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Small group gathers near University of Waterloo in solidarity with U.S students protesting Israel-Gaza war

The co-organizer said that they are making the rally a weekly event

CBC News · May 01, 2024 

A small group of students and residents gathered near the University of Waterloo on Wednesday in solidarity with American students occupying parts of university campuses across the U.S. in protest of the Israel-Hamas war. 

Tamara Lorincz, the co-organizer of the local rally and a PhD candidate at Wilfrid Laurier University, said that the rally will be a weekly event, meeting at University Avenue where it crosses the Laurel Trail.  

“This is why I’m doing this action today, is to just try to be very public and visible, that there are people in Waterloo, there are students like myself in Waterloo that are standing in solidarity with the American students and with the people of Gaza,” said Lorincz.  

Lorincz explained that she would support an encampment in Waterloo reigon similar to those in the U.S. 

The demonstration of about a dozen people in Waterloo was part of a larger movement being seen at universities across the country and the U.S., which began at Columbia University in New York, where students and activists are urging academic institutions to divest from companies with business interests in Israel………………………………….. more https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/hamas-israel-gaza-uw-laurier-1.7190259

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