Besides a few attempts by Zionist supporters to verbally intimidate, there was no escalation. The encampment chanted non-stop until Zionist protestors voluntarily left university grounds soon after.
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Encampment rally takes place amidst the rain, speak-out takes place outside F23, and Honi speaks to Nasser Mashni.
Saturday’s agenda included a banner paint for the encampment’s contingent to the weekly Hyde Park Palestine solidarity rally, a teach-in on a people’s history of the Vietnam War led by Lily Campbell, and a film screening of the Battle of Algiers (1966).
The march began with a silent procession and then protestors’ voices rang loud and clear through the streets of Sydney’s CBD.
It was broadly noted that the campus security has been friendly, but that there is a feeling that the university will want them to be moved on by the end of the week. Questions loom over graduations which begin next Wednesday, and how that will affect the camp’s continuation.
At 5pm, the activists lit candles on the front lawns in the shape of “GAZA” and held a vigil to commemorate the lost lives in the genocide.
Wednesday April 24 saw a schedule of rallies, speak outs, and teach-ins. However, questions hang over its survival with the planned ANZAC Day dawn service tomorrow morning.
The art-making followed a small rally organised by Students For Palestine in front of the Quadrangle. Together, these two events christened the encampment occurring on Tuesday night in solidarity with the student protesters of Columbia University, who are facing police arrests en masse at their sit-ins.
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.
