Over 150 protesters staged a walkout outside of the Law School during Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting, calling on the University to divest from weapons manufacturers supplying Israel with arms.
The Coalition for Mutual Liberation, a pro-Palestinian student activism group, announced the walkout two weeks in advance, tabling at Klarman Hall to encourage participation and organizing a mass meeting on Wednesday to answer questions and make signs.
The walkout occurred on the same day as a similar protest on Brown’s campus held by the Brown Divest Coalition.
“I have just one question — When does it end?” one speaker asked the crowd. “How do you tell a mother that their child is an acceptable casualty? How do you tell a child that their parents had to die because the IDF claims they were in the same area as a group of resistance fighters?”…