Like other schools, the students here took over part of campus to set up a ‘zone’ exclusively for their protest.
WRIC News reports:
VCU students set up ‘Liberation Zone’ on campus, make demands during pro-Palestinian protestStudents have set up what they call a “Liberation Zone” at Virginia Commonwealth University as part of a pro-Palestinian demonstration, joining others on college campuses across the country protesting and demanding changes over Israel’s war effort in Gaza.The protest started Monday morning outside the James Branch Cabell Library on VCU’s Monroe Park campus, with dozens of student protesters gathering on a grassy patch in front of the library with signs, Palestinian flags and breaking out chants of “Free Palestine.”Tents have been put up and the protesters have formed a barrier around the zone, social media posts show.VCU’s student-led protest comes as protests on college campuses have spread across the country, with students taking part in sit-ins, putting up tent encampments and other demonstrations.Similar to others, the VCU student protesters are demanding that the school declare support for a permanent and immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war and condemn the U.S.’s “complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
The police moved in last night.
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Featured image via Twitter video.
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