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Attention Geographers! We cannot be neutral on a moving train!
Open Letter to the International Geographical Union (IGU) Click this link and go to the bottom of the page to sign on to this petition! As geographers, faculty, students, and people of conscience, we are profoundly dismayed by IGU”s decision to hold its July 2010 regional conference in Tel Aviv, in violation of the widely […]
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Join the ResisDance! Tell the Israel Ballet they can’t tip-toe around apartheid
Don’t Let the Israel Ballet Tip-Toe Around Apartheid! WHAT: Protest of the Israel Ballet WHEN: Sunday, February 21st, 2010 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM WHERE: Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College at 2900 Campus Road 2 and 5 trains to Brooklyn College / Flatbush Avenue station (A bit further away is the […]
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Israel’s new strategy: “sabotage” and “attack” the global justice movement
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 16 February 2010 An extraordinary series of articles, reports and presentations by Israel’s influential Reut Institute has identified the global movement for justice, equality and peace as an “existential threat” to Israel and called on the Israeli government to direct substantial resources to “attack” and possibly engage in criminal “sabotage” […]
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Settlement goods banned in PA-controlled cities
Ramallah – Ma’an – The cabinet of the Ramallah-based Palestinian government voted on Monday to approve a law prohibiting the entrance of settlement goods into areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority. During the weekly cabinet meeting in Ramallah, ministers said they approved the legislation as settlements amount to “an attack on the Palestinian territories, and […]
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UA: An honorable history of divestment
By Gabriel Schivone Published: Thursday, February 4, 2010 After an intensive anti-sweatshop campaign last spring led by students in the Sweatshop-Free Coalition and University Community for Human Rights, President Robert Shelton had the UA divest our financial holdings in the Russell Corporation due to the company”s singularly cruel labor abuses in its factories in Honduras. […]
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Human rights violations: UA group calls for President Shelton to sever UAPD-Motorola contract
By Jennifer Koehmstedt Published: Monday, February 15, 2010 UA administrators are resisting a recommendation by UA students to terminate the university”s contract with the Motorola Corporation. Students say the company is complicit in human rights violations because of contracts they have with the Israeli government, which is militarily occupying Palestinian lands. In 1999, the University […]
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Divestment campaign gains traction at U of Arizona
by Philip Weiss on February 16, 2010 Divestment is biting at the University of Arizona. Several articles about the campaign in the student newspaper. Here”s the lead: UA administrators are resisting a recommendation by UA students to terminate the university”s contract with the Motorola Corporation. Students say the company is complicit in human rights violations […]
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Shine A Light for Palestinian Freedom
Elton John is scheduled to perform in Apartheid Israel on June 17th, 2010. This performance would undermine the international cultural boycott of Israel, which was initiated by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), as a means of non-violent resistance to Apartheid and Colonialism. In addition to normalizing the oppression […]
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Israel Gets More Comfortable with Status Quo
By Tony Karon Monday, Feb. 15, 2010 “If, and as long as between the Jordan (River) and the [Mediterranean] Sea there is only one political entity, named Israel, it will end up being either non-Jewish or nondemocratic,” warned Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak last week. “If the Palestinians vote in elections it is a binational […]
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Activists protest outside Starbucks over ‘links to Israel’
BEIRUT: Young activists protested in the streets of Hamra, Beirut, Wednesday evening against Starbucks, a coffee shop they claim is supportive of Israel and Zionists. The protesters gathered in front of the coffee shop and raised Palestinian flags and banners condemning Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. They called for boycotting US products because they were linked […]
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