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Hundreds of WA students walk off campuses to protest U.S. aid to Israel (www.seattletimes.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hundreds of high school and college students across the Puget Sound region walked out of school Tuesday to protest Israel’s fighting in Gaza.

Some gathered outside their school’s front offices, where they listened to student leaders chant into megaphones. Others left school and flocked to Cal Anderson Park in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood to do the same. Anywhere from 20 to 150 students turned out at each of a dozen Seattle-area schools, but overall the protests were calm and low-key.

“We demand a free Palestine,” and “Free, free Palestine,” students chanted at Cal Anderson Park. They carried posters that read “Genocide is never justified” and “Cease-fire now” during a small march down streets in West Seattle.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're right, but probably not in the way you intended. Better use of tuition money than tax dollars funding genocide.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Man, imagine thinking that protesting and civic discourse is something you shouldn't be doing in a institute of higher learning.

Dude thinks college is about getting golden check marks instead of learning how to engage with and improve society.