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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 1, 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,...

SESP freshman Sky Patterson speaks Wednesday night at Associated Student Government Senate in support of Unshackle NU’s resolution. The resolution passed 28-5.

ASG passes Unshackle NU resolution, urges private prison divestment

March 2, 2016

A resolution presented by Unshackle NU supporting divestment from companies it said support mass incarceration passed 28-5 with 8 abstentions in Associated Student Government Senate on Wednesday. The...

Members of Unshackle NU present legislation Wednesday night at Associated Student Government Senate that would call on the University to divest from corporations they say benefit from the mass incarceration of people of color. The resolution, which will be voted on next week, was sponsored by 21 student groups.

Senate to vote on legislation supporting Unshackle NU divestment campaign

February 24, 2016

Unshackle NU introduced legislation Wednesday at Associated Student Government Senate to pressure the University to divest from companies the group says promote the prison-industrial complex and to create...

Students dressed in officer uniforms with “G4S” taped to their backs restrain other students acting as prisoners in a demonstration at The Rock on Tuesday. The demonstration was organized by student divestment campaigns Unshackle NU and NU Divest, which are both calling for the University to divest from security company G4S.

Divestment campaigns unite for detained prisoners demonstration

February 24, 2016

As people crowded near The Rock on Tuesday afternoon, two students dressed in officer uniforms with signs reading “G4S” taped to their backs held up ropes tying down two kneeling students who were...

Students present on Unshackle NU, a new divestment campaign aimed at private prison companies. The campaign calls on the University to divest from companies G4S, Corrections Corporation of America and The GEO Group, which the campaign says NU has holdings in.

Unshackle NU kicks off private prison divestment campaign

January 21, 2016

Students introduced a new private prison divestment campaign Wednesday night as part of an initiative to incite structural change to Northwestern’s investments. The campaign, Unshackle NU, calls for...

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