{"id":198423,"date":"2023-11-27T17:41:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=198423"},"modified":"2023-11-30T17:47:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T22:47:24","slug":"queens-students-organize-walkout-in-support-of-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/queens-students-organize-walkout-in-support-of-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen\u2019s students organize walkout in support of Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last Thursday, Queen\u2019s students and community members participated in a walkout in support of Palestine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students, faculty, and community members met at Ontario Hall at 2 p.m. on Thursday, with a crowd of over 200 gathering and more passersby joining in as the protestors marched around campus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The protest was organized by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR), an advocacy group made up of Queen\u2019s students, who posted the event on their Instagram page to spread the word.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In their post, they listed specific demands, including demanding that the University \u201cdivest from companies profiting from Israeli apartheid\u201d and \u201ccut ties from all corporations and institutions complicit in genocide\u201d. They also demanded the University protect Queen\u2019s community members from all forms of hate, including anti-Palestinian racism, anti-Arab racism, Islamophobia, and antisemitism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After gathering at Ontario Hall, the crowd marched throughout campus to spread their message. The crowd chanted \u201cFree, free Palestine\u201d and \u201cStop killing children\u201d as they marched, sporting signs supporting their cause and Palestinian flags.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This protest also follows the SPHR address at the AMS Assembly, at which they claim they were met with disrespect. They released a statement regarding the AMS Assembly, describing how their address was \u201ctargeted and derailed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the full story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday, Queen\u2019s students and community members participated in a walkout in support of Palestine. Students, faculty, and community members met at Ontario Hall at 2 p.m. on Thursday, with a crowd of over 200 gathering and more passersby joining in as the protestors marched around campus. The protest was organized by Solidarity for Palestinian&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":198475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,225],"tags":[7994,563,15637,31959],"radio":[13056],"origine":[267,13051,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198423"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199560,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198423\/revisions\/199560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198423"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=198423"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=198423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}