Category: Statements
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FOLLOW THE MONEY MONDAYS | Duke Board of Trustees Edition
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA — OCT 20, 2025 The Board of Trustees (BoT) is the university’s governing body, responsible for overseeing Duke’s financial decisions and its investment company, DUMAC. But how much do we really know about who serves on that Board? This series examines the financial interests and political entanglements of key trustees to reveal…
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INVEST IN PEOPLE’S NEEDS AND COMMUNITIES, NOT WAR, REPRESSION AND GENOCIDE!
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA — APRIL 30, 2025 University and college administrations, in collaboration with municipalities, police departments, and influential and wealthy alumni and donors, increasingly draw on a similar playbook as they address rising independent political analysis, organizing, and action among students and workers across the country as we connect the dots in organizing on and…
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Faculty Letter to Revise PPD
Over 100 Duke faculty signed a letter demanding Duke revise the “Pickets, Protests, and Demonstrations” policy. We agree with the authors and likewise call on Duke to trust our students, recognize disruption as free speech and revise this tool of repression.
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Duke Deploys “Pickets, Protests, and Demonstrations” Policy to Silence Dissent
8 JANUARY 2025 Duke has escalated its repression against pro-Palestine, anti-genocide protest. Seven members of the Duke community (students and faculty) will be called before the University Judicial Board for hearings that decide whether there will be punishments for nonviolent vocal protest on West Campus on the evening of November 19, 2024. Potential consequences for…
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Introducing Free Learning for a Free Palestine: A Palestine Liberation Education Starter Kit
To work collectively toward the liberation of Palestine, we must organize transnationally. A first step to building transnational organization is collective education—education that teaches us who has power, how power is maintained and used, and how we can challenge it.