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Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at University of Washington occupation (www.theguardian.com)

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Edward Helmore
Tue 6 May 2025 09.32 EDT

"More than two dozen pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested on Monday night at the University of Washington in Seattle after they occupied an engineering building and set dumpsters on fire.

The protest group, called Super UW, occupied the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building to demand that the university sever its ties with Boeing, as the aerospace company has military contracts which the students say “are used by Israel in their US-funded genocide of Palestinian people”."

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[–] blakenong@lemmings.world -3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Buzz word. They tried to burn the place down.

[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 5 points 4 days ago

Well, I guess that's equal to what Palestine has dealt with

[–] Ascrod@midwest.social 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

While dumpsters may be symbolic of much larger things, materially they are still only dumpsters.

[–] KAtieTot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 days ago

Outside of the plastic lids, are the dumpsters even damaged? Big metal boxes often contain fires pretty well