{"id":33905,"date":"2024-05-23T13:43:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=33905"},"modified":"2024-05-23T13:43:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:43:22","slug":"update-usf-starts-clearing-gaza-encampment-protesters-mad-because-they-claim-they-said-theyd-leave-willingly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/05\/23\/update-usf-starts-clearing-gaza-encampment-protesters-mad-because-they-claim-they-said-theyd-leave-willingly\/","title":{"rendered":"[Update] USF Starts Clearing Gaza Encampment, Protesters Mad Because They Claim They Said They\u2019d Leave Willingly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

21 MAY 2024\/SF NEWS<\/a>\/JOE KUKURA<\/a> (SFist.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There is a clear difference of opinion between the University of San Francisco and the last remaining Gaza encampment protesters there, as the protesters agreed to move out on Monday, but the university started hauling their tents anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re interested in what\u2019s going on with the Gaza protest encampment at the University of San Francisco, and you search on \u201cUSF Gaza protest,\u201d you\u2019re likely to see results showing a different USF Gaza protest some 3,000 miles away at the Tampa campus of the University South Florida<\/a>, which also goes by the initialism \u201cUSF.\u201d That Florida protest brought violent skirmishes<\/a> and police using tear gas<\/a>, whereas the University of San Francisco encampment has been far more peaceful over the course of the past couple weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(There was, simultaneously, a separate encampment at San Francisco State University, which also seemed to resolve peacefully<\/a> two weeks ago.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that uneasy peace seems to have broken Monday. While the remaining protesters with tents pitched at the university\u2019s Welch Field say that told university officials that they agreed to leave Monday, the university disputes this. The Chronicle reports that school employees started clearing the tents Monday morning<\/a>, before the protesters could pack things up themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe had just woken up,\u201d student organizer Susu Steyteyieh told the Chronicle. \u201cThe camp was still full. \u2026 They didn\u2019t give us a warning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For their part, the university claims that the some 50 remaining tents were \u201cabandoned property,\u201d and the people staying in them had left. (USF is now officially on summer break.) The university said the tents would be stored for the students to pick up, or they would be donated if not picked up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The USF protest was not as large or long-running as the UC Berkeley Gaza encampment<\/a>, but had grown to about 100 tents earlier this month. School officials offered the protesters an amnesty deal if they left<\/a> by 3 pm last Tuesday, prior to last Saturday\u2019s graduation ceremony, but many protesters defied that deadline<\/a> and remained camped at Welch Field.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet this whole thing may be moving toward a peaceful resolution, perhaps as early as today. University spokesperson Kellie Samson told the Chronicle that the protesters \u201cagreed to pick up their remaining belongings by Tuesday morning.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Update:<\/strong> Samson reached out to SFist to clarify that “The protesters did not<\/em> notify university officials that they were moving out. USF staff began packing unoccupied tents and abandoned property [on Monday] with the intention of storing all items for pickup or donation. When staff was approached by a few students who arrived at the field, they informed staff then that they intended to remove the encampment and vacate the field that day. They had not <\/em>informed staff of this until that moment.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related: <\/strong>Berkeley Protesters Have Broken Into and Occupied Empty Building In Renewed Pro-Palestine Protest [SFist]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image: @monishabajaj <\/em>via Twitter<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*This post has been updated with comments from university spokesperson Kellie Samson.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

21 MAY 2024\/SF NEWS\/JOE KUKURA (SFist.com) There is a clear difference of opinion between the University of San Francisco and the last remaining Gaza encampment protesters there, as the protesters agreed to move out on Monday, but the university started hauling their tents anyway. If you\u2019re interested in what\u2019s going… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33905"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33907,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33905\/revisions\/33907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}