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For five days, the shouts of student protesters and supporters rang out from Northwestern University’s Deering Meadow as they joined demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war unfolding on college campuses nationwide.

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00:00I think divestment is a really long process and the first step to divesting
00:06is knowing where this university's money is and so I think that's probably in my
00:11mind the biggest most important thing and I know that a lot of students and
00:16people community members are disappointed in this agreement but I
00:20just want to say that there's things in this agreement that I think a lot of
00:23Palestinian Arab you know Muslim students been fighting for for a long
00:26time but this agreement by no means you know suggests that this movement is
00:31dying or that we're stopping we have other demands and I want to see those
00:37demands met we want divestment that's the goal and yeah disclosure is the floor
00:42to get to divestment I mean for me personally my steam is not dying down
00:46I think yesterday was a very emotional day I think that the word the way that
00:50the university worded its announcement perhaps makes it seem like the
00:55protesters out here were making some major concession and we were agreeing
00:58to stopping and we were satisfied and that's not the truth I'm energized I'm
01:02ready to keep going I'm ready to push this administration in this university
01:05on all of the other things that the people's resolution says it includes and
01:09so I think that people you know are feeling the height of exhaustion I know
01:14I hadn't slept in 48 hours before last night and so I think people need to
01:18regroup and process a little bit but I don't see this as something that's going
01:21to squash the the momentum of the people we were able to mobilize out here
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