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Israel Divestment Petitions, Press Conference–You can help!
Greetings: The campaign to divest from Israel has begun! Please join us in changing California’s law by helping us circulate a petition measure that would require the state’s two largest pension funds, PERS and STRS, to divest from companies that contribute to the construction of Israeli settlements or provide military equipment to Israel. If you […]
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Think Before You Ink: Boycott Hewlett Packard
For more information on the Boycott HP campaign click here.
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Activists Target Hewlett Packard: “Shoppers, don’t support Israeli Apartheid!”
STOP PRESS…STOP PRESS… On Labor Day, September 6, 2010, about 40 local activists took part in the growing consumer boycott of Israeli goods with lively “back to school” actions at Best Buy and Office Depot in Emeryville. The actions focused on Hewlett Packard (HP), a multinational corporation based in Palo Alto, whose Enterprise Services “Basel […]
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Pete Seeger – Seeger Urged To Scrap Israel Show
Folk music legend PETE SEEGER has been asked to abandon an upcoming concert in Israel and show his support for a Palestinian-led cultural boycott of the nation. The singer/songwriter is billed to perform at the With Earth and Each Other: A Virtual Rally for a Better Middle East – an event organised by the Arava […]
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The Silence of the Israeli Intelligentsia
Weekend Edition September 10 – 12, 2010 The Military and the Academy By LISA TARAKI The ongoing buzz in the Israeli media around statements issued by artists and academics against lecturing or performing in the colony of Ariel – built on occupied Palestinian land – betrays a stark contradiction in the positions of the Israeli […]
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Los Angeles Launches Nation’s First Israel Divestment Campaign
By Linda Milazzo On April 1, 2010, in a no-holds-barred interview with the Christian Science Monitor, Israeli peacemaker Jonathan Ben Artzi, a PhD candidate at Brown University and nephew to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, made clear his belief that equality and social justice will prevail in Israel when the government and people of the […]
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Pete Seeger urged to withdraw support for ethnic cleansers of the JNF
I have to admit I was shocked when I first saw that Pete Seeger was lined up to play a gig for one of the organisations most responsible for the instigation and covering up of zionist ethnic cleansing of the indigenous population of Palestine. Even those artists who play gigs in Israel can usually come […]
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ABQ Says “Sanction Israel”
A half dozen members of the Albuquerque-based grassroots human rights organization–the Coalition to Stop $30 Billion to Israel–explain why they are so pleased to see their billboard message up again calling for the U.S. to be a more honest broker between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority.
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BDS. Boycott Israel Soda-Club Coop Geneva, July 2010
Boycott Désinvestissements Sanctions. Non í l’Apartheid « made in Israí«l » Suisse Switzerland, Gení¨ve, 10 juillet 2010 — Collectif BDS Gení¨ve. Performance dans le grand magasin Coop, contre la marque Soda-Club, entreprise israélienne implantée dans la zone industrielle de Mishor Adumim, dans la colonie illégale de Ma’aleh Adumim Informations : http://www.bds-info.ch/fr http://www.bds-info.ch/fr/actualites/…
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