Sara Ramirez Instagram – IT CAN BE DONE!!! Repost from @sjpucr This should serve as an example that university administrations CAN respond to peaceful student encampments without resorting to police violence—by listening to their students’ demands. 👏 Students at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) ended their encampment as university administration and protesters reached an agreement regarding investment transparency and study abroad programs in Israel. In support of the encampments, more than 5,000 University of California alumni signed a pledge to withhold donations until the UC system divests from companies that have military and business ties with Israel. UCR has promised the creation of a task force aimed at removing the university’s endowment from the University of California’s Investments Office. 📌 In a statement on Friday the students announced: “We are proud to be the first campus in the University of California system to peacefully end our encampment, without any violence, arrests, or dismissal, and meet the demands of the students. 1️⃣ END THE SILENCE – the administration has ended its silence on Gaza and the immense death toll in Gaza. 2️⃣ DIVEST – UCR has guaranteed a committee to advise the board of trustees on the movement of UCR’s 300 million endowment from UCOP and investing in companies that are not complicit in arms and weapons manufacturing. 3️⃣ DISCLOSE – the university will disclose all their investments and endowments, the corporations, and the size of the investments immediately and transparently on an official UCR website effective 4️⃣ACADEMIC BOYCOTT – UC Riverside has indefinitely suspended all study abroad programs with Israel including the UCR School of Business global trip to Israel. UCR has also guaranteed a committee to work with AVS of Auxiliaries Heidi Scribner on suspending the sales of Sabra hummus. The administration has lacked specificity, yet these material win victories remain resolute. This is not the end for Palestinian advocacy at UCR, this is not the end of UCR’s complicity, we will continue to hold our administration accountable.”