The University of Sydney Gaza Solidarity Encampment has announced in a statement that it is ending after occupying the Quadrangle Laws since April 23.
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Friday afternoon saw the University of Sydney Union (USU) board and executive complete their fifth meeting of the year in the Holme Building.
Following an initial meeting between the two parties on Friday last week, University management has pledged to “initiate a representative working group to investigate our research engagements and return recommendations to the University Senate by the end of this year.”
In a statement to Honi on Monday, a University spokesperson declared that “political messaging has been removed from Graffiti Tunnel for a number of years, irrespective of the content; recently that has involved both pro-Israel and Pro-Palestine graffiti.”
The order to disassemble the Encampment follows an alleged “disruptive fire evacuation” on May 21 that “revealed a serious safety concern affecting the good order on campus,” according to a note delivered by ANU’s Facilities and Services Division.
Since its inception four weeks ago, the encampment has demanded that University management “meet with us and answer our demands”, but not “behind closed doors” or through “secret negotiations.” Last Friday, protestors’ attempts to stage a ‘town hall meeting’ was ignored by University management and transformed into a public forum by guest speakers. At the time of writing, a petition launched by the encampment to hold a Student General Meeting with management is also 150 signatures away from meeting the 2,000 signature threshold.
USyd encampment organisers have set out two counteroffers to University administration:
“An open meeting at our encampment, where all those attending the camp will have the right to witness the meeting or, a town hall meeting open to all staff and students, which takes place at a lecture theatre on campus.”