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Tag: Divest
Students File Challenge to Anti-Israel Party’s CSG Election Victory
The lawsuit charges SHUT IT DOWN with an unprecedented number of Elections Code violations.
BREAKING: Campaign Vowing to Shut Down Student Government Till U-M Divests from Israel Projected to Sweep Presidency, Half of Assembly Seats
The SHUT IT DOWN party platform says, “Every dollar coming out of this university is blood money.”
Proposed U-M Policy Defines Consequences for Disruptive Protests
The draft policy comes after pro-Palestinian activists stopped the Annual Honors Convocation ceremony.
Professor Debunks Claim Fossil Fuels Damage Planet
With “divest” movements spreading across the country and gaining momentum at U-M, Dr. Pierre Desrochers visited the University to present an alternative look at fossil fuels. There’s more trees and animals on the planet today than ever before thanks to fossil fuels, a professor told a room full of University of Michigan students Wednesday. Many assign […]
University of Michigan: Do Not Divest from Fossil Fuels
The Michigan Daily released an op-ed last week stating their support of the Divest and Invest Campaign’s agenda for the University to divest from fossil fuels. Originally, I was going to pick this op-ed apart line by line, but upon actually reading it I discovered that it was full of vacuous platitudes that aren’t worth […]
SAFE Unveils #UMMolest
Last night, the BDS resolution proposed by Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE) failed to pass Central Student Government for the second year in a row. The proposal petitioned the University to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) companies involved in commercial affairs with Israel. After a long-fought #UMDivest campaign that resulted in 25 […]