University of Florida Students Choose to Break Down Encampment After Receiving List of Allowable and Prohibited Activities – See the Consequences for Non-Compliance (Screenshot)
Students at some of Florida’s public universities have joined the wave of pro-Palestinian demonstrations sweeping the nation this week, but their protests so far have been smaller, quieter and without the forceful police presence seen at many other campuses.
On Florida State University’s expansive Landis Green, students set up with posters and tents at 4 a.m. Thursday. By the afternoon, however, the tents came down while a group of about 30 student protesters remained.
At the University of Florida, a protest that turned a portion of the Plaza of the Americas into a small, grassy “liberation zone” ended its second day late Thursday with no arrests, drawing about 100 students at its peak.
You probably wonder why these protests weren’t with the same intensity as the protests up North!
University of Florida students chose to breakdown their encampment after being handed a list of Allowable Activities and Prohibitive Items and Activities.
Look at those Consequences for Non-Compliance:
This is very well done. Nowhere does the letter say they can’t protest, nor does it tell them that certain viewpoints aren’t acceptable. It simply informs them that they must follow the same rules as everyone else or face the consequences. Pretty simple. Florida setting the example yet again.
Mateo Herrera, president of UCF’s Young Democratic Socialist Association, said student activity in Florida is just beginning.
“We know the climate in Florida,” he said. “We know if we escalate more, we’ll face more repression than what is happening up north. …This experience shows how much universities care about their students and their priorities of who they get their money from.”
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