Post by SSHoya on Apr 26, 2024 9:20:28 GMT -5
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Hundreds of students, advocates converge at GW University to support Gaza
Around the same time about two miles away, a group of protesters gathered on the steps of Healy Hall at Georgetown University. They chanted “Free, free Palestine” and cautioned those gathered not to speak with police or the media.
Around 11:30, the protesters wound their way through the neighborhood’s cobblestone streets, headed to meet up with fellow protesters at GW. Briefly blocking traffic on M Street, they chanted “Israel is a terror state” and “Down, down, Genocide Joe” as passing cars honked in support.
Just before 12:15 p.m., the group arrived on the GWU campus to cheers from people around the tents. The two groups chanted in unison, “There is only one solution, intifada revolution.”
At the encampment a few hours later, Fida Adely, an associate professor of anthropology at Georgetown, linked hands with other faculty and staff from area universities. They formed a human chain around the tents.
“We may not be the ones holding encampments, but we need to be here to support our students who are really willing to kind of suspend their studies, suspend their academic lives, and be out here to fight against the genocide,” Adely said, dressed in a light blue regalia gown from her alma mater, Columbia. “This is a turning point in our history.”
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/04/25/college-protests-george-washington-university/
Hundreds of students, advocates converge at GW University to support Gaza
Around the same time about two miles away, a group of protesters gathered on the steps of Healy Hall at Georgetown University. They chanted “Free, free Palestine” and cautioned those gathered not to speak with police or the media.
Around 11:30, the protesters wound their way through the neighborhood’s cobblestone streets, headed to meet up with fellow protesters at GW. Briefly blocking traffic on M Street, they chanted “Israel is a terror state” and “Down, down, Genocide Joe” as passing cars honked in support.
Just before 12:15 p.m., the group arrived on the GWU campus to cheers from people around the tents. The two groups chanted in unison, “There is only one solution, intifada revolution.”
At the encampment a few hours later, Fida Adely, an associate professor of anthropology at Georgetown, linked hands with other faculty and staff from area universities. They formed a human chain around the tents.
“We may not be the ones holding encampments, but we need to be here to support our students who are really willing to kind of suspend their studies, suspend their academic lives, and be out here to fight against the genocide,” Adely said, dressed in a light blue regalia gown from her alma mater, Columbia. “This is a turning point in our history.”
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/04/25/college-protests-george-washington-university/