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Live updates: Encampment demonstration passes 12-hour mark as UW administration urges protesters to remove tents

An encampment was built on the University of Wisconsin campus around 9:40 a.m. Monday. The building of the encampment followed a protest on Library Mall during which hundreds of students and community members led chants denouncing the ongoing war in Gaza and calling for UW’s divestment from the state of Israel.