On Thursday, May 16, the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators (FPSE) passed the following motion with the full support of the entire membership at the FPSE AGM
This resolution echoes the motion that our own Faculty Association Membership passed in April.
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Whereas FPSE stands for academic freedom, freedom of expression, and freedom of assembly,
Whereas students at Thompson Rivers University successfully negotiated the University’s disclosure of and potential divestment from any and all companies complicit in the violence, occupation, and dispossession occurring in Gaza and the West Bank,
And whereas post-secondary students nationally and globally are experiencing arrest and vilification by their administrations for their involvement in peaceful protest and assembly,
Be it resolved that FPSE shall disclose and divest from any and all investments, direct and indirect, in companies that are complicit in the violence, occupation, and dispossession occurring in Gaza and the West Bank against the Palestinian people,
And be it further resolved that FPSE shall call upon member locals and their respective institutions to
• Disclose and divest from any and all investments, direct and indirect, in companies that are complicit in the violence, occupation, and dispossession occurring in Gaza and the West Bank against the Palestinian people; and
• Advocate for the support and protection of the academic freedom and freedom of expression for all post-secondary students, staff, and faculty who demonstrate against Israel’s military campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the complicity of Canadian institutions in Israel’s colonial violence.