GSA student on day 5 of hunger strike
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GSA student, Hannah Torrance Bright on day 5 of hunger strike is joined by supporters outside Glasgow's GoMA.
Hannah Torrance Bright, 20, a student at Glasgow School of Art, said: “the fact that we as students have to resort to starving ourselves in order to be heard by our university breaks my heart, but at this point we have no other option. The board has continually dismissed students’ cries for help over the crisis we are graduating into, and we cannot continue to be silenced knowing that our fees are contributing to the senseless destruction of life on earth. I am deeply afraid for the future, and our pleas have thus far been ignored by GSA.”
Two Glasgow School of Art students had commenced a hunger strike , as part of the Divest Glasgow School of Art campaign. Jasmin Roberts has come off hunger strike after 4 day after meeting with GSA representatives, while Hannah will continue the strike until her demand for the board to make a concrete commitment to divest from all fossil fuel and arms investments is met.
The hunger strike is the continuation of a campaign of direct action against GSA’s unethical investment policy. It comes following a letter sent to the university on 01/03/2022 demanding divestment, on which the board has yet to act. This strike signals the urgency to divest - students will not be ignored while their fees continue to fund some of the companies most responsible for the climate and humanitarian crisis. Our universities should be fighting to ensure their students’ future, and are instead profiting off of the destruction of it. The Glasgow School of Art is complicit in this emergency.
GSA’s most recent statement on socially responsible investment, from 2012, claims that it is “committed to investing its funds in organisations which adhere to the highest possible social, environmental and ethical standards.” Their most recent published investments show investments in JP Morgan, the world’s leading fossil fuels financier, and Barclay’s, the largest global investor in the arms trade. This is not justifiable by any environmental or ethical standards, and students are demanding that GSA adheres to its word and stops profiting off of the exploitation of humanity and the environment.
Divest Glasgow School of Art, supported by members of other local groups, have informed the GSA board that Jasmin Roberts, 17, and Hannah Torrance Bright, 20, intend to go on hunger strike until their demands are met. Over the course of the strike they will be present in spaces both in the university and around the city to inform members of the public about GSA’s investments, and why they are striking.
Hannah Torrance Bright, 20, a student at Glasgow School of Art, said: “the fact that we as students have to resort to starving ourselves in order to be heard by our university breaks my heart, but at this point we have no other option.
GSA student, Hannah Torrance Bright on day 5 of hunger strike is joined by supporters outside Glasgow's GoMA.
Hannah Torrance Bright, 20, a student at Glasgow School of Art, said: “the fact that we as students have to resort to starving ourselves in order to be heard by our university breaks my heart, but at this point we have no other option. The board has continually dismissed students’ cries for help over the crisis we are graduating into, and we cannot continue to be silenced knowing that our fees are contributing to the senseless destruction of life on earth. I am deeply afraid for the future, and our pleas have thus far been ignored by GSA.”
Two Glasgow School of Art students had commenced a hunger strike , as part of the Divest Glasgow School of Art campaign. Jasmin Roberts has come off hunger strike after 4 day after meeting with GSA representatives, while Hannah will continue the strike until her demand for the board to make a concrete commitment to divest from all fossil fuel and arms investments is met.
The hunger strike is the continuation of a campaign of direct action against GSA’s unethical investment policy. It comes following a letter sent to the university on 01/03/2022 demanding divestment, on which the board has yet to act. This strike signals the urgency to divest - students will not be ignored while their fees continue to fund some of the companies most responsible for the climate and humanitarian crisis. Our universities should be fighting to ensure their students’ future, and are instead profiting off of the destruction of it. The Glasgow School of Art is complicit in this emergency.
GSA’s most recent statement on socially responsible investment, from 2012, claims that it is “committed to investing its funds in organisations which adhere to the highest possible social, environmental and ethical standards.” Their most recent published investments show investments in JP Morgan, the world’s leading fossil fuels financier, and Barclay’s, the largest global investor in the arms trade. This is not justifiable by any environmental or ethical standards, and students are demanding that GSA adheres to its word and stops profiting off of the exploitation of humanity and the environment.
Divest Glasgow School of Art, supported by members of other local groups, have informed the GSA board that Jasmin Roberts, 17, and Hannah Torrance Bright, 20, intend to go on hunger strike until their demands are met. Over the course of the strike they will be present in spaces both in the university and around the city to inform members of the public about GSA’s investments, and why they are striking.
Hannah Torrance Bright, 20, a student at Glasgow School of Art, said: “the fact that we as students have to resort to starving ourselves in order to be heard by our university breaks my heart, but at this point we have no other option.
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