Evergreen College (Washington) signs agreement with students to move toward divesting from companies profiting in Gaza

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article288254270.html

Officials at The Evergreen State College in Olympia and students with the Evergreen Gaza Solidarity Encampment reached an agreement in which the public college will work toward divesting from “companies that profit from gross human rights violations and/or the occupation of Palestinian territories.”

The Memorandum of Understanding was struck after the student-led group occupied the school’s Red Square April 26.

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The signed Memorandum of Understanding between college leadership and the Evergreen Gaza Solidarity Encampment lays out four policy questions that student and faculty-led committees will continue to work to sort out.

The Investment Policy Disappearing Task Force will look at plans to address divesting from certain companies. Recommendations will be due in fall to be considered by college leadership.

Evergreen is Rachel Corrie's alma mater.

[Farmgirl1961]

1. Just an FYI Evergreen College is in Olympia, Washington -- not Oregon... n/t

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Thanks!

[senseandsensibility]

2. Good story, but Olympia is in Washington

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. all those left coast states look the same

[senseandsensibility]

6. I thought it was something like that

Me, I don't know New Jersey from New Hampshire!

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. .

[Deuxcents]

5. That's how ya make progress when there's a disagreement.

No need for destroying property when conversations are going on in good faith.

[maxsolomon]

8. The students better start doing homework.

Which US Defense firms is Evergreen, a left-of-left Public University, even invested in? What are they supplying to the IDF? Does it count if it's only defensive, like for the Iron Dome? What if it's Boeing, which funds nearly everything in WA State?

What about Israeli firms? Are those firms involved in the persecution of Palestinians? What if they're outspoken opponents of Likud or Settler Policy?

I doubt even the managers of the University's portfolio know the answers.

[Deuxcents]

9. Don't they have to have that info in their yearly financial reports?