Pro-Palestinian demonstrators at the University of Chicago encampment announced an extensive list of demands, including defunding campus police and demanding reparations.
The camp, called the People’s University of Gaza and the University of Chicago, announced a long list of demands during Tuesday’s rally, in which demonstrators simply called for the university to be “separated” from Israel. The university has retreated from “interrelated forces of death and violence,” including “fossil fuel production,” according to the website. fox news.
“The University of Chicago in the Gaza Strip demands that the University of Chicago withdraw from the Gaza massacre. We demand that they withdraw from the relationship and sever ties with the Israel Institute,” the demonstrators said. “We also call on the University of Chicago to divest from the interconnected forces of death and violence it is currently complicit in, particularly fossil fuel production, UCPD, and construction projects that facilitate the displacement of the South Side. .
The protester added:
The Popular University of Chicago in the Gaza Strip requires universities to disclose their investments in the university. We demand full transparency about the University of Chicago’s budget, investments, and holdings, particularly its financial involvement in Israeli apartheid, weapons manufacturing, fossil fuel production, and real estate ownership and investments in the South Side and UCPD. Masu. This includes a commitment to regularly disclose data about funds and holdings in each of these areas. It would also establish a mandatory committee of students, faculty, staff, and other community stakeholders to facilitate divestment and ensure that future investment decisions follow established justice-based guidelines. It contains.
The People’s University of Chicago in the Gaza Strip is demanding that the damage caused by the university be repaired. We demand that the University of Chicago repair the damage it has caused in Palestine, Chicago, and beyond. This includes explicitly recognizing such harm and implementing a collectively responsible reparation program. More specifically, these include: 1. Recognizing Israeli genocide and academic murder in Palestine and supporting Birzeit University’s efforts to rebuild higher education in Gaza; 2. Sign the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment. 3. Disband UCPD and redirect funds to community-based projects on the South Side. 4. Allocate funding for annual rent subsidies and local schools, expand employer-subsidized housing, fund long-term affordable housing, and halt southside expansion. 5. Decarbonize the endowment and reduce emissions by 50% by 2023, consistent with the University’s existing sustainability plan for campus emissions.
The first pro-Palestinian camp was set up at Columbia University on April 17, and the next day several students were suspended and hundreds of protesters were arrested.
The first encampment at Columbia University was cleared, but another encampment was set up and left in place until New York City police raided it after protesters took over Hamilton Hall, an academic building on campus. .
Pro-Palestinian encampments and protests have erupted on college campuses across the country in support of the first encampment at Columbia University.
Protesters participating in various encampments and protests face withdrawal from Israeli companies, severing academic ties with Israeli educational institutions, suspension of student travel to Israel, and criminal charges and disciplinary action. He has released a list of demands, including a full amnesty for the protesters. Actions and ceasefires in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.
