DePaul University has reached an “impasse” in negotiations with the school’s pro-Palestine encampment, administrators said Saturday night, as protest organizers worry they’ll be forcefully removed.…
A person walks through a pro-Palestinian encampment at DePaul University Sunday, May 5, 2024, in Chicago. DePaul University has reached an “impasse” in negotiations with the school’s pro-Palestine encampment, administrators said Saturday night, as protest organizers worry they’ll be forcefully removed from the Lincoln Park quad, accusing the school of negotiating in “bad faith.” remains unclear.
However, representatives with the DePaul Divestment Coalition said they felt pressured to close the encampment immediately and that they had too little notice to properly consider the latest response. They called on the school at a Saturday night news conference to continue negotiations, urging them to disclose their investments and divest from those with ties to Israel or weapons manufacturers.
Mundi said school administrators have cited “vague threats that they’re unwilling and unable to specify” as the reason the encampment must end. She said it would be a “mistake” for them to call in Chicago police to break it up. Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez, 25th, said at the news conference that students are exercising their First Amendment rights to “denounce the genocide, to denounce the complicity of our own government.”
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