‘All of humanity should break out in a fever’: Seven days at Western University’s encampments
Originally published at NB Media Coop on May 24, 2024 Earlier this month, students at Western University in London, Ontario began organizing encampments demanding divestment from companies funding genocide. Western University currently invests $33.6 million in companies complicit in Israel’s violent occupation of Palestine. The first encampment was on May 1 and ran from noon to midnight; the second was on May 8 and was also planned from noon to midnight, but instead became indefinite from that point onwards. The following is an account of the encampment’s first seven days. *** “When one part of humanity aches, all of humanity…
