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HALIFAX, N.S. — Although they only had to come from across town, they started arriving on Sunday. By mid-Monday, a couple of dozen people — many of them wearing the distinctly patterned black-and-white Palestinian keffiyeh, others the masks that have become symbolic of the Gaza protests sweeping North American university campuses — had gathered in the Dalhousie University quad to call for the liberation of Palestine.
One of the organizers led a pro-Palestinian cheer through a megaphone. Some Palestinian hip-hop spilled from a speaker as a man bedecked in a Palestinian flag handed out an armful of donated pizza. The unnamed rally leader I spoke to said the Dalhousie administration couldn’t have been more civil and that one of the school’s security officers vowed to come back and set up his own tent here.Despite the seriousness of the issue, the mood there on Monday was as pleasant as the weather.
Bee Lennox, a media studies student at Kings, sitting on the grass at Monday’s rally, was there because she wanted to see an end to the war in Gaza.But at 20 she is a nine-year veteran of the activism frontlines. She was involved in such sweeping issues back in her home in Newfoundland as climate change but also local concerns like road clearing and road safety.
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