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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

NU Dissenters: Northwestern is complicit in US militarism. We call an end to it.

NU Dissenters: Northwestern is complicit in US militarism. We call an end to it.

February 2, 2022

We are Northwestern Dissenters.  We are a revived campaign in which previous students laid the foundation for the fight against militarism on campus.  Dissenters is a national anti-militarist,...

Bannister: Divesting from Israel is counterproductive, simplistic, biased

Bannister: Divesting from Israel is counterproductive, simplistic, biased

April 25, 2016

When I first arrived at Northwestern this September, I was intrigued by the NU divestment movement. As a student interested in foreign affairs, I had always followed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and...

Medill junior Zahra Haider speaks at Monday night’s “Decolonize Your Mind” event hosted by NUDivest. The organization announced its campaign to pressure the university to divest from security company G4S at the event.

Northwestern Divest to focus on G4S in current campaign

January 12, 2016

Members of Northwestern Divest announced Monday night its campaign will now have a specific focus on pressuring the University to divest from G4S, one of the world’s largest security companies. The...

Deciding divestment: Northwestern student activists face obstacles beyond their control

Deciding divestment: Northwestern student activists face obstacles beyond their control

May 22, 2015

On the night of Feb. 18, more than 400 people crowded into Norris University Center for an impassioned debate about a resolution asking Northwestern to divest from six corporations the resolution’s sponsors...

Melisa Stephen (Weinberg ’14) speaks about “pinkwashing” in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At Northwestern Divest’s event Thursday, Stephen said Israel tries to promote its inclusive LGBT policies to hide its record of human rights abuses.

NUDivest says its resolution focuses on divestment only

April 30, 2015

Northwestern Divest held an event Thursday to remind students that its resolution only concerns divestment and to place its on-campus efforts in the context of an international effort to advocate for Palestinian...

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