About a dozen students arrested by police conducting a sit-in on a college campus in Denver emerged from their arrest to cheers from fellow pro-Palestinian protesters, several waving yellow summonses like small victory flags and pleading with fellow protesters not to let their energy fade.
How much lasting power the student demonstrations over the war in Gaza, which have sprung up in Denver and at dozens of universities across the United States, will have is a key question for protesters, school administrators and police as graduation ceremonies are held over the summer holidays. upcoming and high-profile encampments dismantled.
The student demonstrators say passionately that they will continue until administrators meet demands such as a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, the divestment of universities from arms suppliers and other companies that profit from the war, and amnesty for students and teachers who have been punished or fired for protesting.
