ORGANIZERS SAY PROPOSAL IS “NOT SATISFACTORY,” PLAN TO SUBMIT COUNTER-OFFER
On May 27th, the 29th day of the student protest for Palestine on Tabaret Lawn, University of Ottawa administration submitted their first proposal to organizers. In a conversation with the Fulcrum, INSAF president Sumayya Kheireddine said that the proposal is “not satisfactory.”
Student protesters plan to submit a counter-offer later this week after discussing the proposal as a group. The details of the proposal have not been made available to the Fulcrum, and University of Ottawa spokesperson Jesse Robichaud has not responded to the Fulcrum’s request for comment on the proposal at the time of publication.
By this Friday, June 1, administrators are expected to disclose their updated list of investments. Organizers anticipate the list to include Axon Enterprise, Airbus SE, CAE Inc, Scotiabank, Blackrock Inc., Estee Lauder Companies, Intel Corporation, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, Amot Investments Ltd., Atlas Copco, Booking Holdings, SolarEdge Technologies Inc., WSP Global Inc., and Cisco Systems Inc., which are “corporations [that] facilitate Israel’s occupation and genocide in Gaza.”
Student protesters have been asking the university for four demands to be met: disclosure of an updated investment list, divestment from “any and all corporations involved directly and indirectly in the surveillance, occupation, and murder of Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank,” academic boycott of Israeli institutions, and the adoption of the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association (ACLA) definition of Anti-Palestinian Racism.
This is a developing story. Updates regarding the negotiation process will be published in separate articles throughout the week.
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- BREAKING: U of O students plan sit-in for Palestine
- U of O administration responds to sit-in plans
- Student Sit-In Begins April 29th on Tabaret Lawn
- Disclosure and Divestment: A look at U of O protesters’ demands
- BREAKING: Student Sit-In turns into active encampment
- Student Sit-In Continues on Tabaret Lawn for a Second Day; Turns Into Encampment
- ‘A simple meeting is the first step’: reviewing Day 3 of U of O’s student encampment
- “Divest is the neutral position”: Recapping Day 4 of U of O’s student encampment
- “Look away like you do for genocide”: Student Encampment Continues for Fifth Day
- ‘It’s important to … remember that we’re not in this alone’: reviewing day 6 of the U of O encampment
- U of O protest continues into second week: Day 8 recap
- Negotiations with University Break Down: Day 9 recap
- Political and Social Groups Respond: Reviewing Day 10 of the U of O protest
- Tent shelters, teach-ins continue at protest: Day 11 recap
- ‘Academia should be concerned with people’: recapping the 12th day of the U of O encampment
- Second Saturday of protest marked by community presence, rain: Day 13 recap
- Week Two Recap: Encampment, community support grows as organizers set to meet with university administration
- U of O protest organizers hold preliminary meeting with university administration: Day 15 recap
- Tensions high at Ottawa City Hall as Israeli flag flies: Day 16 recap
- University agrees to give timeline for disclosure of investments: Day 17 recap
- U of O offers timeline for disclosure; protesters interrupt Congrès de l’Acfas meetings: Day 18/19 recap
- Community rally walks through campus as protest continues for 20th day
- Progress on demands or administrative performativity? Week 3 Recap of the U of O encampment
- U of O encampment remains for fourth week as others in province end
- BREAKING: U of O submits first proposal to student protesters
- ‘Canada, you’re complicit in the genocide of Palestinians’: community protests at CANSEC, police station, and Parliament Hill
- INSAF, PSA provide negotiations update ahead of U of O disclosure
- University of Ottawa sends second proposal to encampment organizers
