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Several members of Sulong UBC were among the 100+ demonstrators gathered for a protest against the G7 leadership on National Indigenous Peoples Day on Saturday afternoon, taking over some of downtown Vancouver’s busiest streets to call attention to various anti-imperialist issues a week after world leaders met at the high-stakes summit in Kananaskis, Alberta.
Campus community members gathered for a vigil yesterday afternoon in front of the UBC Bookstore to commemorate the victims and families affected by the Lapu Lapu Day festival tragedy on April 26.
As UBC’s Board of Governors (BoG) met in the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre to approve the university’s 2025/26 budget last Friday, a group of about two-dozen protesters called on the BoG from outside the locked and guarded Alumni Centre to divest from companies they say are complicit in genocide and human rights abuses in Gaza and the West Bank.
As students filtered into UBC on March 24 and 25 they were met with the booming chants — and at times songs — of pro-Palestine protesters.
On November 21, the sound of whistles, clanging and chants of “free Palestine” and “divest now” could be heard as students made their way to class in Buchanan.
On September 19, Student Strike for Palestine UBC held a rally inside the Nest to demand UBC divest from companies organizers say are complicit in human rights violations against Palestinians.
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