Activists at Harvard Stage Die-in to Protest School’s Connection to Opioid Company

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Activists at Harvard University are staging protests against the school's connection with the Sackler family, owners of the OxyContin producers Purdue Pharma. They're calling on the university to remove the Sackler name from all campus buildings.

Activists stage ‘die-in’ at Harvard to protest opioid drug company connection

More than 50 students posed as corpses on the floor of the Harvard Art Museums or tossed empty pill containers and bloodied paper money from the second-floor balcony in an April protest. Some of the protesters at the Harvard Art Museum chanted slogans such as “No More Drug War,” “Take Down the Name,” and “Shame on Sackler.”

In a statement shortly following the April protest at Harvard, university spokesman Jason Newton stated that the university is “reviewing a proposal to dename the two buildings,” according toreported. P.A.I.N. stands for Prescription Addiction Intervention Now.

 

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