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

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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...

Weinberg juniors and NU Divest members Alexa Klein-Mayer and Hazim Abdullah-Smith lead the group’s workshop about BDS. Over 40 people attended the event in Fisk 311 on Thursday.

NUDivest holds workshop on BDS strategy

February 5, 2015

A Northwestern Divest workshop on its boycott, divest and sanction strategy drew more than 40 students to Fisk Hall on Thursday. NUDivest, a movement pushing for the University to divest from “corporations...

Tom Breitsprecher, a cook at the Willard Residential College dining hall, and Rafael Marquez, a food service worker in 1835 Hinman dining hall, discuss their personal experiences as campus workers at an event held Tuesday as part of Social Justice Week. At the end of the event, a petition supporting campus workers was announced.

Northwestern employees, students discuss workers’ rights as part of Social Justice Week

May 14, 2014

Northwestern workers and students spoke Tuesday night about the increasingly corporate culture of universities like NU and announced a petition supporting the rights of campus workers. The talk,...

Social Justice Coalition plans second ‘Justice’ week

May 8, 2014

The second annual Social Justice Week will begin Monday and feature a number of different events, all centered around the theme “Oppression at the Academy.” Student groups applied to organize different...

Peer Inclusion Educators hope to foster welcoming campus community

November 26, 2013

As many students wrap up the quarter with Reading Period and final exams, the future Peer Inclusion Educators anticipate their training workshops, which are scheduled for the next couple weeks and all...

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