On Thursday at the University of Arizona, students held a walkout in support of Palestine.
Starting at noon students and community members began to meet near the university’s administration building.
Several student organizers addressed the group who proceeded to march around campus.
The students circled back to the administration building for speeches.
“I think it’s really important even as students to use our voices in this moment and come together,” student Abigail Chavez said.
People at the walkout called on the university to cut ties with corporations that support Israel.
“We’re going to be here organizing week on week, on week, until we get what we want,” Students for Justice in Palestine President Ahmad Riyad said.
Riyad says defense companies, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin are two of the companies he’d like the see the university cut ties with.
“Ending all programs that we have with anything that participates in like the sort of war industrial complex, anything that profits from the killing of people,” Riyad said.