Please fill out this form to show your support for SDS's divestment campaign and to demand all charges be dropped against students.
By filling out this form, your name will be attached to an email sent to Chancellor Mark Mone, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Kelly Haag, Dean of Students Adam Jussel, and Chief of Police David Salazar.
For more information on SDS's campaign and the students given citations:
Below is the email to be sent:
On February 9, 2024, the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) engaged in a sit-in at Chapman Hall following Chancellor Mone's failure to meet with and listen to their Divestment Campaign demands. Over 40 students occupied Chapman Hall for approximately 6 hours to demand the chancellor meet with them. Instead of simply confirming a date, time, and location for a meeting, the students were met with aggression from UWM administration and police. In the end, five students were wrongfully detained and given trumped-up charges.
We demand that all charges be dropped against the 5 students given citations: Kayla Patterson, Audari Tamayo, Patricia Fish, Robby Knapp, and Nate Ramirez. The charges these students facing are unlawful assembly, unauthorized occupation, prohibited noise, prohibited signs, and resisting arrest.
These students did nothing wrong and the charges placed against them are unjustified and should be immediately dropped. The real criminals are those committing, aiding and supporting the genocide against Palestine! Drop the charges now!
We are also writing in support of SDS's campaign, which has been endorsed by the 63+ organization Wisconsin Coalition for Justice in Palestine to end all ties with genocide, which includes their demands to:
Divest from weapon manufacturers that aid the Palestinian genocide in “Israel”
End all study abroad trips to “Israel”
Rename Golda Meir Library
Our public institutions have a duty to halt all relational ties with a genocidal settler-colonial state of Israel, and they have a duty to respect constitutional rights to free speech and protest. Cut ties with genocide now! Drop the charges now!
