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We call on our institution, Brown University, to divest from companies profiting from the genocide in Gaza. #JOINTHEENCAMPMENT
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VICTORY!! BROWN COMMITS TO DIVESTMENT VOTE! Brown administration has conceded to students’ demand that the Corporation vote on divestment after years of tireless pressure from the student body, 61 student arrests, an eight day hunger strike and seven days of encampment
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BROWN STUDENTS HAVE BEGUN A GAZA SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT. Join the movement spreading across college campuses calling for university divestment from the genocide in Gaza. All eyes on Palestine. 🇵🇸
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GOOD MORNING❤️🇵🇸 Brown has tried arrests, disciplinary action and restrictive policies to intimidate student protest. But we’re still here. We refuse to allow our university to be complicit in genocide. WE WILL NOT BE SWAYED.
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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.
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This is the first time in the history of pro-Palestine divestment organizing at Brown that the Corporation will hear a divestment resolution in May and conduct a binding vote in October
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This achievement would not have been possible without the hard work of university encampments across the country. We will continue to pressure Brown to ensure we divest in October and support encampments across the country.
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We stand with student protestors as they face university oppression and police brutality, and the people of Palestine as they continue to withstand the Israeli occupation. This victory is not an end to our work, but rather fuel for it.
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Today marks a week of the Brown hunger strike for Palestine. As the Brown Corporation begins meeting and the death toll in Gaza reaches 28,000, hundreds of students participated in a die-out on the main green to bring campus attention to the ongoing genocide that Brown invests in
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UPDATE: Brown Administration has informed us that we can no longer post strikers’ daily schedule on social media. We ask that students continue to exercise their right to be in their own campus center and spend time with our strikers.
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19 Brown U students will hunger strike until these demands are met.
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The encampers’ demands: divest now and drop the charges. Hear from Joe about why all of these students are demanding an end to institutional complicity in genocide and an end to student repression on campus.
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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
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Kaliko shares why they are hunger striking for Palestine:
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Palestinian student Nour shares why she is Hunger Striking for Palestine and why Brown must divest NOW.
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Incredibly grateful to everyone who showed up yesterday as 19 students announced that they will be hunger striking until their demands are met.
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Today, hunger strikers and hundreds of supporting students confronted Corporation members, face-to-face, despite the Corporation’s attempts to evade protestors by changing meeting entrances and locations.
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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
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Footage from the Gaza Solidarity Encampment🇵🇸 We condemn Brown's use of repressive tactics to prevent peaceful student protest. We won't be deterred by their intimidation tactics of random ID sweeps and threatening disciplinary action. Come to the main green now to support‼️
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Everyone in support of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment's cause is welcome to join us on the Main Green.
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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
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The 41 students holding their arrest documents after being arrested in University Hall. The bookings took place inside, out of sight of the hundreds standing in solidarity outside.
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CAMPAIGN WIN‼️The Brown University Community Council voted to pass 2 resolutions: one allowing students to make the case for divestment before the Brown Corporation meeting in May and one recommending that the University drop all charges against the BDC 41🇵🇸🇵🇸
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This morning, as President Paxson walked to her office past our encampment, we made it clear that we stand together in our calls for divestment as the genocide in Gaza continues. We shall not be moved‼️Divest now. Drop the charges. 🇵🇸🇵🇸
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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)
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We CANNOT let this be used to pacify us. Long live the student revolution.
READ THREAD
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We have passed day 203 of genocide and BROWN REMAINS INVESTED.
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Right now, on the 8th day of the Hunger Strike for Palestine, the corporation has failed to meet our demands, so students are gathered in song to make sure our voices are heard. DIVEST NOW.
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Hunger Strike Day 4 and our demands have still not met. This is the largest hunger strike in Brown’s history yet the administration continues to refuse to hear our strikers. Come to the Main Green to hear from our strikers and show your support.
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We want President Christina Paxson to know: we have community on our side! Celebrating the BUCC win!
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Dabke in the Gaza solidarity encampment! Viva viva Palestina🇵🇸❤️🔥 Join us again at 9am tomorrow!
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Message from the encampment: DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINIAN LIBERATION🇵🇸🇵🇸
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We are 41 Brown students sitting in University Hall and we will not leave until President Paxson and the Brown Corporation listen to our demands.
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Rally on the Main Green tomorrow at 12pm! Admin rejected Hunger Strikers’ demands, claiming the 2020 ACCRIP report was insufficient to bring to the Brown Corp meeting. We expanded the report into a 50-page document—see the hunger strikers present this report to admin! Link in bio
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COME TO THE ART BUILD ON THE MAIN GREEN NOW🇵🇸🇵🇸🎨
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Support Brown's Gaza solidarity encampment!
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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
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HAPPENING NOW: DPS has begun taking IDs of all students encamping and their “accomplices” and threatening disciplinary action. This is not a surprise. This is intimidation. We are stronger together. COME JOIN THE FIGHT AND ADD YOUR ID.❤️🔥🇵🇸❤️
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The Brown Divest Coalition 41 continue to plead not guilty to Brown’s criminal violation charges. We will not allow Brown's attempts to intimidate the campus community deflect attention away from our calls for divestment from companies facilitating Israeli occupation of Palestine
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The 41 Brown students arrested in the December sit-in received a not-guilty filing from the Providence judiciary on May 14. They will not be charged, despite Brown’s refusal to drop the trespassing charges against them.
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🇵🇸❤️🔥Join the encampment in solidarity with Gaza as we call for divestment!🇵🇸❤️🔥
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Today we heard from former Rhode Island state senator, Cynthia Mendes, who led Brown’s Gaza solidarity encampment and supporters in a protest song, which was recently sung by a student at Emory University who was brutally arrested for partaking in the encampment.
