The Daily Emerald is providing live coverage of the University of Oregon’s pro-Palestine encampment, which began on April 29 at 7 a.m. All of our coverage of the encampment can be found here.
Below is the Emerald’s coverage of May 20, the 22nd day of the encampment. Read on for live updates.

Updated 6:17 p.m. 

Surveillance cameras have been added atop Johnson and Fenton Halls following the encampment’s move on May 16.

The status of negotiations between the university and encampment leaders remains unclear. 

The university indicated on their website that negotiations were held on May 17 and May 19, however there were no encampment media liaisons present to comment on the meetings.  
Updated 4:35 p.m.
Roughly 250 demonstrators are gathered now in Lillis Hall, climbing the stairs and draping Palestinian flags and banners with messages including “divest + disclose” and “no money for genocide, end the occupation” around the main floor. 
On the way to Lillis, protesters chanted slogans including “UOPD, KKK, IDF, they’re all the same,” in apparent reference to the University of Oregon Police Department, the Israeli Defense Forces and the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan is a white supremacist hate group and terrorist organization.
The protesters are not attempting to occupy the building. 
Updated 4:18 p.m.
Protesters marched through Tykeson Hall and are now gathered in the Erb Memorial Union, chanting slogans like “free, free Palestine” and “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
Individuals who were chained to the pillars outside of Johnson Hall are now chained to each other, as opposed to the building.
Updated 3:59 p.m.
Roughly 150 demonstrators have gathered for a rally on the steps of Johnson Hall,  in support of five students who have been chained to the pillars outside of the building since Thursday.
Student demonstrators unchained from the building moments ago after indicating the university had not met with them. “Since we have been locked up, over 400 Palestinians have been murdered,” a demonstrator said. “Any faith we had in the administration to listen to us in response to our actions has been misplaced.”
Demonstrators are preparing to march through Tykeson Hall in protest of the “Tykeson family.” Amy Tykeson is a member of the UO Board of Trustees.
“We do not want to stand down, we do not want to unchain,” a demonstrator said. “But do not mistake. We are not giving up.”
Updated 12:43 p.m.
The university’s official timeline of negotiations with student protesters indicates that university administrators, as well as some faculty, met with demonstrators on May 17 and 19. On May 17, “University Senate and UO Administration agreed to explore an additional process of dialogue,” the timeline reads.
The substance and length of these meetings is unclear. The Daily Emerald has reached out to representatives of the university and the encampment for comment. 
Updated 10:20 a.m.

It’s day 22 of the pro-Palestine encampment on the University of Oregon campus. As the encampment enters its fourth week, students remain chained and connected to pillars in front of Johnson Hall, the UO administration building. Protesters are currently holding a meeting at the foot of the steps outside Johnson. 
Johnson Hall remains locked with only limited access to those with keycards. Visitors are currently opting to enter the building by calling personnel to unlock doors and grant access through side entrances. 
Demonstrators will hold a rally at 3:30 p.m. today at “Alareer Hall,” which they have renamed from Johnson Hall after Refaat Alareer, a Palestinian writer and poet killed in Gaza in December 2023. 
The rally aims to “show up for Palestine” and “show up for students in chains.” Five students have been chained to the pillars outside of Johnson since Thursday. A post from the encampment said that the university “couldn’t care enough to even speak their students [sic] who are putting their bodies and lives on the line.”
The Emerald has reached out to the university for comment.

Valentine, a media liaison for the encampment, said that demonstrators have been frequently checking in with the chained students.

“We basically have a group of support people who make sure they get what they need and make sure that their basic needs are met,” Valentine said. “They have been sleeping just behind the pillars.”

Protesting students are playing “Democracy Now,” an independent news source on a loudspeaker as they prepare for the rally later today. 

“We feel like being chained up has built strength and power for us and every day we are getting closer to winning our demands. We are still going without stopping anytime soon,” Valentine said. 

Valentine declined to state what the plans for the encampment would be after the end of spring term.

Daily Emerald reporters are on scene and will continue to provide live updates throughout the day.