The university said “military weapons manufacturing for authorized sales did not meet threshold of grave social injury, a prerequisite for divestment.”
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Yale students built a 27-tent “Books Not Bombs” encampment outside of a Board of Trustees dinner on Friday night, occupying Beinecke Plaza to call for military weapons divestment.
The university administration announced to FOX61 that no arrests were made, and the occupation continued Saturday.
Student protestors launched the ongoing campaign to demand that Yale Corp., the university’s board of trustees, disclose their investments in and divest from military weapons manufacturers.
A release on Saturday morning from the “April Action” group and the @occupybeinecke Instagram page announced the development, citing the Yale Daily News.
On Friday, students encamped outside of the dinner honoring outgoing President Peter Salovey to express solidarity with recent protests at Columbia University. They successfully shut the dinner down early, the release said.
Police arrived with zip ties and riot gear and told …
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