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@UCDivest

A coalition of orgs demanding the end to UC profit from war

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On Wednesday May 18 @UCDivest Coalition will give public comment at the annual UC Regents’ meeting + rally outside the @luskinhotella . We call for the complete divestment of UC funds from weapons manufacturing. 🧵 Thread 🧵 on how decades of work make total divestment possible.
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The University of California puts millions of its students’ and staff’s money in the BIGGEST investor in weapons and guns manufacturing in the world. In 2020, UC Divest coalition formed to oppose the UC Regents’ heinous investment divestments. This is how we met the Regents.
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The Daily Bruin’s coverage of our rally: xitter.gq/dailybruin/status/1527…
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@dailybruin19 May 2022
Protesters from University of California Divest rallied outside the UC Board of Regents meeting Tuesday to urge the UC to divest from companies involved with weapons manufacturing. dailybruin.com/2022/05/18/pr…
Protesters outside UC Regents meeting call for weapons manufacturer divestment - Daily Bruin

Protesters outside UC Regents meeting call for weapons manufacturer divestment - Daily Bruin

This post was updated May 19 at 1:51 p.m. A University of California coalition rallied outside the UC Board of Regents meeting Tuesday to call for divestment from companies involved with weapons...

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Every day complete divestment from war and occupation gets closer. The UC has NO REASON to profit from the unethical, unsustainable business of warfare. Let’s hold them accountable. UC-affiliated? Sign up to join the mvmt in our linktree. Orgs, DM us to find ways to join.
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If interested in giving public comment at the UC Regents board meeting tomorrow morning, follow these instructions today by 5PM:
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Reminder that UCLA's student government passed a resolution in 2021 to divest from war. THE STUDENT BODY WANTS DIVESTMENT. Open thread. 🧵
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The UC Regents rejected divestment in 1978, but student referenda at 5 UC’s including UCLA supported SA divestment, just as the student body at UCLA today supports divestment from weapons and arms manufacturing.
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In that same year, USAC passed another resolution against the Duterte regime. Duterte has purchased hundreds of billions of $$ in arms from companies the UC invests in and profits from.
A RESOLUTION IN SOLIDARITY WITH ANAKBAYAN AT UCLA AND ENDORSEMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT WHEREAS the recent July 2020 passage and signing of the Anti Terror Law in the Philippines has deeply alarmed the United Nations Human Rights council and emboldened the open fascism of the Duterte regime, leading to extrajudicial killings, red-tagging, the vilification of dissent, and unlawful detentions; WHEREAS Karapatan, a leading Human Rights alliance in the Philippines has documented human rights violations for decades. Under President Duterte's term in office from July 2016-April 2020, they have documented over 300 Extra-judicial killings (not including those connected to President Duterte's War on Drugs), over 2,500 incidences of illegal arrest, 100,000+ incidents of harassment, surveillance and 45,000+ uses of churches, medical clinics, schools, and other public places for military purposes. All before the Anti Terror Law became effective.

ALT A RESOLUTION IN SOLIDARITY WITH ANAKBAYAN AT UCLA AND ENDORSEMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT WHEREAS the recent July 2020 passage and signing of the Anti Terror Law in the Philippines has deeply alarmed the United Nations Human Rights council and emboldened the open fascism of the Duterte regime, leading to extrajudicial killings, red-tagging, the vilification of dissent, and unlawful detentions; WHEREAS Karapatan, a leading Human Rights alliance in the Philippines has documented human rights violations for decades. Under President Duterte's term in office from July 2016-April 2020, they have documented over 300 Extra-judicial killings (not including those connected to President Duterte's War on Drugs), over 2,500 incidences of illegal arrest, 100,000+ incidents of harassment, surveillance and 45,000+ uses of churches, medical clinics, schools, and other public places for military purposes. All before the Anti Terror Law became effective.

WHEREAS the University of California system and UCLA is a public institution, and through student funding and tuition utilizes the investments manager Blackrock and is therefore heavily invested in the military-industrial complex and various arms manufacturers such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman- from which the Duterte regime has previously bought arms.

ALT WHEREAS the University of California system and UCLA is a public institution, and through student funding and tuition utilizes the investments manager Blackrock and is therefore heavily invested in the military-industrial complex and various arms manufacturers such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman- from which the Duterte regime has previously bought arms.

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Show the UC Regents what the student body wants. Tell your folks and come out to Luskin Conference Center outside the Regents' Meeting. 📣📢📣WE WON'T REST TIL THEY DIVEST!📣📢📣
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10 years of sit-ins, petitions, protests, and subversive gestures of support had won our money back from imperialism. The UC was the biggest public institution to divest from SA. Apartheid soon crumbled, in no small part due to student organizing.
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It’s been 4 decades and the call to action has sounded again. Your tuition money has gone to fund military occupation and arms manufacturing to further injustice in Palestine, the Philippines, and other countries. Join the @UC_Divest campaign on Wednesday. Demand divestment.
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