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🌱 between movement lawyering & organizing for our collective Liberation🌱

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Where I'm at mentally
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Bro, her phone is connected to her apple watch and laptop if she wanted to respond she would've
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Shoutout northwestern hacker for editing the school paper 😭 this is so dope
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I hope I never stop seeing Refaat on my feed
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The power of a smile. Refaat #Alareer . Let it be a tale.
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They brought ducks for Tammy Duckworth at the Chicago protest 😭 there isn't something we haven't done
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May we witness the fall of the zionist and traitorous jordanian and egyptian governments within our lifetime
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UChicago has entered the encampment chat 🦋🇵🇸
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They made a garden for Wadea Al Fayoumi at depaul's encampment ❤️‍🔥
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From Chicago to Palestine, always
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ABC 7 Chicago news saying we had 2,000 people at the protest today. The "2,000" in question:
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What happened with that old lady the resistance fighters took in 😭😭 Palestinians are so unserious oh my goooddd
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@Riffs33
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Today, we shut down the streets of Chicago to stand with our Palestinian brother and sisters in Jerusalem facing land theft and zionist violence. #SaveSheikhJarrah
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Let's set the record straight. Israel NOT only holds more than 5,000 Palestinian political prisoners, but ALSO holds Palestinian dead bodies as hostages. So when you speak of "letting the israeli hostages go" know your context.
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Captured at the Northwestern encampment, a beautiful sight ⛺️ 🖤
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The QR goes to this link:
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Little boy at our protest today "israel eat my a$$" 😭 🇵🇸
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Happening NOW: Coalition for Justice in Palestine - Chicago blocking traffic and also doing banner drops on I-294 highway 🇵🇸
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📣 About 40 protestors were arrested at O'Hare International Airport as they blocked terminals 1-3. These protestors were joining the world-wide call to action on Tax Day to demand the U.S government end it's role in funding the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
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This violent zionist girl goes to DePaul University and continues to harass and report pro-Palestinian students to the dean in order to get them punished. Her name is Sophie Frieden and is a junior.
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An update on my cousin: he is being held in Ofer prison for at least 6 months with NO charge. Because of the "war in Gaza" my family is not allowed to speak to him. They haven't spoken to him since he's been kidnapped. All our political prisoners will be free Within Our Lifetime.
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im filled with both tears and such rage. israeli Occupation Forces stormed into my uncles home at 2am and kidnapped my young cousin. They put my family in one room while they destroyed everything in their path. When will it end
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Very disturbing you'd call the exclusion of vaccines to Palestinians a success. Here's a fix to the article***
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CHICAGO - we shut down union station to show that business will NOT continue as usual when my people 🇵🇸 are being genocided! We need EVERYONE to call their reps and alders to demand a #CeasefireNOW
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🇵🇸 🎄 Tonight in Chicago !! Disruption in millenium park to make it known that we will not continue business as usual while funding a genocide! NO joy during genocide! We call on Chicagoans to support the CEASEFIRE resolution introduced by @CDRosa
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Chicago Palestinian/Arab youth shutting a busy intersection down because business will not continue as usual when our land is occupied 🗣❗🇵🇸 #NoToAnnexation
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im filled with both tears and such rage. israeli Occupation Forces stormed into my uncles home at 2am and kidnapped my young cousin. They put my family in one room while they destroyed everything in their path. When will it end
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"We will remain in our homes until the pain goes away" they sing in Gaza literally throw me into a hole - what we are witnessing is too much to bear
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Your honor, motion to be dismissed from law school Alhamdulilah JD '23
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before and after scenes of what was, the lively depaul liberation zone
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This morning at the University of Illinois Chicago's graduation 🇵🇸
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In Palestine when I was with my family, they told me about how when they hear of the IOF coming, they quickly hide all their gold and money because they know the IOF will steal it all during their house raids.
@AJEnglish
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Israel’s Defence Ministry says its forces seized about five million Israeli shekels in cash (approximately $1.33m) in their operations in the Gaza Strip, adding that the money would be put into Israel’s treasury. 🔴 LIVE updates:
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Today's protest was so iconic I lost my kuffiyeh :( if anyone has her please lmk my cousin in the blad gifted it to me 🥲🥲🥲🥲
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📣📰 After the newspaper parody - @NorthwesternU went on a hunt to find those responsible and charged 2 Black students with class A misdemeanor charges. Pressure NU to drop the charges NOW! Email template here:
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Shoutout northwestern hacker for editing the school paper 😭 this is so dope
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Yesterday, Chicago Palestinians and allies attended the Chicago City Council meeting to ensure alders BLOCK the pro-israel resolution introduced by ald. Silverstein. Chicago has the 2nd largest population of Palestinians outside of Palestine. Come tomorrow to say not in our house
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Hamdulilah with the GRACE of Allah, I passed the BAR. May this exam soon be abolished 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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This doesn't even show all of it. Our protest was easily 15-20,000k! Do better @ABC7Chicago ‼️
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Drops on Nakba day
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Here's the whole mural, with the slingshot, because we support Palestinian resistance in all forms 🎨🖌 by @LangstonAllston
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Damn I wish Columbus had a phone
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Hey yall they're lying, this is really why LSD was shut down 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Heads up, Windy City! 🚨 DuSable Lake Shore Drive is closed due to an event at Grant Park. Time to find a new route! #ChicagoTraffic 🚗💨
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Let's set the record straight - every Palestinian organization in Chicago has rejected this meeting but of course there are some Muslim sell outs that chosen to ignore the call of Palestinians.
