In this episode, we speak to Noor and Simon, two of the student organizers of ⁠The People’s University for Palestine⁠, and members of ⁠SJP UAlberta⁠.  On May 9, 2024 at 5AM, students, faculty, and community members set up an encampment  at the University of Alberta’s main quad. The People’s University for Palestine encampment was erected in solidarity with the Palestinian peoples facing a genocide perpetuated by Israel. Community assembled to call out the University of Alberta for their complicity in the genocide. The encampment had four key demands: disclose, divest, defend and declare. For two days, the camp was not just what the university called a “disruptive protest”, but it doubled as a generative site of learning, visiting, sharing and more. On May 11, 2024 at 4:30AM, baton-wielding police officers from the Public Safety Unity stormed the camp with pepper spray and what seemed to be tear gas. Two people were arrested, four people sustained injuries, and one required hospitalization.This episode of Keep Moving originally aired live on CJSR 88.5FM on Monday May 13, 2024.Linktree: ⁠https://linktr.ee/keepmovingpodcast⁠ Instagram: ⁠@KeepMovingPodcast⁠

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