Palestine' chant at mandatory lecture

• Published date: 05 April 2024
• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

The lecturer, Lisa "Tiny" Gray-Garcia, also asked students to join in what she described as a "non-secular prayer" to "the ancestors," instructing everyone to get on their knees and touch the floor—"mama earth," as she described it—with their fists. The lecture was mandatory for all medical students

Gray-Garcia, a local activist who had been invited to speak about "Housing (In)Justice," continued to thank native tribes for preserving "what the settlers call LA," according to audio published on YouTube, and to remind students of the city's "herstory."

She then called on the students to shout "Land Back." In the YouTube video, a chorus repeating these words can be heard.

Gray- Garcia also included a blessing for "black," "brown," and "houseless people" who die because of the "crapatalist lie" of "private property."

"Mama Earth was never meant to be bought or sold or pimped or played," Gray-Garcia told the students.

Gray-Garcia later referred to modern medicine as "white science" in her lecture.

Lisa "Tiny" Gray-Garcia's background

Gray-Garcia, dubbed "PovertySkola," is a formerly unhoused, incarcerated...