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New: Senior White House officials are planning to meet with Arab-, Muslim- and Palestinian-American community leaders in Chicago on Thursday, multiple sources familiar with the meeting tell CNN. w/ @abdallahcnn @betsy_klein
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Naw it's green for hamas
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@Riffs33 Chicago River is green for Saint Patrick day.
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#FreePalestine and follow me on ig 😝 Oh and also VOTE @BernieSanders and maybe she'll text back !!!!
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Another day another graduation disrupted for Gaza
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My hijab is not your political instrument. #WorldHijabDay
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SJP activism soo strong on campuses an EXECUTIVE BILL has been signed to stop us. If that ain't power, I dont know what is. To all student activists: keep thriving, pushing for BDS campaigns, and always speak truth to power 🇵🇸
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Going strong on day 15 at the DePaul Liberatiion zone ⛺️ Students will not stop and will not rest
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child predators stand with israel ✊🏼
@jonnysocialism
jønny ⦿⃤🔻 🇵🇸 فلسطين حرة!
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Former Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider speaks out against Jonathan Glazer's Oscar Speech and in support of Israel. "I wouldn't be where I am today without the state of Israel." said Schneider.
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10,000 deep in Chicago today for the Global Day of Action 🇵🇸🪂
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🇵🇸 A historic moment in Chicago city hall today - Chicago has become the largest city in the U.S to finally vote on a ceasefire resolution. Much gratitude for Alders Byron Lopez, La Spata, and Rosanna, & @312Staffers for their hard work on this 🇵🇸🖤
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Day 6 at DePaul encampment
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Palestinians and Arabs protest at Egyptian Consulate in Chicago to demand: 1. Grant security permits to Global Conscience Convoy 2. Demand Egypt opens the border to let humanitarian assistance into Gaza & let the injured be evacuated to hospitals outside of Gaza.
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It would be such a shame if someone ruined goddess and the baker's israeli propaganda in Chicago!!
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@_nadirahp He's just a little misguided sister please let's not publicly shame him while our efforts instead can be used to bash hijabi women ty 🙏🏼
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How is israel a settler colonial apartheid state you ask? Look below.
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Wallah these "suhoor fests" are unreal and so distasteful I hate yall
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"If Palestine was liberated tomorrow would you go back?" YES. YES I WILL
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Palestinian college students be like
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I will always choose to uplift Palestinian resistance over videos that show us as helpless. We are a people who do not seek humanitarian aid. We have political demands of returning to our homes, reparations of our land, & justice for the last 75 years. Do not confuse the two.
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UCPD is the most militarized campus police in the U.S. They raided the UChicago encampment at 4am and dragged people who were sleeping in tents with no warning.
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UCPD tearing down some of our community's art st the encampment. In one instance a cop threw a metal chair at a protester. ALL OUT TO THE SUPPORTER RALLY AT 970 E 58th STREET NOW
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"Our love for justice must outweigh our fear of the enemy." Thank you so much @marclamonthill for your unequivocal support for Palestine and your inspiring words tonight ❤ #IStandWithMLH
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So please DOCUMENT. DOCUMENT. DOCUMENT everything: - any cuts, bruises, injuries, etc - take pictures of the progression of these injuries - keep proof of any hospital visits and any short term/ long term side effects
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Wait this is insane - I'm not sure if this is a new feature on IG (never seen it before) but they are defaulting to "limit" political content and you have to go into the settings to change it
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⚠️ Happening NOW: SJP Loyola chanting out Senator @TammyDuckworth on campus to demand she CALLS FOR A CEASEFIRE
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***~~~ please do not post any videos that show protestors touching cops in any way ~~~~~****
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Any call for a ceasefire needs to immediately be coupled with an end to the settler colonization of Palestine. Palestinians everywhere are calling for this and only saying ceasefire is *not* enough.
