After nearly three weeks, students dismantle tents amid demands including disclosure of school’s financial ties to Israel
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This is a classic move where the students will get absolutely nothing material but the admin gets everything they want.
If any of you are helping with encampments, make sure to spread the consciousness that merely meeting or planning something is not a material concession is literally in PR playbooks used by universities to pacify student movements.
SFSU did great work. They got negotiations, got amendments added to funding policies, are still negotiating for more amendments, and their camps have still been up the entire time
Harvard is a $50 Billion endowment fund that happens to run a school. So Harvard divesting from Israel affiliated investments is potentially significant.
That would require actually doing so, and they won't now that the students gave up their leverage
