Despite the poor weather, the encampment continues to grow. Honi counted over 70 tents this morning, although several tents had been wrecked by bad weather.
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Encampment rally takes place amidst the rain, speak-out takes place outside F23, and Honi speaks to Nasser Mashni.
With the Gaza solidarity encampment approaching its first week on the Quad lawns, student activists continue to demand for the severance of the University’s ties to Israeli universities and weapon manufacturers.
Our front cover by Mahima Singh is an expression of solidarity between disability justice and Palestinian liberation. Our collective liberation will not come without standing together in solidarity with Palestine.
On Tuesday, April 23, University of Sydney student and staff activists commenced their first day of a campout in support of encampments at Columbia University and other US campuses.
Within the matrix of colonial control, Israel has tried to render Palestine into a carceral territory, devoid of statehood or sovereignty, while subjecting the Indigenous population to a regime of policing, incarceration, bordering, and surveillance.
With the brutality noted by the speakers and the continued bombardment of the Palestinians in full view of the world, the words of Walid Daqqa quoted by the first speaker are apt: “I do not need to prove my cause – it is self-evident.”
Students Against War (S.A.W.) and Stop War on Palestine organised a snap rally on Thursday 4 April at the Sydney office of Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in response to the death of an Australian aid worker in Gaza, Lalzawmi ‘Zomi’ Frankcom. Zomi was amongst seven World Central Kitchen workers killed in their convoy by an Israeli military air strike, announced on April 2.
Open letters written by staff and students have called on the University of Sydney to cut institutional ties with Israeli universities and companies that directly arm Israel or collaborate with its military.
Hosted by the Autonomous Collective Against Racism (ACAR) and BDS Youth, a screening of Ana Nogueira and Eron Davidson’s Roadmap…
