The MIT Fall Career Fair is MIT’s largest annual recruiting event.

Defense contractors like Lockheed Martin continue to maintain a heavy presence at MIT’s Career Fair.

Lockheed manufactures F-16 and F-35 fighter jets; these aircraft are extensively used by the Israeli military to conduct indiscriminate air strikes in Gaza, and they were also used to support the Israeli invasion of south Lebanon in the past week. Lockheed also manufactures AGM-1149R9X Hellfire missiles; these missiles have been deployed against targets like Al-Shifa hospital, resulting in heavy civilian casualties.

This year’s career fair was distinguished from previous years by its heavy police presence. Signs prohibiting “banners, signs, posters, and placards used for protests” were taped against the windows; the Lockheed Martin booth was surrounded by at least three police officers at all times.

Regardless of MIT’s attempts to crack down on protest activities at the career fair, students took collective action to disrupt Lockheed Martin’s recruiting efforts.

Student after student lined up to talk to Lockheed’s recruiters for five, ten, twenty minutes, before stating that they wouldn’t work for a company that supports genocide. Rather than exchanging contact information, they left phony resumes detailing Lockheed’s enablement of war crimes and climate destruction, including the suppliance of arms to Israel used to destroy Gaza, the provision of bombs to Saudi Arabia used to attack school buses in Yemen, and the emission of twenty-nine million metric tons of CO2 this year alone.

Students undertook similar actions against Chevron, leaving resumes detailing the environmental abuses of the fossil fuel industry.

Around noon, a banner reading “LOCKHEED KILLS CHILDREN IN GAZA” appeared over the second floor of the career fair; its placement was such that it couldn’t be taken down without disrupting the fair.

Although the banner was removed about an hour later, Lockheed recruiters packed their things and left their booth at around 1 PM, three hours before the end of the fair.

🚨🚨🚨They did not return.🚨🚨🚨


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