Aircraft engine company’s event cancelled within half an hour of planned start time
On September 29, a Pratt & Whitney recruitment event was cancelled after students protested at the Engineering Career Centre on College and Beverley Street. The event was planned in partnership with Career Exploration & Education and Student Life, and aimed to teach students about Pratt & Whitney’s hireable roles and the recruitment process.
Pratt & Whitney is an aircraft engine and auxiliary power system for commercial, business, and military aircrafts. In the about section of the event, they wrote that “our engines help connect people, grow economies and defend freedom.”
Hours before the event’s scheduled start, UofT Occupy for Palestine called for “ALL OUT NOW TO 255 BEVERLEY STREET” in a group Instagram post with World Beyond War Canada, Palestinian Youth Movement Toronto, and Tkarón:to Students in Solidarity with Palestine.
Protesters stood outside the building at 255 Beverley Street with a banner painted with “WEAPONS COMPANIES OFF OUR CAMPUS” while chanting and handing out fliers. Building staff locked the glass front doors.
UofT Occupy for Palestine wrote to The Varsity that because the Israeli Air Force has operated Pratt & Whitney-powered aircrafts since 1947, “the year the Nakba (the forced displacement of over 750 000 Palestinians from their homes) began, we felt that there was a moral imperative to try and cancel the recruitment event.” (more...)
Pratt & Whitney information session on campus cancelled after student protest
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