Category: Campus life

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.

Pro-Palestine protesters called for divestment from a $249 million fund that includes weapons manufacturers and other war related companies.

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Throughout the years, there have been thousands of demonstrations at UW Madison. Whether it was five people or hundreds at a time, protesters found a way for their voices to be heard. “We want to foster the ability for students to learn something, to be passionate about it and to make their voice heard,” Kacie Lucchini Butcher, director the Center of Campus History.

On April 29, starting in the morning, alumni, students and supporters came out to UW-Madison to set up an encampment, a budding national trend across universities around the country, in a continued effort to call for a ceasefire in the ongoing war in Gaza. In addition, protestors are demanding UW-Madison disclose and divest from any investments in Israeli companies.

Students, community members continue to demand university’s divestment from Israel.

Pro-Palestine demonstrators who organized an encampment Monday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison remained on Library Mall despite warnings from university officials that the event violated state law.

State and local police broke a two-day standoff with anti-Gaza war protesters Wednesday morning as they began removing an encampment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and arresting people in the crowd.

As pro-Palestinian encampment protests entered their second day at the Universities of Wisconsin-Madison and Milwaukee Tuesday, some Jewish students and organizations expressed concern about what the protesters’ message meant for them.

Early this morning, hundreds of demonstrators gathered on Library Mall to protest in solidarity with Gaza.

Students at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee joined the wave of protests occurring at campuses across the United States to support Palestinian liberation, speak out against Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which has killed over 30,000 people and to urge their universities to cut ties with Israel.

College students across Wisconsin are protesting Israel’s war in Gaza and standing in solidarity with Palestinians.

Campus protests against the war in Gaza have reached Wisconsin universities. Hundreds of students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison gathered on the Library Mall on Monday to demand that the university divest from Israel.

Students at the Universities of Wisconsin in Madison and Milwaukee joined the nationwide campus movement demanding their schools to support Palestinian liberation and divest from pro-Israel companies and causes. Both universities held rallies and established encampments Monday.

Students, staff, and members of the public organized a pro-Palestinian rally and encampment at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and Madison campuses.

Hundreds gathered at Library Mall early Monday in support of the Palestinians in Gaza as Israel’s war against Hamas continues.

More than 200 people attended a protest Monday at University of Wisconsin-Madison in support of the Palestinian people. Demonstrators set up at least a dozen tents on the grass outside Memorial Library.

A group called “Students for Justice in Palestine – UW Madison” organized the event.It defined its protest against “ongoing genocide and Zionist war crimes in Gaza, and against the new wave of student repression across the country.”

According to a UW spokesperson, Reesor is meeting with protest organizers Monday night. The University asked students to comply with campus policy and state law by taking down their tents, but several tents remained in place.

University of Wisconsin-Madison students protesting for Pro-Palestine encamped overnight on Library Mall.Hundreds of students in support of Palestine started protesting at 9 a.m. on Monday.

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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.

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) organized a protest on Monday to call for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s “financial and social” divestment from Israel, mirroring similar pro-Palestine demonstrations on college campuses across the country.

Mnookin emphasized investments in SuccessWorks — the College of Letters and Sciences’ center for career and professional development — and the presence of job-focused opportunities within all of UW’s schools.

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