#Raleigh #SitIns #Woolworth #Woolworths ✊

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Black students arrested during sit-in in former Cameron Village honored with historic marker

While many Raleighites know and love the Village District shopping center, they are likely unaware that one of the most pivotal peaceful protests in the Civil Rights movement occurred right on the 400 block of Woodburn Road - at what was formerly known as Woolworth's.

https://www.wral.com/story/civil-rights-marker-honors-student-sit-ins-at-former-cameron-village/20831914/

9 minutes.

@ Vic College with the Divest Occupation, who have been here for 9 days, and who have been threatened with eviction at 10PM.

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Why Are We Here? – Background

While the University of Toronto announced its divestment timeline in 2021, Victoria University, St. Michael's College, and Trinity College are federated colleges – they manage their own endowments. This means that while U of T has committed to divesting, Victoria College has not.

For a decade students have been calling on Victoria College to divest from fossil fuels. Currently, 3.5 percent of Victoria College’s 500 million dollar endowment is invested in fossil fuel companies. That is about 17.5 million dollars. To date, Vic has yet to respond to these demands through action. In 2021, after a period of intensified pressure from students and U of T’s announcement that it would divest, the Board of Regents (the highest decision-making body at Vic) asked the property committee and the investment committee to consider the question of divestment and separately produce a report advising whether Victoria College should divest by February 2023. Victoria College failed to meet this commitment, and the reports have yet to be released to the public. As a result, Climate Justice U of T disrupted the February Board of Regents meeting to demand Victoria College divestment. These reports have been finalized and it is expected that they will be reviewed at a closed meeting of the Board of Regents on the 30th of March.

All eyes are now on Victoria College, as we wait for them to make a decision. The choice rests in their hands.

Victoria College’s continual refusal to respond to students' demands shows a clear pattern: they are more concerned with slim margins of profits than their students' lives. We are protesting to have the concerns of students heard at the decision-making tables. We aren’t leaving until Vic divests.

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¹ https://docs.google.com/document/d/16ynLn3Jp3E2B0wZKJiiO_Zu_RrxE2p5n9FUbz_NPOmw/mobilebasic

#FuckThePolice #ClimateJustice #SitIns

Today in Labor History February 13, 1960: Black college students staged the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #racism #JimCrow #nashville #sitins #CivilRights

"You may well ask: 'Why #DirectAction? Why #SitIns, #marches and so forth? Isn't #negotiation a better path?' . . . #Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a #crisis and foster such a #tension that a #community which has constantly refused to #negotiate is forced to confront the issue. . . . The #purpose of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation." #MartinLutherKing Jr., Letter from #BirminghamJail. #MLKDay