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

Harvard University students continue their fight against the university’s association with the Sackler family, owners of the OxyContin producers Purdue Pharma, in partnership with an outside advocacy group.

An online petition titled “Tell Harvard: Cut Ties With Makers of OxyContin” has 14,856 signatures as of May 10, just shy of the petition’s goal of 15,000.

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.”