#Brown University

[soon-palestine]

Brown University is doing everything they can to make sure the press doesn’t cover the fact that 19 of their students are on hunger strike calling for Brown to divest from weapons manufacturers. Let’s make sure the story gets out:

[sayruq]

[memys-art-stuff]

It is vital that we keep the efforts of so many students across the United States from going to waste. We need to keep the momentum going and ensure that news of the cruelty happening to the people of Palestine is not ignored or suppressed.

Despite what many news outlets may have you believe, what is happening in our world is not minor in the slightest. It is a genocide that is happening before our eyes, day after day. Do not forget the administrative responses these colleges have given to the act of bringing attention this inhumanity. This is history happening now, and these colleges are on the wrong side of it.

These students are calling to divest college funds from Israel. Do not let the media warp their efforts and paint them as an antisemitic mob. Do not let those opposing these demonstrations hide behind claims of antisemitism to justify their actions. This is about stopping human suffering, and to believe anything different is willful ignorance.

[alanshemper]

20 Jewish students were arrested at Brown University for peacefully protesting by doing a sit-in to call for a ceasefire in Gaza on Wednesday, November 8.

There is a GoFundMe to help with their legal fees, which is currently struggling ⬇️

Thank you for being here in solidarity with us, we feel you and appreciate your support. We encourage you match the donation you gave us to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF), linked below. Because legal fees are still in flux, any excess funds will be donated to PCRF.

https://www.pcrf.net

[liberalsarecool]

Brown University leadership offered sensible good faith. Organizing works!

[blackpearlblast]

The hunger strike is over, but you can still support student protestors at Brown University!

Brown University has now had a total of 61 student protestors be arrested this semester for performing peaceful sit-ins outside of University Hall to call for divestment. you can click here to send a letter in support of these 61 students, calling for their charges to be dropped, exempt them from disciplinary action, stop calling on the carceral system in response to non-violent student protest, and divest from companies that profit from palestinian genocide. here is a link to the student-run brown daily herald talking about the letter writing campaign.

[salembehindbars]

JFK Jr. Is quite literally my dream man. I have loved him since I was 5.

[sugas6thtooth]

False narratives in mass media produces a perpetual cycle of violence fueled by irrational hate.

American media outlets are so disconnected from humanity that the lies they spread hurt their own people.

As much as we support and aid those in Palestine let's not forget the Palestinians here, in America, who are also bearing the brunt of hate from irrevocable beings.

I wish for Hisham and the others attacked in this hate crime justice and healing. 🇵🇸

[eretzyisrael]

By Sophia Wotman and Sam Levine

The University temporarily suspended Brown’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine pending an external investigation into conduct violations at a pro-divestment protest held earlier this month.

University policy stipulates that suspended groups lose “all rights and privileges associated with being a recognized student group” on campus, which includes hosting events and group meetings, recruiting members and reserving spaces on campus for group activities.

“Given the severity of alleged threatening, intimidating and harassing actions during an event on campus, Brown University has initiated a review of the event and required the Brown chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine to cease all organization activities pending full review of the matter,” University Spokesperson Brian Clark told The Herald.

“The implementation of the interim measures is based on the severity of the alleged behavior and does not prejudge whether the organization violated policy,” he wrote.

On Oct. 18, pro-divestment student activists gathered on the Main Green before marching down to the Warren Alpert Medical School to protest the Brown Corporation’s recent decision not to divest from 10 companies with ties to the Israeli military.

Two days after the protest, Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey sent a community-wide email in which he described the demonstrators’ behavior as “entirely unacceptable” and warned of disciplinary consequences.

Carey cited reports that protestors were “banging on a vehicle,” “screaming profanities at individuals” and at one point using a “racial epithet directed toward a person of color.” He noted that some of these actions may have violated the University’s Code of Student Conduct, and would be “reviewed through University disciplinary processes.”

The University is investigating both student groups and individual protestors, which are subject to different disciplinary procedures. For investigations of student group conduct, administrators in the Office of Student Conduct & Community Standards can conduct interviews themselves or appoint an internal or external investigator “if deemed appropriate by the Dean of Students.”

SJP organizers were informed on Thursday that the group was temporarily suspended and that the University had initiated an external investigation.

The Brown Divest Coalition — an umbrella organization of pro-divestment activist groups that includes Students for Justice in Palestine — wrote in a statement to The Herald that “this suspension and other allegations made against SJP by the administration are a retaliatory, politically-motivated ploy to defame protestors, fracture the student movement and detract from their complicity in the extermination of the Palestinian people.”

“No amount of external investigations, increased police presence, conduct hearings or intimidating emails from Russell Carrey will quell our commitment to divestment and to the liberation of Palestine,” the statement reads.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Sebastian Murdock at HuffPost:

Northwestern University in Illinois and Brown University in Rhode Island both reached a deal with pro-Palestine protesters this week to end their occupation of campus grounds.

College and universities across the U.S. have been flooded with student demonstrations in the past several weeks against Israel’s attacks on Gaza, in some cases pressing their schools to divest from companies linked to Israel. Many of the demonstrators, including those at Columbia University, have set up encampments on campus that have been met with police force, arrests and school suspensions. On Monday, Northwestern officials appeared to be the first to reach a deal with antiwar demonstrators, following five days of protests and encampments on Deering Meadow, the Daily Northwestern reported. As part of a bargain made by NU and the Northwestern Divestment Coalition, a group helping to organize the protests and encampment, the university agreed to permit protests and pro-Palestine gatherings through the final day of spring classes on June 1. The school has also agreed to disclose its investments in businesses with Israeli ties. In exchange, the NDC has agreed to leave just one aid tent on the lawn. University officials also stressed that students shouldn’t be punished for demonstrating by non-campus actors like employers.

[...] On Tuesday, another deal was reached between Brown University and the Brown Divest Coalition, a similar pro-Palestine group. Protesters involved with the coalition agreed to remove all tents and end the encampment on campus in exchange for a promise from the university to hold a board vote in October on whether or not to divest from Israel-linked companies. Brown also agreed to invite five students chosen by the coalition for a meeting next month with school administrators to again discuss a 2020 proposal recommending divestments from companies linked to Israel. BU also said students and faculty who have engaged in demonstrations won’t be punished by the school. “No member of the Brown community ― including faculty, staff, graduate students, undergraduate students, or alumni ― found to have been involved in the encampment or related activity will face retaliation from the University, including termination of employment or reduction in salary,” the agreement from the university said.

This is how universities should properly respond to the campus protests against the Gaza Genocide: Brown University and Northwestern University reached deals this week to end their occupation of campus grounds with mutual cooperation.

[slaras-world]

Wish me that I could go in any of these favorite colleges 🥰

[soon-palestine]

The largest and longest hunger strike for Palestine since the start of Israel's assault on Gaza. For the past 8 days over 650 Brown U students, faculty, staff and community members have engaged in teach ins, film screenings, and protest leading up to the Brown Corporation meeting

[news4dzhozhar]

[bulllfinch]

Lund University, Sweden, 2023

[its-zaina]

“From Columbia to Brown,

we will not let Gaza down“🇵🇸.

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