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The mobile shelter, which debuted in 2023 after a 70-tent encampment was removed from the site, consists of an open space where about 50 tents equipped with cots and bedding are organized in lines.
Tent encampments have long been a fixture of West Coast cities, but are now spreading across the U.S. ... Crews have shut down nearly 5,000 camps in the city of 650,000 since November 2022, but ...
As students protesting the Israel-Hamas war at college campuses across U.S. dug in Saturday and vowed to keep their demonstrations going, some universities moved to shut down encampments after ...
Three more encampments emerged under bridges in Kensington in the wake of the El Campamento sweep, and those were shut down in the summer of 2018. In January 2019, the Jim Kenney administration shut down the last major bridge encampment in Kensington on Emerald Street. In January 2020, the city cleared an encampment at 18th and Vine Streets.
On April 25, 2024, a student protest began at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to protest the administration's investments in Israel. The occupation, self-titled as the 'Palestine Solidarity Encampment', [5] was a part of pro-Palestine protests on university campuses campaigning for divestment from Israel. [6]
After being tolerated for some time, they were eventually forced to shut down. In March 2002, as a result of a legal battle, city attorney Tom Carr and SHARE/WHEEL attorney Ted Hunter signed a court-ordered consent decree with SHARE, allowing Tent City only on private land (by invitation) and setting standards for its operation.
Contractors from the city of Portland had arrived to break down tents and tarps on a side street behind a busy intersection and people had an hour to vacate. Tent encampments have long been a ...
Early on April 30, Columbia suspended press access to campus, and said only identified students and essential personnel would be allowed in. [184] In preparation to enter the campus, the NYPD closed multiple streets in and around the campus, the administration locked down Hamilton Hall, and all freedom of movement was restricted.