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About 25 attendees and a rolling group of a dozen or two passersby who stop to listen to the speakers. The event was announced as a rally against both the Iran war and the Gaza occupation and there are both Iranian and Palestinian flags here. The speakers have been focusing on UW-specific issues like asking the university to divest from Boeing (not likely to happen, but a reasonable statement of principle given Boeing’s involvement in weapons manufacture). SUPER UW is also an organizer of the event. Officially UW has banned the group but I think that only affects their ability to reserve facilities; there’s nothing stopping the individual members from gathering on the Quad and calling themselves “SUPER UW”. I have gotten into shouting matches with some of these people before when they started chanting things like “Long Live October 7th”; some of those people attacked me at the Federal building rally yesterday. They haven’t said anything that wildly offensive at this rally so far. And the people who jumped me yesterday are either not here or I don’t recognize them out of black bloc. submitted by /u/bennetthaselton |
