Photo: Junfu Han ~ USA TODAY NETWORK
ANN ARBOR, April 23, 2024 ~ Dozens of students at the University of Michigan set up tents and food Monday at the university Diag, forming a solidarity encampment in support of Gaza.
In the afternoon, hundreds of protestors came in support of the students at the encampment, who are calling on the university to divest funds from companies that support Israel amid its military campaign into the Gaza Strip that has killed over 34,000 people. A growing movement of encampments set up by pro-Palestinian student protestors has swept higher education institutions across the country, largely inspired by an encampment at Columbia University that entered its seventh day Tuesday.
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April 23, 2024 ~ Guy Gordon, Lloyd Jackson, and Jamie Edmonds talk about fans from around the country arriving for the NFL Draft in Detroit, the pro-Palestinian protests that are sweeping Ivy League campuses, Columbia University holding remote classes for the rest of the semester, the beginning of the criminal trial of former President Donald Trump in Manhattan, and the upcoming charges that will be filed against the suspected drunken driver who killed two children at a boat club in Berlin Township.
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