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Report-back: Omar Barghouti at SFSU
Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) has been gaining ground and achieving a number of successes recently… but the US is lagging behind. That was the message of Omar Barghouti”s frank and motivational talk at San Francisco State University (SFSU). Those of us at BACEIA were very excited to co-sponsor his talk on November 3rd as […]
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Ali Abunimah: Campus BDS Conference keynote speaker
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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THE NEW INTERNATIONAL OF INSURGENT FEELING
Fred Moten | 7 November 2009 1. The justification of the boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions is quite simple and quite clear: the victims of a sovereign brutality instantiated in racial-military domination have come to an overwhelming consensus, in the very shadow of the state that has come to exemplify The State and […]
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UW must divest from Caterpillar
By Sam Stevenson Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:59 p.m The Badger-Herald University of Wisconsin-Madison Israel is a criminal nation. This statement has been a verifiable fact for many decades and continues to gain support with each new violation of international law Israel commits. Most recently, a U.N. report authored by Richard Goldstone – a South […]
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Boycotts Go Back to School!
This fall, as college students return to campus, the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, in partnership with Hampshire College Students for Justice in Palestine, is organizing a five-city boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) tour across the country. Ever since the dynamic student organizers at Hampshire got their university to divest from corporations supporting […]
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Announcing the 2009 Campus Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Conference at Hampshire College
National Campus Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Conference endorsed by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel What & Where: This fall from November 20th through the 22nd, students, faculty, and staff from around the country who are engaged in Palestine solidarity activism will converge for a conference on campus Boycott, Divestment, and […]
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U.S. pension fund giant confirms divestment from Israel firm
By Ora Coren, TheMarker The U.S. pension fund giant, TIAA-CREF, confirmed in statements to the media on Friday that it divested from Africa Israel Investments, owned by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev, earlier this year. The statements came in response to a letter initiated by a pro-Palestinian group, Adalah-NY, and signed by TIAA-CREF clients. The fund’s […]
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Professors Urge TIAA-CREF to Divest From Company Involved in West Bank Settlements
September 11, 2009 By Emma L. Carew [Update (9/12, 6:20 a.m.)] Adalah-NY, an advocacy group pushing for TIAA-CREF to divest stock holdings in Africa-Israel Investments Ltd., a company involved in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, issued a news release overnight stating that TIAA-CREF had in fact already sold the stock in question. The Adalah-NY […]
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Report and Statement Indicate that TIAA-CREF Has Divested from Africa-Israel
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, NY, September 11, 2009 – TIAA-CREF confirmed in statements to the media today that it divested from Africa-Israel earlier this year. The statements responded to a letter initiated by Adalah-NY and signed by TIAA-CREF clients calling on TIAA-CREF to divest from Africa-Israel, owned by Lev Leviev. A TIAA-CREF spokesperson told […]
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TIAA-CREF Clients Ask Fund to Divest from Leviev’s Africa-Israel Due to Israeli Settlements
(CORRECTION: The report that Adalah-NY references showing TIAA-CREF investment in Africa-israel was actually dated March 31, 2009. This report seems to be no longer available on the TIAA-CREF website, though a copy is available from Adalah-NY. The June 30th report has been made available online in its place as of the past several days by […]
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