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Our movement today exists only at the tip of a long history of student resistance to militarism at Brown. From Vietnam to Palestine, may we act against imperialist violence and liberate all oppressed peoples🇵🇸🇵🇸
#OTD
April 23, 1967, film crews from
@NBC10
recorded a press conference given by Martin Luther King at
@BrownUniversity
in Providence. King spoke out against the Vietnam War, & made a call to abolish the draft & "disarm the world." Here's the footage from
@RIHistory
archives.
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Last night at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, students joined for a night of celebration to observe the third night of Passover. Drawing on a rich Freedom Seder tradition, we performed ritual, read poetry, discussed the meaning of collective liberation, sang, and broke matzah✡️🇵🇸
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Update: Admin has threatened to hold the 41 students arrested in December accountable for the ongoing encampment. Posts made about the encampment are made solely by and on behalf of those encamping, and don’t reflect the opinions/actions of students arrested in previous actions.
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BREAKING: Providence Police are inside University Hall booking the 41 students peacefully sitting in for Brown’s divestment from the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Hundreds gathered outside. Follow along for updates 🧵
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Brown University Continuing to Pursue Charges Against 41 Students Arrested for Peaceful Sit-in for Divestment
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Ariela shares her family’s story and how one group’s suffering does not justify another’s, and that Brown MUST heed our demands. “There is no neutrality, there is only complicity or justice.”
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This is what the front of the building looked like:
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IMPORTANT RALLY TODAY AT 12!! We keep us safe. This movement requires a strong community and people power to succeed. We are asking all Brown and broader community members who wish to support the encampment to attend our rally at 12pm tomorrow!
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CURRENTLY OCCUPYING THE BROWN CORPORATION ROOM
We are Brown Divest Coalition and we call on our institution to divest from companies profiting from the genocide in Gaza.
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🚨 All 41 students have been released! Booked, fingerprinted, and given court dates, but released from University Hall back to our community ❤️
BREAKING: Providence Police are inside University Hall booking the 41 students peacefully sitting in for Brown’s divestment from the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Hundreds gathered outside. Follow along for updates 🧵
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Conversations about the encampment MUST acknowledge the fact that 35,000 Palestinians have been murdered and ALL universities in Gaza have been destroyed. When you show up for the encampment, show up in solidarity with the people of Gaza, not just your classmates.
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Brown University students occupying University Hall wearing “Divest for Hisham.” Hisham Awartani is a Palestinian student at Brown who was shot last month. This hate crime represents the actualization of violence that Palestinian students voiced to President Paxson weeks ago
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Despite its praise in the media as ‘peaceful’ and ‘receptive’ to our encampment, Brown is no stranger to the use of police force against its students. Brown arrested 61 students in the span of one month for calling for divestment, 41 of whom are still facing criminal charges
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The Corporation is ACTIVELY EVADING hunger strikers by taking back entrances and moving meeting locations to avoid any discussion of divestment from Israel. They are choosing to let their own students starve rather than listen to our demands.
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Friends and supporters waited for 5 hours in the cold to sing for and embrace their co-strugglers who sat in.
#DivestforHisham
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Students sitting in the Brown Unicersity Corporation room with a banner: “If Palestinians had to hold vigils every time our people were massacred, we would be bankrupt from buying candles. There is no respite for us” words of Hisham Awartani, a Brown junior shot last month
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Without the steadfastness of our comrades at Cal Poly Humboldt, CCNY, Columbia, UCLA, UNM, UT Austin, and many other universities, we would have never been able to force the Brown administration into an unprecedented vote for divestment from the Zionist war machine.
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Yesterday 41 Brown Students occupied University Hall to demand divestment from companies facilitating genocide in Gaza, in light of the shooting of Palestinian classmate Hisham Awartani. They were arrested within the building that night, out of sight of cameras and outside eyes
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How can Brown ever be the ‘civil’ and ‘progressive’ institution the media portrays it as when it profits off the indiscriminate murder of over 12,000 children? When Safariland, a company it refuses to divest from, produces the very tear gas being used on campus and in Palestine?
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THANK YOU to our brave and powerful students, our immense support teams, and the HUNDREDS of Brown students who sang and chanted in the cold for hours while our friends were being released.
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We watched as cops flooded a crowd with tear gas at USF, and as state troopers terrorized protestors with pepper spray at UT Austin.
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Confrontational, direct action poses an existential threat to the fascist bedrock of the university; President Paxson’s concession demonstrates fear, not ‘good faith.’
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We continue to stand in solidarity with fellow dissenters as smokescreens between police station and administrative office rise. We cannot celebrate our win within these hostile institutions that ensure their complicity in genocide by maiming and arresting students and faculty
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Students are being escorted out of University Hall one by one– booked, fingerprinted, and with court dates, but released to the campus community.
About 10 are out so far.
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Our co-strugglers across the country are facing the full lethal force of the police-state before our very eyes. We watched as the NYPD donned full riot gear, descended in hundreds on student protestors, and invaded Hind’s Hall through a bomb-squad grade mega-truck.
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We will not let our agreement be used to pacify this movement. Rather, we will use it to fuel us further. With the strength of our collective organizing power laid bare, this deal is far from the end. It is a victory only in the language of the bureaucracy.
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From Ferguson to Harlem to Gaza, the struggle against carcerality and the struggle for Palestinian liberation are inextricable.
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ALL STUDENTS WERE ARRESTED INSIDE UNIVERSITY HALL AND RELEASED OUTSIDE
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Radical change outside of the institution’s vernacular is requisite for true liberation. We refuse to allow this moment to be co-opted as an exemplar of ‘respectable’ student protest or ‘benevolent’ university diplomacy.
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