A gaggle of demonstrators collect on College Avenue on Thursday, Could 1.
An illustration in assist of Palestinians, and the college college students within the U.S. and Canada staging encampments, came about over the roadway in entrance of the College of Waterloo on the top of the Wednesday morning rush hour.
A rally referred to as “Stand with Gaza & Solidarity with College students within the U.S. for Palestine” was arrange on the road at 170 College Avenue on the ION practice tracks. About six protestors appeared with indicators studying “Ceasefire now,” “Solidarity with college students for Palestine” and “All universities BOMBED by Israel in Gaza.”
The organizer, Tamara Lorincz, a Ph.D. scholar at Wilfrid Laurier College, mentioned the protest was a roadside motion and needed to publicly acknowledge that there are college students who’re in solidarity with different protesting college students on campuses in the US and components of Canada.
“We assist what the American college students are doing, occupying their universities, calling for an finish to the genocide and in addition calling on their universities to divest from struggle and weapons,” mentioned Lorincz.
CityNews 570 reached out to the College of Waterloo on a number of events, however to date the college has despatched no assertion straight commenting on this rally, or concerning the rising development on American and Canadian campuses the place college students arrange encampments in protest of Israel’s struggle in Gaza.
Canadian universities with such encampments embrace McGill and Concordia in Montreal, and the College of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Lorincz mentioned she doesn’t know of any plans for encampments to be established on the campuses of both UW or Laurier and that their group is anxious concerning the “violence inflicted by police” in opposition to college students on American college campuses.
Flag of protest from the College of Waterloo. (Josh Goeree/ CityNews Kitchener)
“We would like our universities right here in Waterloo to talk out, to sentence the genocide and to cease investing in weapons manufacturing, supporting struggle and to be on the aspect of peace,” mentioned Lorincz.
Montreal police mentioned they’ve obtained McGill College’s request to dismantle the Professional-Palestinian encampment on its campus and are evaluating “totally different avenues” to reply.
The Universities of Toronto and Ottawa has cautioned college students in opposition to beginning an encampment.
