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Omar Barghouti: BDS as response to repression of Palestinian nonviolence
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 Many of you have already heard of the most recent arrest by Israel of a leader of Palestinian nonviolent resistance to occupation and apartheid. Our allies at Stop the Wall have information and action steps that you can take to demand the release of Jamal Juma’, who joins Mohammad Othman and […]
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On the approaching anniversary of Gaza massacre, help us recruit more endorsers to our BDS campaign
14th December 2009 Dear Friends, First, welcome to our new US Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel endorsers. You have helped us pass the 400 mark of US academic endorsers. With well known author Barbara Ehrenreich adding her name to our list of authors, artists, musicians, and others, we now also have 110 […]
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Israeli boycott deserves attention
Letters to the Editor We must ask what “academic freedom” means for Palestine. Published: 11/12/2009 By Various Authors (see below) The growing call for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions deserves careful response. Bernstein”s and Saadi”s “Don”t allow boycott of Israeli universities” letter in the Nov. 9 issue of The Minnesota Daily is a welcome […]
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New Resources for Recruiting BDS Supporters
Below please find two new postcards you can download, print, and reproduce to hand out to people and help us recruit new endorsers of the boycott campaign. You can also find PDF versions of these files in the right-hand sidebar under “Boycott & Divestment Resources.” Download USACBI Postcard as PDF Download BDS Postcard as PDF
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Fred Moten speaks on Solidarity with Palestine
American Studies Association Meeting, November 7, 2009 Academic Freedom and the Right to Education: The Question of Palestine (sponsored by the Program Committee) The Renaissance DC Hotel Auditorium PANELISTS: Fred Moten, Duke University (NC) Omar Barghouti, Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel David C. Lloyd, University of Southern California (CA) Steven […]
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Q and A with Ali Abunimah: (BDS) Conference keynote speaker at Hampshire College
Ali Abunimah, co-founder of Electronic Intifada and author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse delivers the keynote address at the 2009 Campus BDS Conference at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA.
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Reflections on the BDS conference at Hampshire
by Philip Weiss on November 26, 2009 The spirit of the Hampshire College conference on Boycott Divestment and Sanctions that I attended last weekend is captured by Adam Horowitz”s post of Sunday. There was a stirring sense of youthful leadership, and a sense that the left in America can no longer seek to divorce itself […]
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National BDS Conference on Flashpoints
Today on a special edition of Flashpoints, Editor and co-founder of the Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah, delivers the keynote speech last weekend at the National Campus Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Conference at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts; Abunimah lays out the strategies and the tactics of the growing international movement against Israeli apartheid policies in […]
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Divestment Walkthrough at Hampshire college BDS Conference
This includes: breaking down by type and size of institution; examining steps for running a campus campaign; framing your campaign to on and off campus media; exploring various school structures and working with the trustees and administration; strategies for talking to your own campus and opposition about BDS; evaluating levels of support, sympathy, and opposition; […]
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Opening: Boycott National Committee Speech, Riham Barghouti
This fall from November 20th through the 22nd, students, faculty, and staff from around the country who are engaged in Palestine solidarity activism converged for a conference on campus Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS). This conference had three key goals: 1) To co-educate and share resources amongst campus organizers on the process of initiating BDS […]
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