Bridges Center Student Worker, Sofia Torres, quoted in the Seattle Times
Sofia Torres, Student Worker at the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, was recently quoted in the Seattle Times.
Boeing has donated over $100 million to the UW since 1917, when William E.Boeing gifted the school a wind tunnel to establish an aeronautics curriculum. Students are concerned that UW research could help develop Boeing technology that indiscriminately targets Palestinians.
“We don’t want our education to be co-opted and sold out to corporations like Boeing who use our labor to research and develop — and manufacture — weapons of war,” said Sofia Torres.
Besides cutting ties with Boeing, UW protesters have called for the administration to materially divest from Israel, including ending study-abroad programs there, and to end the repression of pro-Palestinian students and faculty.