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May 8, 2024

Police Raid Encampments at U. of Illinois & Fashion Institute of Technology
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The police crackdown on peaceful student protesters continues across the
country. In Illinois, police cleared an encampment at the University of
Chicago. Here in New York, police forces raided a protest camp at the
Fashion Institute of Technology and arrested dozens of protesters
Tuesday.

Meanwhile, in Europe, police arrested more than 100 activists at the
University of Amsterdam. Police also dismantled an encampment at
Berlin's Free University.

Despite the police repression, new encampments continue to form. In
Cambridge, Massachusetts, students at MIT restarted a Gaza solidarity
encampment.


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