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Sacramento State’s updated policy states that it “does not have any direct investments in these areas” right now but, in accordance with students’ demands, its investment portfolios will “remain free of such direct investments.”
Students: We're protesting until our school stops investing in stuff that's bad!
University: Uh, we already don't.
Students: We did it! We freed Palestine!
I don't think the students though that divesting would save all the Palestinians. I mean, I am sure one person did, but that is what happens when you have a large group of people. I think they just wanted to apply pressure against Israel where they could.
I think it is based and probably the most effective thing they could do to stop the genocide.
I mean, you jest, but a lot of the time, all you can do in this world is limit your own contribution to the problem
That and vote to regulate wrongdoings. It sounds so obvious and yet somehow we're losing that battle.
You attempt a lazy joke here because it seems you need attention, but policy like this matters, especially when things get "quiet" again after the spotlight fades. Also, in addition to divestment, the university also met their demand to appoint “a faculty member from Faculty for Justice in Palestine to sit on the finance committee, ensuring that investments remain ethical every year.”
They did win. They know now that University is morally right and doesn't support a genocide.
Wow, I guess listening to the protesters instead of calling cops on them is crazy 🙄
Yeah that’s… that’s the joke
Ok listen, I'm all in favor of Israel knocking it the f*ck off and students protesting, but this article is written with a very specific skew.
Last week, Columbia University summoned an army of heavily armed, riot gear-clad police officers to attack its own students for peacefully protesting Israel’s war on Gaza and the university’s financial ties to Israel.
Couple of notes here.
- It has evolved to a non peaceful protest. Some neo-nazi assholes were physically engaging with Jewish students. That's not cool.
- A good number of nom-students showed up and we're the ones causing the problems.
- Columbia called the local police to disperse a situation that was getting unsafe fast, because a university isn't really qualified to do that. Which is the right call IMO. It's the NYPD that choose riot gear.
Should it have been handled differently? Yes. Was the school dumb? Yes. We really don't need this slanted BS news to see that.
This is some of the quotes from a Newsweek article:
One video posted on X, formerly Twitter, showed a masked protester outside the university's gates appearing to chant: "Go back to Poland!"
Another video showed a man telling Jewish students outside the campus gates that "the 7th of October is going to be every day for you."
Devolved into non peaceful protests?
You got a source there, buddy?
I live nearby, I walked by.
I think (I don't know for sure) that the students were peaceful, it looks like it got co-opted by a few loud neo-nazis who were being assholes.
My thing is the original article was pretty off.
Then maybe arrest the Nazis instead of beating the actual protesters and shutting down the protest? Interesting that the absolute thinnest veil of an excuse is enough for you to be ok with police brutalizing innocent people who just happen to be exercising their right to protest.