Employee Appreciation BBQ

Protest for Palestine held at SFU’s Employee Appreciation BBQ

By: Tam Nguyen, Staff Writer and Hannah Fraser, News Editor Content warning: mentions of genocide. On August 14, SFU held its annual Employee Appreciation BBQ at the AQ Pond to celebrate faculty and staff. Around the start of the BBQ, an independent group of SFU students and staff marched in front of attendees to protest SFU’s continued investment in military arms companies that supply weapons to the Israeli military amid the Palestinian genocide. A divestment petition from the SFU Faculty for Palestine details SFU’s investment in BAE Systems, Booz Allen Hamilton, and CAE Inc., noting that “the weapons and services…

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