TAHRIR is a student-led movement advocating for divestment from and boycott of settler colonialism, occupation, mass incarceration, apartheid, and genocide, in Palestine and beyond, as well as for redirecting of university funds towards the welfare of the student community and empowering its cause towards collective liberation.
Our mission is to decolonize our university, acting in solidarity with the victims of the American empire, and those resisting its injustices both locally and globally. Positioned at the heart of this empire, we, as students within its academic institutions, acknowledge our unique leverage and responsibility to challenge and dismantle its power through various methods including education, direct action, and civil disobedience.
TAHRIR, as our name symbolizes, is rooted in the understanding that liberation is both feasible and necessary. This begins with reorienting our institution's resources to reflect the values and aspirations of the student community over profit and the private interests of the elite. We demand transparency and accountability from our administration, and a shift in resource allocation of resources for Humanity and Reparations. This involves directly supporting those impacted by the legacy of empire, colonialism, and racism, and engaging in efforts that contribute to systemic and meaningful change. Finally, our movement understands that meaningful change doesn't come from passive waiting; rather, it learns from Palestinians and other struggling peoples across the third world, that true transformation requires collective unified grassroots power, steadfastness, and persistent, stubborn resistance.
OUR DEMANDS:
- DIVEST from any and all companies that profit off of the human rights violations committed by Israel, and aid in the apartheid system maintained against Palestinians.
- CONDUCT A FORMAL INQUIRY INTO ANTI-PALESTINIAN, ANTI-ARAB, AND ISLAMOPHOIC RACISM AND HARASSMENT that have manifested at extreme levels, and the way that these forms of discrimination are directly connected by the structures in place to uphold systems of white supremacy and oppress other marginalized communities on this campus. The university should take responsibility for the spread of these biases, and warm against the DEADLY consequences of the spread of Islamophobic propaganda.
- SUPPORT AND REAFFIRM STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND STAFF MEMBERS' ability to support and advocate for Palestine free from vilification.
- RELEASE A FORMAL STATEMENT that clearly defines the massacre in Gaza as a genocidal ethnic cleansing campaign led by Israel and aided by the United States.
MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS:
- Students Allied for Freedom and Equality
- Arab Student Association
- Graduate Employees Organization 3550
- La Casa
- Black Student Union
- United Asian American Organizations
- Native American Student Association
- Filipino American Student Association
- Student Community Of Progressive Empowerment
- African Students Association
- Jewish Voice for Peace
- Young Democratic Socialists of America
- United Students Against Sweatshops
- Oceanic Students Association
- Sunrise Ann Arbor
- Warp at Michigan
- South Asian Awareness Network
- Students Organize for Syria
- The Muslim Coalition
- Muslim Student Association
- Muslim Graduate Student Association
- Islamic Society of Ahlulbayt
- Muslim Law Student Association
- Muslim Business Student Association
- North African Student Association
- East African Student Association
- Syrian Student Association
- Yemeni Student Association
- Jordanian Student Association
- Egyptian Student Association
- Bangladeshi Student Association
- Pakistani Student Association
- Indian Muslim Student Association
- Students of Color in Public Policy
- Iraqi American Union
- Arab MENA Student Psychological Association
- Arab Business Society
- Lebanese Student Association
- Students of Color interested in Law
- Epsilon Alpha Sigma Sorority Inc.
- Omega Beta Eta, Arab Fraternity Inc.
- Zeta Chapter of Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity, Inc.
- Lambda Theta Phi, Latin Fraternity Inc.
- Palestinian Empowerment Foundation - UM Medical School
- Law Students for Justice in Palestine - UM Law School
- Here Earning a Destiny through Honesty, Eagerness, and Determination of Self
- Michigan in Color
- Beta Eta Chapter of Chi Upsilon Sigma National Latin Sorority, Inc.
- Community Led Interpretation For Medical Equity
- Michigan Institute for Progressive Policy
- Inter-Cooperative Council of Ann Arbor
- People's Michigan
- Dil Se
- Uproot: Transcending and Radicalizing Environmental Education
- POSA (Portrait of South Asia)
- The Michigan Gayly: LGBT Issues
- Puentes
- Notably Black and Gay
- Black Maternal Equity Collective
- Zeta Omega Eta
- National Arab American Medical Association NextGen
- Sociologists for Palestine
- MA:E Magazine
- STAMPS in Color
- Muslim Engineering Society
- Black Undergraduate Psychological Association
- She's the First at the University of Michigan
- Black Radical Healing Pathways
- Michigan Sikh Studies Forum
- 48 Frames
- Latinx Indigenous Social Work Alliance
- Michigan Muslim Pre-Health
- World for Women
- Therapeutic Art Project
- Friends of Guatemala
- La Salud
- Arabesque Dance Troupe
- ELEVATE
- UMMA Student Advisory Board (SAB)
- Vietnamese Student Association
- Prison Creative Arts Project Student Organization