Group demands university cut ties with Boeing over company’s military contracts with Israel

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29712883

Edward Helmore
Tue 6 May 2025 09.32 EDT

"More than two dozen pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested on Monday night at the University of Washington in Seattle after they occupied an engineering building and set dumpsters on fire.

The protest group, called Super UW, occupied the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building to demand that the university sever its ties with Boeing, as the aerospace company has military contracts which the students say “are used by Israel in their US-funded genocide of Palestinian people”."

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Howl at the blind moon. Same as it ever was. Twenty years if this subsides they’ll be teaching in counter culture classes to dead eyed students while touting it as some prime legacy of the people they had a hand in. Its why the brutal history should be taught starting in middle school.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 day ago

      Ginsberg was a weird dude, but Howl is some powerful shit…

      And having read it again right now, while in the throes of fascist takeover… I get it now. It makes sense to me now. I get the madness he’s describing.

      Edit: this line really struck me:

      who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism,

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        I was about to just post the entire Moloch set, but unhinged posting about this is what c\hybridwarfare is for.

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        Battle of Blair Mountain, Tulsa Race Massacre, Cincinnati Riots, Nativists attacks on the Irish, Gentleman’s Riot, Bear River Massacre, The Burning of China Town, Seattle Riot…

        You get my point by now, no?