The Corporation is Coming!
The Open the Books! Coalition was formed by concerned students and student groups to demand that Brown University create an open endowment that encourages open and ethical investment practices.
The few companies that we know Brown has been invested in—which we had to find out second-hand—are abusive and irresponsible in the extreme. We can only imagine what this says about the rest of Brown’s confidential portfolio.
As students and members of the Brown community, we are complicit in all forms of abuse and exploitation funded by our tuition and the endowment.
We must have an OPEN and JUST endowment that allows students and other members of the community to hold the Brown Corporation accountable for its investments.
This weekend the Brown Corporation has its private, bi-annual meeting and the decisions they make—over which students have no sway and the minutes of which are only made available 50 years after the fact—have a profound impact on whether Brown lives up to the socially responsible image it espouses.
Come learn more about Brown investments at the PANEL DISCUSSION Friday and then come make your voice heard at the RALLY on Saturday!
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