Posted on 04/25/2024 9:03:09 PM PDT by matt04
Up to 300 UConn students launched a Gaza Solidarity Encampment Thursday evening to protest UConn’s “complicity in the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and its shameful contributions to militarism around the world,” according to a release from the UConn Divest coalition.
The students are also advocating for a liberated Palestine. The UConn Divest coalition launched the encampment, bringing together student organizations and individuals who are committed to fighting for a free Palestine and to ending the university’s support for occupation and genocide, the coalition said.
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These include disclosure and divestment from occupation and genocide. The students want the university to disclose institutional expenditures, including direct and indirect investments of the school's endowment, stocks, bonds, and hedge funds. The students are also calling for divesting the endowment from defense contractors RTX, Lockheed Martin, and General Dynamics, and companies based in Israel.
Additionally, the students demand that UConn ban military companies from recruiting on campus, and reject charitable donations, research and scholarship grants, and contracts with weapons manufacturers and military contractors.
The protestors are also calling for the university to rename facilities dedicated to military contractors and abolish days of recognition and recruitment for military contractors, as well as remove Alumni Trustee Bryan Pollard, associate general counsel for RTX, from the Board of Trustees “for gross conflicts of interest.”
Student protestors are demanding that UConn sever ties to the “settler-colonial state of Israel” by refusing new contracts and research grants from all companies and entries which “actively participate in the colonization and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.”
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Fifty years ago UCONN allowed stupid protests like this in the name of diversity and inclusion. Things have not changed. I refuse to donate to my alma marta.
Perhaps UConn out to start a Gaza study abroad program and they can all learn firsthand of that which they profess to support!
Don’t pack those short-shorts ladies! And for the LGBTQ++IA crowd, you may want to keep that detail on the low down during your enrichment journey....
50 percent of them couldn’t find Gaza on a map
How dare you suggest they/them go back in the closet and suppress xirs true identity, you cis white make bigot! I say tell they/them to fly the brightest gay flag, wear related tshirts, short shorts, etc. and shout their pride from the roof tops! What could possibly go wrong, Palestine is much more inclusive than eeeeeeevil Americakkka, right?
Since colleges basically shut down next month, where ae they going to head next?
I wear my Cis Gender Male Oppressor badge proudly. Sadly, far too many of our youth are in dire need of a bit of tough-love male oppression.
Good question. Classes are usually done early May, finals shortly after that, and everyone gone by the middle of the month. Will they try to stay, or set up their camp somewhere else?
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