Defying police violence, students extend encampments for Palestine ( www.workers.org )

At a street rally on April 28 that gathered dozens of neighbors from nearby apartment buildings, FIT encampment organizers invited Workers World Party First Secretary Larry Holmes to speak. Holmes said to the students, “You have brought tears of joy to Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank. … They’re so happy with what you are doing here. You are a wave of revolution that is sweeping the world.”

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Student encampment raises its demands, April 25, 2024. City College, New York.

Despite threats made by city authorities, especially Mayor Eric Adams, to unleash riot police to shut down the encampments with arrests, the students, along with sympathetic faculty members, are determined to resist such repression. Until their demands are met, they, along with the other encampments countrywide, will not come down without a fight.

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Picket line at New School in New York City, April 22, 2024. Solidarity with Palestine.

By the middle of April 29, most sources were reporting at least 75 active encampments, which had spread beyond the U.S. to McGill in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to Paris and to some universities in North Africa and West Asia.

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Outside NYU’s business school, New York, April 22, 2024. Students later moved encampment to Washington Square Park.

(Emphasis original.)