Auraria Campus officials decline to provide security details as protest encampment grows
The pro-Palestinian protests on the Auraria Campus have cost it nearly $300,000, campus officials reported Tuesday.
The pro-Palestinian protests on the Auraria Campus have cost it nearly $300,000, campus officials reported Tuesday.
The digital news site Denverite (owned by Colorado Public Radio), as well as other leftward-tilting Colorado news outlets, recently referred to the inhabitants of a pro-Hamas tent encampment on the Auraria Campus in Denver as “anti-war.”
Ignoring university officials, pro-Palestinian protesters set up roughly 40 tents over the weekend at the Auraria Campus in Denver, saying they are prepared to “defend” the encampment until their demands — notably divestment from companies that operate in Israel — are met.
More than 200 hundred protesters — many of them students — occupied the Auraria campus on Thursday night to make several demands, notably divestment from corporations that operate in Israel.