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The statement restated administrators’ goal to end the encampment demonstration, but said “no such police action will occur at 4 p.m. today.”“It remains an urgent campus priority to end the encampment, which is illegal, a violation of student and registered student organization conduct rules, and an increasing safety concern,” the statement said.

Protest organizer Dahlia Saba said they brought a proposal to Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and other UW leaders that outlined “several principles of ethical investment.””Specifically, no investing in weapons manufacturing, no investing in companies that profit off of the occupied territories and no investing in companies that profit off of private prisons,” Saba said.

In a statement Wednesday afternoon, university officials said that students and faculty liaisons walked out of a meeting on Wednesday. Student protesters are calling on the university to divest from groups that they said are supplying arms used by the Israeli government against Palestinians.

“We decided that it seemed like the university is not negotiating in good faith with us and as such, further negotiating meetings where the university refuses to talk about specific points are not worth our time,” Justice for Students in Palestine member Dahlia Saba said. The university says it remains an urgent campus priority to end the encampment.

The group presented 12 requests to the school, including to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism and enforce the law on encampments.

Roughly 250 faculty and pro-Palestine protesters marched up Bascom Hill to express frustration at University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and campus administration during a UW-Madison Faculty Senate meeting Monday.

The student organizations must cease activities pending an investigation and decision from the Committee on Student Organizations.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalism professor Deborah Blum has lived at that intersection for much of her career. She earned a master’s degree at University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1982, and later taught journalism at UW-Madison as well. On Friday, Blum will be the keynote speaker for the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication Graduation Celebration.

Student protests on campuses around the nation have led to violently police crack-downs, so when pro palestine encampments sprung up- to milwaukee and madison campuses, organizers and officials weren’t sure what to expect. Students and community members on both sides of the issue and has this report.

As a pro-Palestine encampment continues into the sixth day on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, college Republicans took a stand on Friday with their own counter-protest, urging university officials and law enforcement to intervene.

Talks between pro-Palestinian protesters camped on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Library Mall and administrators are continuing, but neither side has moved much as of Friday afternoon, the fifth day of the protest.

“I’m glad the university is actually talking about these things openly and willing to listen to what the students have to say, but I think what we have seen from this university before and from other universities across the country is that they are willing to speak to students just to pacify them and we want to see the actions behind the words,” said Dahila Saba, a UW-Madison Graduate student and member of the student group, Students for Justice in Palestine.

They plan to rally on Library Mall at 2:15 p.m. Monday. Faculty members said it’s an opportunity to explore the encampment and have important conversations with students and other organizers.

Chairman of Young Americans for Freedom Harrison Wells says they are hoping to send a message to student protestors at Library Mall. “We just want to show the school and all of the protestors that are here doing it illegally, that there is a way to voice your opinion, there is a way to exercise your First Amendment, but within the laws.”

“All 30 of our students made it to the end, despite incredible challenges, and I’ve seen a transformation in each one,” said Emily Auerbach, executive director of the Odyssey Project. “They’re cheering each other on. They have this newfound community within Odyssey.”

Speakers share experiences of growing up under occupation, facing discrimination.

Negotiations continue between UW administrators, protest organizers.

The pro-Palestine protest and encampment organized by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Young Democratic Socialists of America continued through Friday night.

Dozens of tents were on the green of Library Mall as UW-Madison’s solidarity encampment entered its fourth day. Around 7:30 this morning students were groggily waking to breakfast and cheering when more coffee arrived.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison campus was much quieter Thursday, May 2. just a day after pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with police, leading to a series of arrests and injured officers.

Despite a violent clash with police in Madison on Wednesday, pro-Palestinian encampments continued Friday at both the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at UW-Milwaukee.

Encampment demonstration on Library Mall enters fifth day.

Photojournalists for the Cap Times were on the scene as police officers descended on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Library Mall early Wednesday to remove a protest encampment, which campus leaders said violated state administrative code.

As University of Wisconsin-Madison leaders continued discussions with student organizers of a pro-Palestinian protest Thursday, campus police released more details about the people who were arrested the day before. Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin met with student and faculty negotiators as both sides remained in a stalemate over an encampment on Library Mall.

More than 20 tents remained up on Library Mall through the night despite UWPD’s removal of all but two tents Wednesday morning.

UW-Madison graduate student and Students for Justice in Palestine spokesperson Dahlia Saba discusses why protestors continued to assemble on campus after police officers moved to end an encampment.

Tensions grew between police and pro-Palestine protesters Wednesday morning as officers tore down tents and arrested some protesters on UW-Madison’s campus.

Student Salomon Delarosa said he and other Jewish students on campus felt the need to show their support to one another by gathering at the steps of the Wisconsin State Historical Building, directly across from Memorial Library. Pro-Palestine protestors have been holding a peaceful protest outside of Memorial Library since Monday morning.

Early on Wednesday morning, on the third day of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s pro-Palestininan encampment in front of Library Mall, police from multiple agencies arrived to remove students camping in protest of Israel’s genocide on Gaza and demanding UW-Madison’s disclosure and divestments from Israel.

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Demonstrators stay in encampment for third night in a row.

More than 20 tents remained up on Library Mall through the night despite UWPD’s removal of all but two tents Wednesday morning.