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Open Letter in Support of the Boycott of Arizona by the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
27 June 2010 The U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) endorses and supports the call for Boycott of Arizona on account of its manifestly racist laws, HB1070 and SB 2281. SB1070 calls for police officers to require documentation from people to establish resident status. The law essentially requires police to […]
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Workers Stand Against Israeli Apartheid
Workers Stand Against Israeli Apartheid 48 min. 2010 Labor Video Project In a historic labor/community protest on June 20, 2010, more than five hundred people joined picket lines in the Port of Oakland SSA terminal to call on ILWU Local 10 and ILWU Local 34 members not to cross the picket lines and work the […]
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Sabeel DC Boycotts Israeli-made Ahava Products in Sliver Spring, MD Protest
On Saturday, June 26, 2010, human rights activists staged a protest action in front of Ulta Cosmetics Salon, in Silver Spring, MD, just north of Washington. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.952741&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] Sabeel DC Boycotts Israeli-made Ahava Products …, posted with vodpod
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Oakland Demonstration Hailed A Success For BDS
Palestine Monitor 25 June 2010 The Freedom flotilla, whilst unsuccessful in reaching its destination, raised an important message along with its sails: that the siege on Gaza must end. Now, through the efforts of international solidarity campaigns and Trade Unions, Israel”s own ships are being used to raise protests against Israel”s blockade. In the early […]
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US Social Forum cancels exploitative Zionist workshop
Press release, “Al-Awda, NY”, Arab American Action Network, Arab Resource and Organizing Center, Arab American Union Members Council, Arab Youth Organization, Bay Area Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid, Desis Rising and Moving, Palestine Youth Network, US Palestinian Community Network, Middle East Children’s Alliance, South West Asia North Africa Bay Area Queers, General Union of Palestine […]
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PGFTU message to San Francisco Bay Area trade unionists
To our respected sisters, brothers and comrades in the trade unions, labor councils and workers” organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area Dear Brothers and Sisters, Since the beginning of the workers” struggles in your country – the United States of America – international solidarity has been a constant part of workers” organizing and struggle […]
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Victory at Oakland port: Israeli ship blocked from unloading
Sunday, June 20, 2010 By: Gloria La Riva First ever boycott at US port in solidarity with Palestine In a historic and unprecedented action today, over 800 labor and community activists blocked the gates of the Oakland docks in the early morning hours, prompting longshore workers to refuse to cross the picket lines where they […]
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Hundreds in Oakland protest Gaza blockade
Victoria Colliver, David R. Baker, Chronicle Staff Writers Sunday, June 20, 2010 (06-20) 12:35 PDT OAKLAND — Hundreds of demonstrators, condemning Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, picketed at the Port of Oakland on Sunday and may have prevented an Israeli cargo ship from unloading for the day. Two shifts of longshoremen agreed not to […]
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Activists prevent Israeli ship from unloading at US port
Report, The Electronic Intifada, 21 June 2010 For the first time in US history, a peaceful protest was able to stop workers from unloading an Israeli cargo ship on Sunday, 20 June, in the San Francisco Bay area. From 5:30am until 7pm, social justice activists and labor union organizers blocked and picketed several entrances at […]
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Huge outpouring of Oakland picketers stop unloading of Israeli ship
by Henry Norr on June 20, 2010 If anyone had any doubts that the movement for justice in Palestine is growing by leaps and bounds, in numbers, breadth, and determination, check out what happened this morning in Oakland, CA: “¢ somewhere between 700 and 1,000 demonstrators from all over the San Francisco Bay Area made […]
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