Ensuring Student Rights to Protest: SJP’s International Walkout for Divestment and Arms Embargo 

On the morning of Nov. 21, during the hours of 3 a.m. to 5 a.m., student protestors occupied Westlands. This was done in response to the College’s Investment Committee’s rejection of the divestment proposal presented by Sarah Lawrence College Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) in mid-November. Occupying students have unfurled a banner renaming Westlands “Dar al-Fayoumi.” The building’s new name is in memory of Wadea al-Fayoumi, a six-year-old boy stabbed to death by his landlord on Oct. 14, 2023, in Plainfield Township, Illinois. SJP had given a proposed deadline for divestment and disclosure to the administrators, which was then passed on to the Board of Trustees, who failed to act on either request. 

All students in this piece will be anonymous, whether it is their words or their actions being described. This is done in order to protect Sarah Lawrence’s students from administrative action, which SLC’s SJP have outlined in a recent Instagram post. The SJP posted on their Instagram account, stating in the caption, “SLC admin has threatened the actionists who liberated ‘Westlands’ or DAR AL FAYOUMI, with police brutality, jail time and disciplinary action (revoking scholarships for working class students who can't pay to attend one of the most expensive colleges in the country!)”.

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Ensuring Student Rights to Protest: SJP’s International Walkout for Divestment and Arms Embargo 
Ensuring Student Rights to Protest: SJP’s International Walkout for Divestment and Arms Embargo 

Sarah Lawrence College’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) led an occupation of Westlands, the campus’s main administrative building, on November 21st. For over a year, SJP has called for the College to disclose its endowment and divest from companies that send aid to Israel.

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