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TODAY’S EVENTS! 🍉 Join us at the Falasteen Lawn today for teach-ins, a vigil, and a few updates!

As always, the ZAO MKE Church is supporting the students by taking donations across the street. Here is an updated list of requested donations:

Urgent Needs

Tents

Albuterol (inhaler)

EpiPen

Rechargeable batteries (AAA)

Walkies- 5 pairs (midland t51vp3)

Covid tests

Blankets

Tarps

Needs

Flood lights

Canopies

Garbage bins (2)

Helmets

Containers

Flashlights

Ponchos

Benadryl

Lawn Chairs

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The UWM Popular University for Palestine's daily program for May 1st

We invite the community to join us in these activities. This is a family friendly peaceful protest. All Milwaukeeans against genocide are welcome!

Located across the street from the encampment, ZAO MKE Church is working to support the students, and is taking donations from the community. Here is a list of supplies that have been requested:

Blankets

Sleeping bags

Sleeping pads

Pillows

Tarps

Zip ties

Tent stakes

Handles for structure

PVC

Helmets

Blankets

USB-A charger bricks

Walkies -midland t51vp3

Containers

Batteries (AA/AAA)

Flashlights

Ponchos

Zyrtec

Benadryl

Lawn Chairs

Supportive Throat Care

-Throat coat tea or Lozenges

-Thermoses

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Yesterday the UWM Popular University for Palestine's instagram account was permanently disabled, only 5 hours after being launched. Their new account is uwm4palicoalition. Here is their response to UW-Milwaukee's statement made on April 29, 2024:

We have read the "UWM statement on free speech and campus protests" issued by the UWM administration on Monday, April 29, 2024, and we continue to be disappointed by the university's inaction.

While we share the administration's goal of maintaining a campus that provides a safe and welcoming environment for students, employees, and visitors, we do not want our university to be in any way involved or complicit with an occupying and oppressive foreign regime that is engaged in war crimes and ethnic cleansing against the families of some of our students.

In addition, the UWM administration should not want or expect us to remain silent or passive in the face of those who promote or support such a regime. We are certain the the UWM administration would not be trying to appease Nazi, KKK or other such groups. In its more than 200-day assault on Gaza, the Israeli regime has destroyed EVERY university in Gaza and murdered hundreds of professors and thousands of students, in addition to over 15,000 children. Israel has decimated the infrastructure of Gaza, including its healthcare, water, sewage and all other life-sustaining systems. The Israeli regime committed these and many other atrocities while using water, food, and medical care as weapons against an innocent civilian population. These are all war crimes under international law. Why does the UWM administration continue to try and appease those who blatantly support the regime that is engaging in such crimes?

We are disappointed that the UWM administration has responded to these crimes that are unparalleled in modern history and that directly impact the families of UWM students by meekly calling for "an end to the violence", the "release of hostages" (which does not seem to include the thousands of Palestinian hostages held by Israel nor the millions of Palestinians held hostage under Israel's occupation).

We reiterate the demands that we have provided to the UWM administration. Demands that will simply require the UWM administration to adopt a moral and ethical position respecting the basic human and civil rights of all people.

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uwm4palicoalition:

Over the weekend, the world has seen the settler state of Israel openly committing a scholasticide in Gaza. As students, we must and we will take whatever action necessary to ensure that institutions associated with us have no part in this genocide. Scroll through to learn what has happened since the encampment and what will happen in the future for UWM Popular University for Palestine. DISCLOSE, DIVEST! WE WILL NOT STOP! WE WILL NOT REST!

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SOLIDARITY THROUGH STRUGGLE TEACH-IN Palestine is the beacon of hope for freedom fighters all around the world. From solidarity with Black liberation with the Black Panther Party to the Ferguson uprising, to the fight against pinkwashing U.S. imperialism and standing with queer Palestinians, a free Palestine means a step towards liberation for all of our struggles. Palestinian freedom fighters have showed us what true solidarity looks like, and continue to do so! The U.S. war machine is pervasive in its oppression, and our unwavering solidarity between each struggle is paramount. Come hear from us at Falasteen Lawn as part of the @uwm4palicoalition today at 7pm! No one is free until we are all free! ✊