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Seattle, Get Ready for a New Cultural Boycott Target
The Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra will perform in Seattle February of 2011. Time to get organized to intervene in the Seattle Symphony’s complicity with apartheid!
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H&M Protest in Barcelona on April 10th
More info at palestina.cat (in Catalan). Video at BTV (local TV from Barcelona) Video at EuropaPress (news agency)
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Attack on Berkeley divestment bill dishonest and misleading
Sydney Levy and Yaman Salahi, The Electronic Intifada, 12 April 2010 A coalition of nearly 20 Jewish groups, ranging from the right-wing David Project and the Jewish National Fund to the liberal J Street, is distributing a misleading statement condemning a Student Senate bill at the University of California, Berkeley (“Troubling UC Berkeley Student Senate […]
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Berkeley’s Response to ASUC Presidential Veto of Divestment Senate Bill 118A
Response to ASUC Presidential Veto of Senate Bill 118A UC Berkeley Divestment Task Force UCB Students for Justice in Palestine Introduction The following document is a response to ASUC President Will Smelko”s veto[1] of Senate Bill 118A, “A Bill in Support of ASUC Divestment from War Crimes.” SB 118A called on the UC Berkeley student […]
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Israel’s shock doctrine
The organization Israel has been trying to join, the OECD, finds that the zionist entity has the biggest poverty rate in the industrialized world, in part due to the neoliberal policies enacted during Netanyahu”s term as finance minister. Watch out for news about whether the OECD decides to admit the hafrada regime in the coming […]
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Swedish consumer group urges Israel boycott
Published: 11 Apr 10 10:07 CET Online: http://www.thelocal.se/26010/20100411/ A consumer organization in western Sweden with some 350,000 members has called on the country’s Coop supermarkets to stop selling all goods from Israel. * Consumer group rejects Israel boycott call (12 Apr 10) * Swedish pension fund bars Israeli arms firm (30 Mar 10) * Jews […]
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Boycott Veolia: Complicit in Israeli War Crimes- Demo, London
Today’s demo at the Natural History Museum in London against the sponsorship of a wildlife photographic exhibition by Veolia, a French multinational company engaged in the occupation of Palestine through its collaboration with Israel in infrastructure work on the settlements and in running the Jerusalem Light Rail project.
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Birthright Unplugged’s Summer 2010 Program
Since 2005, Birthright Unplugged has facilitated travel in Palestine for numerous multiple groups of people. We do this because we have found that when people have firsthand experiences of and relationships with Palestine, it strengthens their resolve, credibility, and accountability to do sustained justice movement work. Our 2010 program will include seven days of travel […]
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Selective Divestment from Companies that Profit from Human Rights Violations in Israel and Palestine: A Campaign to End Apartheid and Promote Peace
39th U.S. President Jimmy Carter, in his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, describes how “Israel”s continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land.” Since the United Nations decided to partition historic Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state in 1947, Israel has […]
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Georgetown University Admits Complete Lack of Oversight of Endowment Investments
Yesterday morning, five members of the Georgetown, Divest! Coalition met with four Georgetown University administrators, Lawrence Kochard, the Chief Investment Officer, LaMarr Billups, Assistant Vice President of Business Policy Planning, Dan Porterfield, Senior Vice President for Strategic Development, and Jeanne Lord, Associate Vice President of Student Affairs. In a meeting that lasted for over an […]
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