University of Michigan campus march for Gaza, and to demand divestment against Israel -

January 10, 2024:

 University of Michigan campus march for Gaza, in Ann Arbor, including demands for divestment against Israel.



See also the Michigan Daily coverage:

" 'New Year, No Rest’: Pro-Palestine protesters march through multiple campus buildings"

MICHIGAN DAILY

January 12, 2024

https://www.michigandaily.com/campus-life/new-year-no-rest-pro-palestine-protesters-march-through-multiple-campus-buildings/


"Chanting ‘Up, up with liberation! Down, down with occupation!’, more than 100 University of Michigan students and Ann Arbor community members gathered in front of Angell Hall to protest the U-M administration’s response to the Israel-Hamas war and to mourn Palestinians killed in the conflict. The protesters marched through the Diag and entered the Willard H Dow Chemistry & Laboratory, Mason Hall, the School of Kinesiology Building and the LSA Building before ending at the Michigan Union...

“...Social Work student Ariana Gonzalez Pelaez said she attended Wednesday’s protest to pressure the University to cut its financial ties to Israel. 

“ ‘I’m here today, as I have been at the other protests, because I feel like it’s outrageous that we’re already almost four months into a genocide that is funded not only by our University, but by the entire country,’ Gonzalez Pelaez said..."

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