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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GO REAGAN ON THEM
Well, well, well, that should be 300 FORMER students and now 300 new seats open for more loyal Americans next semester.
Agreed.
I'm assuming a grad student with some worthless in real life degree path.
I love their rules, one of which is don't speak with the press unless given training and permission. Permission from who? I guess they saw the clip of one of the protesters whoi was asked some basic questions about the reasons for the protest, didn't know and the person they asked had no idea as well.
Yep. I bet if you asked them, at last 50% would have no idea of the specifics. Useful idiots told/paid to camp out by someone with deep pockets.
IMHO - let them camp. Let their own woke administrators fight it out with them. We should enjoy seeing the left fight each other.
If I were a cop, I would refuse to save these woke ######s from themselves.
Jew hating Muzzie Terrorist. The FIB kids have been chasing the wrong “domestic terrorists”. We were on their side before they azhos started coming after us for Obeye and Bidenskyyyyyyyy during the RATs’ bloody mythical Battle on Capitol Hill.
They must be so proud that they're nothing more than an insect in the tread of the Democrat machine.
Water cannons
These people are INSANE!
Here’s a stumper. How could a country be in favor of genocide against Muslims if it allowed a Muslim on the Israeli Supreme Court?
Khaled Kabub.
Israel previously had Abdel Rahman Zuabi on the court in 1999.
Israel has had over 100 Arabs sitting in the governing Knesset (like Congress, making laws) beginning in 1949.
606 Arab Muslims joined the IDF in 2020. That’s up from 489 in 2019 and 436 in 2018.
An exceedingly poor method of genocide./S
No better place for a Muslim Arab to live in the Middle East than Israel.
I hope they will go from being UConn Students to being You Cons soon.
“Water cannons”
And bulldozers. Render those new tents and camp potties completely unusable for the next incoherent encampment.
Comments BUMP
Getting on the virtue signaling campus protest bandwagon.
Yep
11,700+ students are NOT protesting...give them congratulations for being students.
Cancel Graduations and charge students huge shipping and handling fees to get their diplomas.
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