The group named its encampment after Refaat Alareer, a professor who Israel killed in December.
Student activists set up a protest encampment in support of Palestine inside the New School on April 21, 2024, in New York City.Workers for The New School in New York City have erected the first-ever faculty solidarity encampment amid the wave of pro-Palestine protest encampments that have been led and sustained by students at over 100 colleges and universities across the U.S.
The encampment is the only one standing in New York City after numerous schools in the city unleashed the full force of the New York City Police Department on protesting students, violently clearing encampments atNOW: Faculty members at The New School set up the ‘Refaat Alareer Faculty Solidarity Encampment’ inside the lobby where the student encampment was swept by NYPD last weekOverall, roughly 2,600 students across the U.S.
The group has called for their movement to spread across universities, the same way that Columbia students’ encampment sparked similar protests nationwide. “We call on faculty across all campuses to escalate and take greater coordinated risk in solidarity with the student movement, their demands, and the people of Palestine and their righteous struggle against 6 months of a genocide and 75+ years of settler colonial violence and apartheid,” the faculty said.is unlike most news publications; we’re nonprofit, independent, and free of corporate funding.
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