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First fact is that strict majority of people I talked to are neither students nor affiliated with our university. We have something like 100k students and tons of staff, so it's not hard to find them! But yeah, "student encampment" is just objectively wrong as a description.

I asked "why protest here", esp. to folks who had no personal link to U of T. They said because U of T won't divest. I said U of T has no such investments other than index funds and the like, same as that owned by the Canada Pension Plan or Teacher's Pension or their parents 10/x Response was always "we agree, everyone's complicit in genocide". At one point, group I was talking to argued that Kenya sending peacekeeping troops to Haiti was colonial violence. Given language, I suspect IMT played a role in organizing