After Friday’s arrests of 40 protestors , over half of whom were students, a cold and wet weekend and a visit from civil rights icon Angela Davis on Saturday, the encampment on the lawn of the Tivoli at the Auraria Campus was largely a scene of serenity on Sunday as the sun shined and protestors passed the time.
Some students in the neighboring CU Denver residence hall posted signs of support in their windows.
“I want you to know how important it is that you are taking this stand and this moment,” Davis said, addressing the protesters. “I want to emphasize what this means for history. As you imagine this period being narrated 10 years, 20 years, 50 years from now, you will be the historical actors who made it possible for a breakthrough for the struggle against Zionism and the struggle for a free Palestine.”
Davis was heavily involved in the civil rights movement in the 1960s as a professor and activist. She has written about and protested against capitalism, segregation and racism in the American south, protested against the Vietnam War, imperialism and war, generally, and even participated in the Girl Scouts National Roundup in Colorado in 1959.