{"id":454989,"date":"2026-09-06T01:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T01:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454989\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T01:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T01:13:16","slug":"victory-san-jose-state-students-pressure-northrop-grumman-to-withdraw-from-campus-career-fair-fight-back-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454989\/","title":{"rendered":"Victory! San Jose State students pressure Northrop Grumman to withdraw from campus career fair \u2014 Fight Back! News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/xCb8JBhq.png\" alt=\"A protester holding signs.\" title=\"Victory! San Jose State students chase Northrop Grumman from career fair  | Fight Back! News\"\/><\/p>\n<p>San Jose, CA \u2013 On September 2, San Jose State University intended to host Northrop Grumman at the Fall \u201826 Business, Financial Services, and Logistics Job and Internship fair. Northrop Grumman, a weapons manufacturer which maintains $3 billion in contracts with the Defense Department, is a target for Students for a Democratic Society\u2019s (SDS) ongoing campaign demanding SJSU cut ties with war profiteers.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Northrop Grumman\u2019s invitation to the campus career fair, SDS at SJSU organized a mail-in and rally calling for the career center and university administration to deplatform war profiteers like Northrop Grumman. The mail-in was a tactic employed by students to flood the inboxes of university administrators leading up to the day of the career fair, and it proved to be an effective one.<\/p>\n<p>On the day of the career fair, as student protesters gathered outside the SJSU Student Union, SDS received notice that Northrop Grumman had completely withdrawn from the career fair. This withdrawal follows a similar incident last semester at SJSU, in which student protesters forced Lockheed Martin to withdraw from a campus informational session.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Northrop Grumman&#8217;s withdrawal, the students continued with their rally outside the career fair to call out the school administration\u2019s ongoing collaboration with war profiteers, echoing chants such as \u201cWhen Northrop does the killing, admin makes a killing!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Panda Shim from SDS stated, \u201cWhether it\u2019s Lockheed Martin or Northrop Grumman, we will not allow these defense organizations who actively supply weapons to commit genocide overseas and terrorize our immigrant communities onto our campus!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSJSU has invited Northrop Grumman to this career fair despite the students making it clear, time and time again, that we will not ever accept war profiteers to do business on our campus. Northrop Grumman is the sixth-largest weapons manufacturer on the planet and has been supplying the U.S. and Israeli air forces with missile delivery systems and laser weaponry for their fighter jets and attack helicopters. Shame!\u201d said Mateo Rodriguez-Deal from the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2o3Rz0ac.png\" alt=\"A protester holding a sign\" title=\"San Jose State student with 'Fight back' sign chases off Northrop Grumman war profiteers.  | Fight Back! News\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sharat Lin from San Jose Against War provided words of support, \u201cAs you build the anti-war student movement here on campus, know that the people of San Jose support your struggle and are building the anti-war, pro-Palestine movement!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur voices matter, our concerns matter, and what happens to people outside our campus matters. San Jose State should be a place where students can build their futures without having to compromise their conscience. Keep war profiteers off campus!\u201d said Haddy Barghouti from Students for Justice in Palestine to close the rally.<\/p>\n<p>While the students were able to successfully kick Northrop Grumman off campus, their fight is not over. This smaller victory was part of a larger ongoing struggle to push their campaign forward and cut ties with all war profiteers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fightbacknews.org\/tag:SanJoseCA\" class=\"hashtag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#SanJoseCA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/fightbacknews.org\/tag:CA\" class=\"hashtag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#CA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/fightbacknews.org\/tag:AntiWarMovement\" class=\"hashtag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#AntiWarMovement<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/fightbacknews.org\/tag:WeaponsIndustry\" class=\"hashtag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#WeaponsIndustry<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/fightbacknews.org\/tag:StudentMovement\" class=\"hashtag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#StudentMovement<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/fightbacknews.org\/tag:SDS\" class=\"hashtag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#SDS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/fightbacknews.org\/tag:SJAW\" class=\"hashtag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#SJAW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/fightbacknews.org\/tag:Featured\" class=\"hashtag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Featured<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose, CA \u2013 On September 2, San Jose State University intended to host Northrop Grumman at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-454989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}