Brown University Corporation members exit a corporation meeting from the back door to evade hunger strikers and hundreds of supporters who surrounded the building calling for divestment from the genocide in Gaza
they have been on a hunger strike for a WEEK now, and they have been protesting the entire time. every single one of them is wearing a high quality mask! these @BrownDivest students are so incredibly brave! i believe i read 200 other students pledged to start hunger strikes today
At least 215 students have committed to a solidarity fast starting this morning, spanning two days of Brown Corporation meetings. This action continues days of student presence in and around the Campus Center. Make the commitment at https://t.co/rcsVmPVZSY
Earlier today, Hunger Strikers led protestors across the Main Green to deliver the 50-page long expanded edition of the 2020 ACCRIP report recommending divestment to Brown admin (Link in bio)
BREAKING | President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 has declined to meet the demands of 19 student protestors who began a hunger strike earlier today. They demanded that the Corporation consider a divestment proposal in their meetings.
https://t.co/V2Q66EpPT9
Hunger Strike Day 3 and our strikers are going strong. Yesterday hundreds of students, staff, faculty & community members came to support our strike. Despite this support and the worsening siege & manufactured famine of Palestinians, Pres. Paxson has refused to meet our demands
BREAKING: 19 students announced an indefinite hunger strike for a divestment proposal ahead of the Brown Corporation's February meeting. The announcement came at a Main Green rally attended by hundreds.
https://t.co/Xu85llbpk8
Students at Brown University in the US state of Rhode Island have begun a hunger strike, demanding that the university divest from companies profiting from the Gaza genocide.
The group, which is made up of Jewish and Palestinian students, plans to introduce a divestment resolution at the next meeting held by the university's governing body, and is calling on the administration to promote an immediate and permanent ceasefire.
A coalition of students at Brown University in Rhode Island have embarked on a hunger strike demanding that the university divest from companies profiting from the ongoing genocide in Gaza
https://t.co/cJyzbeJN1a
19 Brown U students will refuse food until their demands for Brown to end its complicity in the genocide in Gaza are met. They will remain on strike until the Brown Corporation commits to conducting a vote on a divestment resolution during the February 8 & 9 Corporation meeting.