UK: People & Planet’s Divest Borders Campaign
People and Planet are campaigning to mobilize UK students to lobby their universities to divest from companies that profit from the border and surveillance industry. The campaign builds on their successful Fossil Fuels campaign and their migrants’ justice work.
Campaign Timeline: Ongoing
People and Planet are campaigning to mobilize UK students to lobby their universities to divest from companies that profit from the border and surveillance industry. The campaign builds on their successful Fossil Fuels campaign and their migrants’ justice work.
Universities’ complicity in the border industry is two-fold. First, many universities hold significant investments in these companies, spending tuition fees – a significant chunk of which are paid by migrant students – to help the border industry profit from the suffering of others. Second, university investments give border industry companies a ‘social license to operate’ – a sense of respectability that comes from association with universities.
Students and staff across the UK under the banner of People & Planet’s Divest Borders campaign are fighting to get universities to cut ties with this abusive industry.
