We, the undersigned members of the faculty at The Evergreen State College, affirm our

support for ASUW Resolution 20-39, A Resolution to Divest from Companies Profiting
from Violations of International Law and Human Rights.
We applaud students at the University of Washington for taking this important step,
which seeks to protect the human rights of Palestinians subject to Israels illegal
occupation of their territories. We fully endorse the well-documented and well-reasoned
statement they prepared in support of their demands.
The Evergreen State College has a history of engagement with this issue. We have held
many public fora, and the complexities of the problem have been dissected in our
classrooms. As the UW students noted, one of our own students, Rachel Corrie, was
killed by an Israeli soldier as she nonviolently attempted to defend a Palestinian home
from demolition. In 2010, our student body voted by a 78% margin in favor of having
the college divest from companies that profit from the illegal occupation.
As the ASUW resolution makes clear, Evergreen cannot fully implement its divestment
from companies complicit in these human rights abuses until the University of
Washington also acts. Solidarity between TESC students and faculty and UW students
and faculty can be an impetus for real change on both campuses.
We express our support for the students at Evergreen and UW who have taken the lead in
putting their institutions on the side of legality, human rights, justice and peace.
Therese Saliba, Ph.D., English and International Feminism
Greg Mullins, Ph.D., American Studies
Anthony Zaragoza, Ph.D., American Studies and Political Economy
Savvina Chowdhury, Ph.D., Feminist Political Economy
Naima Lowe, MFA, Experimental Media
Jose Gomez, J.D., Constitutional Law
Michael Vavrus, Ph.D., Education and Political Economy
Lin Nelson, Ph.D., Social Science
Larry Mosqueda, Ph.D., Political Science
Jeanne Hahn, Ph.D., Political Economy
Anne Fischel, Ph.D., Documentary Media and Community Studies
Peter Bohmer, Ph.D., Economics
Arun Chandra, DMA, Music Composition and Performance
Alice Nelson, Ph.D., Latin American Studies
Zoltan Grossman, Ph.D., Geography
Amjad Faur, MFA, Photography
Sarah Williams, Ph.D., Feminist Theory
Paul McMillin, MA, Sociology, MLIS
Miranda Mellis, MFA, Literary Arts
Lori Blewett, Ph.D., Communications Studies
Zahid Shariff, DPA, Political Theory