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“When I worked in an office, I'd take a 30 minute stroll during my lunch hour most days, typically along a busy road with lots of car pollution,” O’Meara said.

It was lunch hour in La Soledad, the air punctuated with the rhythm of cumbia and salsa blaring from boom boxes.

Dozens of protesters, including clergy members and laypeople from different Christian denominations, peacefully occupied the cafeteria at peak lunch hour, chanting and singing to demand a permanent cease-fire in Gaza and an end to U.S. arms transfers to Israel.

Punchy, diverting, varied, it’s a perfect pick-me-up for your lunch hour.

The threats followed “some fights during or near lunch hour” last week at the school, according to a letter posted on Instagram Saturday by Riverside Unified School District Supt.