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Laughing at Gaza’s Destruction!
An Open Letter to Comedienne Anne Roumanof PACBI, February 19, 2009 Ramallah, Occupied Palestine, February 19, 2009 We know that your stand-up comedy brings laughter and joy to many French- speaking people around the world. As such we are shocked and disappointed to learn that you are going to perform in support of handicapped Israeli […]
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Support this worldwide Divestment and Boycott Campaign Against Israel and Apartheid” appeals Palestinian Labor Leader in SF Speech
Monday, 16 February 2009 “We actually don’t have any other way to exercise international pressure except calling our friends and supporters in the trade unions around the globe to call for this Boycott and Divestment.” stated Manawel Issa Abdellal, member of the Executive Committee of the 250 thousand member Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions […]
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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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