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.