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VIU encampment continues as university seeks injunction
Around 50 people were at a protest at the VIU Palestine Solidarity Encampment still stands at Vancouver Island University’s Nanaimo campus after receiving a trespass notice ordering protestors to vacate by 8 a.m. July 15.
CHLY was on scene for a protest organized by the encampment beginning at the 8 a.m. Monday deadline where the Students for Palestine Committee read a statement outlining their intention to continue with the encampment.
They say student protestors have no choice but to continue fighting in solidarity with Palestine.
In a statement from the university that was posted later that day, VIU says the encampment continues to have a presence on the campus, and they have retained external counsel and have commenced a court action in the Supreme Court of British Columbia to seek “injunctive relief and damages from the encampment participants.”