Student protesters at prestigious Sciences Po university stage demonstration in support of Palestini

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"Po University 2. Wide exterior of Sciences Po with rubbish bins, a rental bike and wood scraps blocking entrance 3. Wide from outside showing students inside building with pro-Palestinian placards 4. Students occupying the university chanting from window (French) ""We are all Palestinians"" 5. Woman with face covered by a keffiyeh chanting (French) ""The struggle for Palestine."" 6. Wide of objects blocking entrance to Sciences Po 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise (no last name given), Pro-Palestinian student protester: ""We may have been inspired from what is happening at Columbia, at Yale, at Harvard, at UNC (University of North Carolina), at Vanderbilt, at all these universities in America. But our solidarity remains first and foremost with the Palestinian people."" 8. Cutaway of pro-Palestinian protesters of the school seen from outside with placard 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise (no last name given), Pro-Palestinian student protester: ""We voted and there are, I would say, around 40 comrades left inside who have slept the night and they will be staying there until further notice."" 10. Cutaway of sign with Palestinian flag with word (English) ""Open Gaza"" and (French) ""Long Live the Palestinian People's Resistance"" 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise (no last name given), Pro-Palestinian student protester: ""On the impact on students that actually want to go to school, I understand that there are exams in two weeks, I understand that this is a stressful period. We are also all very stressed about our academic engagement but the situation in Gaza is so dire right now that I cannot and we cannot allow ourselves to just be concerned about our own personal priorities. This is bigger than us. We need to mobilize in universities because as members of an academic community we have a responsibility when there is cases of epistemicide and scholasticide going on in the world which is exactly what's happening in Gaza right now."" 12. Sign from protesters reading (English) ""Our demand cut all ties with Israeli Universities"" 13. Demonstrator wearing keffiyeh chanting (French) ""We are all children of Gaza"" STORYLINE: Students at a prestigious university in Paris resumed pro-Palestinian protests on Friday, days after French police broke up a demonstration, inspired by Gaza solidarity encampments at campuses around the United States. Dozens of students at the Sciences Po university blocked an entrance to a campus building in central Paris with rubbish bins, wood and metal objects and a bicycle. About 40 demonstrators remained in a building overnight in defiance of the university’s management that students say called the police on their fellow protesters on Wednesday night. One protestor named Louise said the demonstrators were partly inspired by student protests in the US but stressed that ""our solidarity remains first and foremost with the Palestinian people."" Louise said that she understood the academic impact the protests had on other students but added that people should not ""just be concerned about our own personal priorities."" ""This is bigger than us. We need to mobilize in universities because as members of an academic community we have a responsibility when there is cases of epistemicide and scholasticide going on in the world which is exactly what's happening in Gaza right now,"" said Louise. "

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