Roughly 100 protesters spent close to three hours outside the California State University Board Of Trustees' meeting in Long Beach Tuesday, calling for the divestment of university funds from any companies they viewed as supporting Israel's war in Gaza.
Amaya, one of the group's representatives, said the protest is part of a continuing campaign of pressure on the issue that he believes is showing progress.
"There have been conversations like this at individual universities, some of them at least...However, [with] CSU - these conversations have not happened with the student body directly, and that's something that we'd like to get the ball rolling on," said Amaya.
KNX News' Pete Demetriou reports that the trustees declined to take dramatic action on the protesters' demands despite the hours-long campout.
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Aimee Bentley Smith, Interim Communications Director at the CSU Chancellors Office, said, "The board did not make any specific comments related to the demands of the protesters [Tuesday], except that during the presentation of the quarterly investment portfolio, they discussed the investment policy and did not make any changes to that policy or determined that they should - that the policy, as it stands, is something that they don't plan to change at the moment."
The trustees agreed to continue working to release information on the nature and amount of mutual fund investments on the university website, but no substantive decision on divestment was reached.
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