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April 23, Berkeley: “Life in Occupied Palestine”: To Exist Is to Resist!
Thursday, April 23 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm La Peña Cultural Center 3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, California 94705 Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1560592187556145/ La Peña Cultural Center, together with Jewish Voice for Peace- Bay Area, present a journal launch, music and fundraiser featuring contributors to Life in Occupied Palestine: A Special Biography Issue: Sarah Ihmoud (Dept. of Anthropology, […]
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New “Biography” issue examines “Life in Occupied Palestine”
USACBI Organizing Collective member Cynthia Franklin, with her colleagues Morgan Cooper and Ibrahim G. Aoudé have co-edited a newly released special issue of Biography, examining “Life in Occupied Palestine.” The special journal issue was launched in Palestine with events at Al-Quds University, Bir Zeit University, the MADA Center, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, and others; it has been […]
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Event: March 27 – BDS Film & Media Studies Workshop at Concordia University in Montreal
BDS Film & Media Studies Workshop at Concordia University in Montreal Co-sponsored by the Middle East Caucus of SCMS in conjunction with USACBI, Faculty 4 Palestine, and Cinema Politica. Date / Time: Friday, March 27th at 5:30 pm Room Location: VA 114 in the VA building of Concordia University, Montreal Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/714964448619407/ This workshop will […]
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Cornel West joins USACBI advisory board, cancels lecture at University of Illinois in protest of Salaita firing
Dr. Cornel West, professor at Union Theological Seminary and esteemed public intellectual, has joined the Advisory Board of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. USACBI is very pleased to welcome Dr. West to its Advisory Board and looks forward to working with him in the future. In addition, Dr. West […]
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UC Davis faculty members urge implementation of divestment
The following statement from faculty members at the University of California – including USACBI Organizing Collective members Sunaina Maira and David Lloyd – published in the Daily Cal on March 6, urges the UC Davis administration to heed the call of the Associated Students at UC Davis for divesting from certain corporations that are involved […]
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USACBI congratulates the students and staff of SOAS on academic boycott endorsement
USACBI extends its warmest congratulations to the students and staff at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) for endorsing an academic boycott of Israel through the passage of a referendum that also was supported by PACBI and Palestinian student and academic unions. That 73% of the 2,056 votes cast between February 23-27, 2015 […]
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Stanford Student Senate Votes to Divest from Occupation of Palestine
Out of Occupied Palestine, the Stanford campaign for divestment, achieved a major victory on February 17, when the Undergraduate Senate of Stanford University passed the divestment resolution it had voted down only one week before. USACBI extends its warmest congratulations to the Stanford students, faculty and staff for their work for justice in Palestine. Their […]
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USACBI mourns the lives and denounces racist murder of three Arab Muslim students
The United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) mourns the lives and expresses condemnation of the murder of three Arab Muslim students at the University of North Carolina on February 10. 23-year-old Deah Shaddy Barakat, who was Syrian American, his 21-year-old Palestinian American wife, Yusor Mohammad, and her sister, 19-year-old Razan […]
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USACBI Newsletter: February 2015
USACBI Newsletter Volume 1, number 1 (February 2015)Published by the US Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel http://usacbi.org USACBI Launches New Academic and Cultural Boycott Initiatives In the wake of a flurry of recent successful boycott and divestment votes, the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) announces four […]
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Racism, Militarism, Poverty: From Ferguson to Palestine. In Support of Angela Davis
USACBI is a signatory of this collective statement in support of Angela Davis and UC Santa Cruz, in response to vicious attacks from the Amcha Initiative upon Davis and the university: Racism, Militarism, Poverty: From Ferguson to Palestine We support and congratulate UC Santa Cruz on their selection of Angela Davis for UCSC”s 31st annual […]
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