UBC Divest Hunger Strike for Palestine

UBC Divest | March 17

Some students at UBC have gone on hunger strike in an attempt to get the university’s administration to make good on past promises as well as to “divest from the over $110 million it has invested in weapons manufacturers and corporations that sustain Apartheid Israel’s ongoing occupation, annexation, and genocide in Occupied Palestine, Lebanon and Syria.”

This post from the students explains why they’ve made this decision and what they hope to achieve. In other news from the campus, the student body recently voted to endorse a two-day student strike seeking the same goal as the hunger strike. (4-minute read)

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