The administration doesn't speak for the student movement that has won this divestment.
Check it out ::
http://www.hsjp.org/voices-of-divestment/
http://voicesofdivestment.wordpress.com/
Voices of Hampshire, Voices of Divestment The Administration at Hampshire College has issued a statement distancing itself from the movement to divest from the Israeli Occupation of Palestine, organized and led on this campus by Students for Justice in Palestine. They claim that this move to divest has nothing to do with the Occupation of Palestine, and perhaps for them, it does not. However, for the more than 800 students, staff, faculty, alumni and parents who have signed SJP's call for divestment, it has everything to do with our collective desire to see the end of the Occupation and the restoration of justice to the Palestinian people. For us who are at the heart and forefront of this movement, we have divested specifically because of Israel's human rights violations and war crimes. This is our movement, this is our divestment. We have taken a stand against occupation, by forcing the Administration to take our money out of the offending corporations. Regardless of whether or not they were happy to do so, regardless of whether or not they side with our stance on the Occupation.
Voices of Hampshire, Voices of Divestment
The Administration at Hampshire College has issued a statement distancing itself from the movement to divest from the Israeli Occupation of Palestine, organized and led on this campus by Students for Justice in Palestine.
They claim that this move to divest has nothing to do with the Occupation of Palestine, and perhaps for them, it does not.
However, for the more than 800 students, staff, faculty, alumni and parents who have signed SJP's call for divestment, it has everything to do with our collective desire to see the end of the Occupation and the restoration of justice to the Palestinian people.
For us who are at the heart and forefront of this movement, we have divested specifically because of Israel's human rights violations and war crimes. This is our movement, this is our divestment. We have taken a stand against occupation, by forcing the Administration to take our money out of the offending corporations. Regardless of whether or not they were happy to do so, regardless of whether or not they side with our stance on the Occupation.
Remembering the Vietnam war protests, it still take grassroot individuals to do justice seeking. Administrations have never been a component of civil and human rights activity.
Thanks for drawing attention to this aspect of the divestment action.
