DAY FOUR: Divestment White Paper Research Drop
In just one year, Israel dropped over 70,000 tons of explosives on Gaza, more than five times the weight of the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. UCLA labs conduct research to support bomb manufacturing, hypersonic missiles, laser weapons, AI-assisted targeting, and military aircraft—all technologies that are directly implicated in the U.S.-sponsored bombing of Palestine.
UCLA makes graduate and undergraduate students complicit in this war profiteering through low-pay research positions, internship programs, and lab funding. We refuse to be exploited by universities for the benefit of the military industrial complex and forced to contribute labor to fuel violence around the globe. UCLA workers deserve to conduct research to support the future, not be pushed into military internships and extorted for DoD funding so UCLA can profit from war technology.
Workers, students, staff, and faculty refuse to stay silent while UCLA operates as a research arm for the Department of Defense and U.S. and Israeli militaries. Read more from the white paper at unmaskingucla.org. Stand against the war machine, stand with Palestine! 🇵🇸