encampment

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Five men and two women were arrested on Sunday outside the main gate of Lakenheath airbase during a peace encampment against the Iran war, Suffolk Police said.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

Gil hustled to the back of the store, opened the back door to the encampment, and called out to the entire population.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

That same month, Legal Aid scored another victory when a federal judge found that the city violated homeless people’s constitutional rights by seizing and destroying their property during encampment cleanups.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

The CHP had planned to set up a solidarity encampment outside the courthouse.

From Barron's • Mar. 9, 2026

Down the slope from our encampment lay Lake Champlain, where I vowed I should learn to swim before we finished our business with the planet Venus and returned to the city.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson