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NYU administration thuggishly breaks occupation
Continuous updates on Twitter: http://twitter.com/takebacknyu Today New York University has shown its true face more than ever. Claiming to be a “private university in the public service,” it is clearly not even in the service of those students whose tuitions allow it to exist. Earlier today, NYU cut power to all outlets in the occupied […]
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Boycott & Picket Batsheva at BAM & Everywhere
The Buzz, 2-19: Branding Israel By Paul Ben-Itzak “I think it’s not really going to make a difference to boycott a dance company…. The boycott is just preventing something that is good…. I think artists belong to a group of people who don’t represent the ugly side of Israel.” — Ohad Naharin, artistic director, Batsheva […]
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Do The Right Thing: Hampshire’s Selective Divestment Movement
By Ellen Cantarow Dear friends, I am so excited to report to you that Hampshire College has become the first US college… to divest from Israeli occupation, just as they were the first to divest from South African apartheid in 1977! You can read all about it to your heart’s content at the Hampshire Students […]
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NYU OCCUPIED!!!!
Feb 19th, 2009 by Take Back NYU! NYU is the latest university to join a wave of global student occupations in the name of student empowerment. The Kimmel Center for University life is official a reclaimed space. Demands We, the students of NYU, declare an occupation of this space. This occupation is the culmination of […]
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When Sports Trump Human Rights
The Fundamental Principles of Tennis by Kim Petersen / February 17th, 2009 It seems there is a backlash to invading and killing and that is being felt within the world of sports, including the genteel sport of tennis. Israeli tennis star Shahar Peer was denied a visa to play a recent World Tennis Association (WTA) […]
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Boycott promotes debate
Protest takes nonviolent approach toward preserving intellectual freedom in Israel. David Lloyd, Ph.D. Published: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 At the height of Israel”s ruthless assault on Gaza, the U.S. Congress passed a resolution offering its total and uncritical support to Israel. This deeply biased resolution, reputedly drafted by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and […]
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U.S. Trade Unionists Support South African and Australian Dockers’ Boycott of Israeli Cargo
February 17, 2009 – “For the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.”–Martin Luther King Jr., Beyond Vietnam, April 4, 1967 We salute the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) in Durban, and Western Australian dock worker members of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), for […]
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Boycott and Disinvest in Israel, in Solidarity and Self-Defense
Wednesday, 18 February 2009 | Black Agenda Report by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “The corporate Right and the Israel lobby act in tandem.” African Americans must take a leadership role in the movement to boycott and disinvest in Israel, both for reasons of elemental justice and to defend our own people from the raging […]
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Call for Cultural Boycott of Israel
Filmmakers, Artists and Cultural Workers Call for a Cultural Boycott of Israel During the past few weeks we have borne witness to the escalation of Israeli aggression on the people of Gaza. After 18 months of Israel”s economic blockade of Gaza, including the restriction of food, medicine and humanitarian supplies, the past weeks have witnessed […]
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