Protesters remain at the UC Divest at UCLA encampment as it enters its third day. The protesters are supplying themselves through community donations. (Aidan Sun/Daily Bruin)
For the Daily Bruin’s full coverage of the UC Divest Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine encampment, see here.
On day three of the pro-Palestine encampment at UCLA, protesters continue to rely on food donations and access to on-campus restrooms.
Hundreds of students formed an encampment in Dickson Plaza on Thursday morning to call for the UC to divest from companies associated with the Israeli military and cut ties with LAPD in addition to a ceasefire in Israel’s destruction of the Gaza Strip.
For the Daily Bruin’s full coverage of the UC Divest Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine encampment, see here.
A GoFundMe to support counter-protests of the UCLA pro-Palestine encampment has raised $50,943 in the past 15 hours.
Students expressed concern that UCLA has not provided proper accessibility for students with disabilities, including alleged ADA violations, on campus after an encampment began in Dickson Plaza.
Participants of the pro-Palestine encampment at UCLA said they spent Thursday night and the early hours of Friday morning maintaining their structures without knowing how the UCLA administration would react.
Counter-protesters gathered Thursday afternoon and evening in Dickson Plaza, waving Israeli flags to demonstrate against an ongoing encampment in support of Palestine.
The encampment, led by UCLA’s chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and the UC Divest Coalition, began early that morning – just as the war in Gaza passed its 200th day.
Most students in Chemistry 14A are around 19 years old, fresh out of high school and ready to take on the challenge of college.
Max Steinberg, on the other hand, was nine.
This post was updated April 25 at 1:06 a.m.
Organizers led chants and speeches in Dickson Plaza on Thursday afternoon as the protest encampment continued and counter-protests formed.
Students and community members had mixed feelings about the ongoing pro-Palestine encampment on campus, with some expressing support while others said it made them uncomfortable.
Hundreds of people gathered with tents outside Royce Hall on Thursday to call for the UC to divest from companies associated with the Israeli military and to boycott Israeli academic institutions.
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