At the University of Michigan, students march for divestment from companies sending weaponry to Israel.

"UMich students stage walkout, teach-in to call for divestment"

MICHIGAN DAILY (Ann Arbor, Michigan)by Marissa Corsi

https://www.michigandaily.com/campus-life/umich-students-stage-walkout-teach-in-to-call-for-divestment/




“...Speakers at the event compared current calls for divestment from Israel to the University’s divestment from apartheid in South Africa in 1983 and 1988. Derek Peterson, U-M Ali Mazrui collegiate professor of history and African studies and a member of the Faculty Senate, criticized the University’s response to recent calls for divestment in a speech at the event.

 

“ ‘There’s a lot to be learned from the anti-apartheid struggle today,’ Peterson said. ‘We can’t take eight years as a university to get on the right side of history…’ ”


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