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WR friends: Please show up for 2SLGBTQIA+ students, staff, and families in the WCDSB as trustees prepare to vote on a motion to ban the Pride flag and all other "political symbols" from school property.

There will be peaceful protests at WCDSB headquarters (35 Weber St West, Kitchener) during the 6pm board meetings on Monday, April 14, and Monday, April 28 (the night of the vote).

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Posted • In our initial communications, we were too focused on the q***r community and neglected to express the intersectionality of this issue. Upon self reflection and conversations with allies from other communities, we have developed this statement.

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Posted • Sally and Dalia.

Twin sisters from Gaza, they were admitted to the University of Waterloo’s PhD program in Systems Design Engineering through the Palestinian Students & Scholars At Risk (PSSAR) initiative.

Sally and Dalia were killed in an Israeli airstrike on civilians during the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Their lives ended before they could even begin their journey.

The University of Waterloo, the very institution that accepted them, is complicit in their murder. Waterloo’s partnerships with Technion, its investments in weapons manufacturers, and its silence make it an accomplice in the systems of genocide and settler colonialism that murdered Sally and Dalia. Waterloo’s hands are drenched in blood, their blood.

We rage. We grieve. We demand justice.

Sally and Dalia deserved life. They deserved to fulfill their dreams, to seek education and to live in freedom. We will never forget them. We will fight for a world where their memory fuels liberation. A world where universities no longer profit from genocide.

Divest now. End complicity. Honour their names with action.

Glory to Sally and Dalia. Glory to the martyrs.