Pro-Palestinian protests at UW-Madison, in review
After two weeks, and just ahead of commencement, protesters agreed to remove an encampment on Library Mall in exchange for commitments from the administration. Here's a recap of events.
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"I'm in it for as long as it takes," UW graduate student Halsey Hazzard said.
Protestors begin their second day at the encampment on Library Mall, despite warnings from school administrations.
More than two-dozen tents remained on the Library Mall Tuesday, the second day of a pro-Palestinian protest at UW-Madison.
Hundreds of protesters linked arms and chanted as police began taking down the Students for Justice in Palestine encampment on UW-Madison’s Li…
Police moved on the crowd around the remaining tents around 8 a.m.
Riot police swarming Columbia University are taking students into custody at the New York campus, which ignited a wave of protests across the U.S. over the Israel-Hamas war.
"I take seriously my role as someone who tries to defend the students, to teach them, to educate them and to have a really good kind of a protective shield around them."
Just hours after police took down the majority of tents on Library Mall, protesters got new ones and pitched them in the same spots. They’re a…
The protest began Monday morning with the establishment of an encampment that flouts university rules.
Authorities detained multiple people as they clashed with protesters while dismantling an encampment at the pro-Palestinian protest that started Monday.
Early Wednesday, scores of law enforcement officers moved in to remove an unsanctioned encampment that had been set up as part of a days-long …
Tensions rose Wednesday morning at what had been a peaceful protest at UW-Madison as police removed the encampment from Library Mall.
A proposed resolution also requests changes to keep police from interfering with lawful exercise of free speech and to communicate with protesters and affected elected officials.
Two days after it went up, a pro-Palestinian encampment on Library Mall was largely dismantled by police early Wednesday, with 34 people arrested and some protesters and police officers injured in the noisy fracas that followed.
Outside Bascom Hall, faculty and staff held banners voicing their support for the student protesters as they met with the administration.
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Pro-Palestinian UW-Madison students and faculty demonstrators protest for the fourth day on the campus of the University of Wisconsin.Â
Three of the four were banned from the UW-Madison campus while the sole student in the group was banned from Library Mall.
Mecha de UW Madison and Anticolonial Scientists were suspended after UW's Committee on Student Organizations received complaints and media reports Sunday and Monday.
Pro-Palestinian protesters have held firm on their six demands, while Jewish and Israeli students on Monday released their own set of requests.
New language in a pro-encampment council resolution removes references to alleged Israeli atrocities in Gaza and condemns the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.Â
Pro-Palestine student protesters and Jewish and Israeli students have each released sets of demands of UW-Madison leadership.
"My problem with the resolutions has been on accountability or pretending that any of these resolutions will yield accountability," said Council President Yannette Figueroa Cole.
With the recent unrest on campus related to the war in Gaza, UW announced the security measures, which follow typical Badgers gameday protocols.
See video from 10 days of protesting at UW-Madison.
Protest leaders walked out of a meeting with UW-Madison officials Wednesday morning, according to a statement from the university.
Students will leave Library Mall and not disrupt Commencement, university says.
For 7,868 newly minted UW-Madison graduates, Saturday's commencement marked a sort of last hoorah, a time to take in the view from the mountains of discarded vape pens and busted laptop batteries they'd so tirelessly climbed in their collegiate careers.
The court's eventual decision could have considerable impact on Wisconsin's upcoming August 13 primary and November 5 presidential election.
Senate Republicans plan to vote Tuesday override Evers' vetoes of three dozen bills. Republicans don't have the votes in the Assembly to successfully override a veto.
Republicans in the Assembly have given no indication they plan to convene on the override votes passed by the Senate.
