To Admitted Pre-Frosh: Welcome to Harvard!
These student organizations are united in the struggle against Harvard’s investments in the oppressive, neoliberal status quo. Join them in calling for divestment from the weapons manufacturing and fossil fuel industries, fighting for ethnic studies and labor and workers’ rights, and advancing gender and racial justice on campus.
Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP) Coalition
The HOOP Coalition is a group of students and student workers committed to Palestinian liberation. HOOP follows in the tradition of students who stood up to western imperialism in Vietnam and Iraq, rallied against apartheid in South Africa, fought for Black liberation in the United States, and built national living wage campaigns for workers on campuses across the country. HOOP understands that all movements for freedom and justice, past and present, are interconnected.
Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC)
The PSC is committed to supporting the Palestinian struggle for self-determination, justice, and equality through raising awareness, advocacy, and non-violent resistance. The PSC is simultaneously an affinity space for Palestinian students as well as a site of institutional advocacy within the campus community.
Jews for Palestine (J4P)
J4P is a collective of anti-Zionist Jewish students and allies building Jewish community beyond Zionism. J4P recognizes that Jewish safety and liberation is inextricably intertwined with Palestinian safety and liberation, and it rejects the weaponization of antisemitism to justify other forms of bigotry. J4P’s organizing is informed by the memory of Jewish persecution, expulsion, and genocide — it refuses to allow the perpetuation of mirrored violence toward Palestinians.
African and African American Resistance Organization (AFRO)
AFRO was initially founded in 1967 as a pan-Africanist organization, and successfully lobbied for the creation of an African and African-American Studies department at Harvard. While the original AFRO was the “Association of African and African American Students,” the organization was re-established in 2023 as the African and African American Resistance Organization. Following a swatting attack on a dorm of Black students in Leverett House, AFRO demanded the complete demilitarization of the Harvard University Police Department and organized for Black liberation. Since then, AFRO has taken up fights to abolish legacy admissions and seek reparations for Harvard’s legacy of slavery. AFRO stands in unwavering solidarity with the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM)
SLAM serves as the campus voice for Harvard undergraduate students in solidarity with workers at Harvard, in Boston and Cambridge, and beyond. For decades, SLAM has collaborated closely with campus unions — dining hall workers, custodial staff, graduate students, and more — to bring attention to their demands and mobilize the Harvard community to take action. SLAM organizers spearheaded the successful 2001 Living Wage Campaign, helped found a union for undergraduate workers (HUWU), plans know your rights trainings for non-citizen workers, and fight to end time caps for non-tenure track faculty.
Harvard Undergraduate Workers Union (HUWU)
HUWU was founded in 2023 as a labor union representing the more than 500 student workers who make cafés, libraries, and DEI offices around campus run. HUWU gives non-academic student workers a voice in fighting for higher wages, transparent hiring and firing practices, better schedules, and protections against workplace discrimination.
Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard (FFDH)
FFDH is a movement of students and community members who have been fighting for climate justice at Harvard for over a decade. In 2021 — after a decade of FFDH organizing, including a week-long hunger strike in 2014 and mass takeover of the field at the Harvard-Yale football game in 2019 — Harvard finally committed to divest its endowment from the fossil fuel industry. FFDH’s work is far from over, and it has now set its sights on pushing the University to cut all ties with companies that profit off of fossil fuels.
Harvard Ethnic Studies Coalition (HESC)
HESC is a group of students, faculty, and organizers seeking to establish an ethnic studies department at Harvard College. While Harvard trumpets its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, it consistently refuses popular calls to institutionalize ethnic studies. HESC demands that Harvard take the interests, lives, and stories of its diverse community seriously, not just in its public statements but in its material actions.
Harvxrd Feminist Coalition
The Harvxrd Feminist Coalition is an undergraduate-led feminist organization dedicated to advancing gender justice on campus through the elimination of sexual violence, expanded access to reproductive healthcare, greater investment in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (WGS), and more.