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Ireland report back (part I)
Derail Israeli Apartheid: Report of IPSC Boycott & Divestment Action targeting Veolia On Saturday 27th March 2010 the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) in Dublin staged the latest in a series of actions aimed at highlighting French multinational (and operator of the LUAS) Veolia”s complicity in Israel”s Apartheid regime. Between 1pm and 3pm, forty IPSC […]
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Use Social Media to advance cultural boycott!: Tweet the Pixies to Cancel their Scheduled Performance in Tel Aviv!
Campaign Background What is Cultural Boycott? Academic and cultural boycott is one way of answering the 2005 Palestinian Civil Society Call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions. There are many varieties of cultural boycott, but one way to institute this strategy is to get artists to support the boycott by refusing to perform in Israel until […]
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Tweeting for Land Day: Pixies, Don’t Play Music to Apartheid’s Ears
For Immediate Release: Pixies, Don”t Play Music to Apartheid”s Ears Contact: Nada Elia , US Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel nadabds[at]yahoo.com Katherine Fuchs, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, organizer[at]endtheoccupation.org / 202-332-0994 Tuesday, March 30, 2010, is Global BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) Day of Action. The US Campaign for Academic and […]
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Report Back: French protest against Ahava
Bravo for the BDS collective in Strasbourg for its action against AHAVA outside the Sephora store!! A new Bathrobes Brigade has started to inform the public about AHAVAs stolen beauty! There is NO love in occupation!
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SAVE THE DATE FOR THE FIRST NATIONAL JEWISH ANTI-ZIONIST GATHERING
A PRECURSOR TO THE 2010 UNITED STATES SOCIAL FORUM June 19-22, 2010, Detroit, MI The 2010 US Social Forum comes at a critical time for the Palestine Solidarity Movement. The United States is moving towards another plan for “peace” in Israel/Palestine that will reject true demands for justice in the region. On the other hand, […]
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Australia BDS event!
AUSTRALIANS FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE IN PALESTINE PO Box 619, WODEN, ACT , 2606. ph. 0417 269 984 29 March 2010 MEDIA RELEASE STOP ISRAELI APARTHEID AJPP are participating in the Global Day of Action for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israeli apartheid with two actions on Tuesday 30 March 2010. The first will be […]
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Protesting Egyptian Normalization
On Saturday Egyptians protested on the 31st anniversary of the Egyptian “peace” agreement with Israel at Camp David. The accord has translated into the selling out of the Palestinian people. In recent days meanwhile Egyptian state security forces have maintained a detention craze by arresting students all over Egypt speaking out against Israeli acts of […]
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Berkeley joins divestment movements at University of Michigan, Wisconsin, Sussex, & Wayne State University.
“Cal-Berkeley students pass divestment, fight veto” ARAB AMERICAN NEWS (Dearborn, Michigan) March 27, 2010 Page 16. [This article documents the spread of campus movements to dis-invest from the Israeli occupation of Palestine:] “…One such campus is the University of California-Berkeley, one of the most prominent public research universities in the United States according to many […]
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LAND DAY: March 30th Global Day of Action for BDS!
March 30th is the commemoration of Land Day and a global day of action for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. On 30 March 1976, thousands of people belonging to the Palestinian minority in Israel gathered to protest Israeli government plans to expropriate 60,000 dunams of Arab-owned land in the Galilee. In the resulting confrontations with Israeli […]
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