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Why we must cut ties to Israel
January 6, 2010 U.S. trade unionists began circulating an open letter in December to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, challenging his attack on the movement for boycott, sanctions and divestment (BDS) against Israel and explaining why the BDS movement is necessary, especially in the wake of Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza a year ago. While the […]
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Attn LA Activists: Israeli Products at Valley Produce and Farmers Ranch Market
By Yaman For activists in the San Fernando Valley looking for something to do… Valley Produce on Vanowen Street and Farmers Ranch Market on Sepulveda Blvd are both small, non-chain markets with an extensive inventory of Israeli products… from pretzels to frozen food. It would be worthwhile to educate your communities to avoid this store […]
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Palestinian resistance and international solidarity: the BDS campaign
Click here to download ABIGAIL B. BAKAN and YASMEEN ABU-LABAN’s article in Race & Class.
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South African Transport Workers’ Union international secretary calls for isolation of Israel
transcript Zico Tamela (at demo in front of UN in Cairo, Monday 28th Jan) ——— “I always say, remember in South Africa we also fought for the isolation of the racist labour movement from the international labour movement. So what is the difference now? It’s not a question of fighting Jewish workers, no, no, it’s […]
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Udi Aloni: Why We Support the Non-violent BDS Movement
[Aloni describes the BDS movement’s approach to the Palestinian Right of Return as “Legal and moral Recognition of the Palestinian refugees’ right of return (Obviously, each community’s position will be taken into consideration during the desired negotiations”. According to the Palestinian United Call for BDS (http://bdsmovement.net/?q=node/52), that is not in fact the position of the […]
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Richard Falk Interview on Radio Intifada
RADIO INTIFADA intifada=shaking off – oppression/silence brought to you by SWANA, the South/West Asia and Northern Africa Collective follow us on twitter: @radiointifada ONE HOUR SPECIAL on GAZA/Freedom March Thursday, December 31, 2009 2:00 -3pm PST KPFK 90.7fm Los Angeles, 98.7 Santa Barbara and streaming live at www.kpfk.org The SWANA team that brought you ongoing […]
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Dexia Bank Refuses Grant For Jewish Settlements
The Belgian-French Group, Dexia, refused to finance grants meant for the construction of property in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. The decision came after a Palestinian and a Belgium groups filed a petition against financing settlement constructions. Moayyad Affana, coordinator of the twin-project of the Intellectuals Forum in the northern West Bank city […]
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End Israeli Apartheid: The Cairo Declaration
The Gaza Freedom March has come to an end, but before the protesters dispersed they agreed on the following statement: January 1, 2010 We, international delegates meeting in Cairo during the Gaza Freedom March 2009 in collective response to an initiative from the South African delegation, state: In view of: o Israel”s ongoing collective punishment […]
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2009 BDS Highlights
PACBI Newsletter #1 The Year 2009 has proved to be a watershed in the growth of the global BDS movement. The massive lethal Israeli war of aggression on the Gaza Strip in late December 2008 and January 2009 galvanized many organized groups and individuals around the world to call for BDS actions as a means […]
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Sanction Israel?
Sanctions on Israel? What a good idea. It seems that the country does not yield to diplomacy, nor does it fear force, being the overwhelming military power in this region. Since this balance of power in its favour has not induced the country to act magnanimously, there is only one thing for the world to […]
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