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With @sjpchi outside of Boeing HQ in Chicago demanding an end to the $735 million arms deal to israel 📣📣
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My new day job includes fact checking U.S. media. We were 25,000-30,000 strong today ‼️
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Day 12 at DePaul Liberation Zone 🇵🇸 💙
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My 3 yr old niece calls protests "free free falastin" and will ask "did you go to the free free falastin" 😭
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🇵🇸 Yesterday, at union station Chicago says: End the Siege on Gaza and Ceasefire Now ❕️
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There will be teams of litigators ready to sue all these damn cities and all those responsible for assaulting, tear gassing, and brutalizing our people - all these officers and those in command will not continue without consequences
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Completely ashamed to be an alumni of @DePaulU . Raiding and brutalizing students to the point a hijab was ripped off is not exemplary of the Vincention values you claim to hold.
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Palestinians will directly suffer from the annexation of the West Bank, as it will lead to massive expropriation of Palestinian land and the immediate expulsion of Palestinian individuals, families, and entire communities from their homes! Join us in demanding #NoToAnnexation
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First time I saw this mural in Pilsen I got emotional, we will be Free soon 🖤
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This kind man joined our protest to say Free Palestine and brought all the protestors food
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"yelling at Biden is nothing. It didn’t take courage—it just took anger. we should all be really, really angry. In 50 years when our world collectively remembers this moment, I will be comfortable in where I stood. Will you?" piece by Danaka who disrupted #GenocideJoe yesterday
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Thank you everyone for your kind words. I don’t consider myself courageous- just incredibly angry. All the courage is in Gaza. I explained myself in @commondreams “Disrupting Biden for Gaza Didn’t Take Courage”
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A symbol of Resistance 🇵🇸 #TweetYourThobe #NewProfilePic
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The average human being is exposed to 4000+ ads a day and JB Pritzker appears in all of them
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Yeah, they had to do an emergency c-section cuz it got tangled with my umbilical cord
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Are hijabis born with a hijab ?????
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Some of yall were raised to say "what" instead of "na3am" and it shows.
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To Palestinians that are feeling angry, sad, and frustrated during these times, you are not alone. Come out tomorrow, It is just as important for us to resist here as it is in Falasteen
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📢 Chicago, join @sjpchi and many others THIS Saturday to condemn zionist violence in Al-Quds and stand with the people of #sheikhjarah . FB link: . See you there & please share widely!
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The violence of israeli settlers in the west bank is growing to new levels. These pictures are from a settler raid in Turmusaya from earlier today. The text on the house reads, "Revenge death to Arabs"
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📍Muslims at MAS Convention | | | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 📍Attending a lecture | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ | | | | | 📍 Chilling downtown #MASCON2018
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"today has been particularly hard" - palestinians each and every day for the past 60 days
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A successful 7 hour shut-down of woodward manufacturing today in Niles, IL by Palestinians, Arabs and allies. No business as usual when companies in our backyard are aiding a genocide.
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"Liberation is not a matter of if - but a matter of when" and it is near. Chicago yesterday 🇵🇸🖤
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It's so insanely wild that zionist professors can literalllyy post the most genocidal shit and no one bats an eye, but when another prof LIKES "free palestine" there goes their entire career in academia
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Die-in in front of @Boeing HQ in Chicago to demonstrate exactly what their deadly machinery is used for. @sjpchi #BlockTheBombs #BootBoeing
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My 7 years of college + grad school literally summed up in a picture
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Person: Wait so when do you finish school??? DePaul students:
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there really are no words left
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It’s about life or death now I did what I could We are surrounded by the Israeli tanks
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I told a person to visit Bridgeview when they're in Chicago and they showed me this and asked "is this how it looks" 😭😭😭
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Me writing an email to professors: *checks it over 283 times for errors, sends to 3 friends for peer review, ensures correct spelling of professor’s name, anxiety levels high* Professor writing me back: hEllo, sounds good rifqah! C u in class. Sent from iPhone
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MSA chats be like: "Has anyone ever taken ____" "What time's jumuah?" "ALLAHHH" "Event tomorrow!" "Did anyone see my _____"
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Follow @sjpchi because this is certainly one of many protests to come 🇵🇸 #SaveSheikhJarrah
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Seen at Chicago rally/ car caravan today 🤣🇵🇸 #NoToAnnexation
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📢 Chicago, join @sjpchi and many others THIS Saturday to condemn zionist violence in Al-Quds and stand with the people of #sheikhjarah . FB link: . See you there & please share widely!
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Parents: Of course you don't have time to help me, but you had time on May 25, 2011 to go hang out with your friends!!!
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my law school classmates watching my stories since Oct 7th: 👁👄👁
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Dye it green for Falasteen, Palestine protest in Chicago today
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