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Coalition’s Argument for Divestment Presented to Georgetown University Community
On Tuesday, April 13, the coalition presented its argument to the Georgetown community for selective divestment from eight companies that profit from human rights violations in Israel and Palestine. After coalition member Jackson Perry delivered a forty-minute presentation, laying out our case, Professor Mark Lance of the Program on Justice and Peace gave a short […]
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Hedy Epstein Speaks Out for Divestment at UC Berkeley
For More details see Eyewitness accounts of UC Berkeley divestment debate and UC Berkeley Divestment Debate Shows Importance of Campus Divestment Movement both posted on the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation Blog.
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Inspiration from April 15th
In Malmí¶, Sweden, protesters organised a town square gathering with speeches and information handouts. An open letter to H&M board chair Stefan Persson was read out aloud. Three activists also dressed up as Israeli occupation soldiers and went into a nearby H&M store to inform customers about the BDS campaign. More info at Isolate Israel […]
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UC Berkeley Speaks Out Against Divestment Bill Veto
Almost one month after the UC Berkeley Student Senate voted 16-4 to divest from General Electric and United technologies because of their complicity in Israeli war crimes the Student Senate meets again to attempt to override a veto by President Will Smelko. The Meeting ended around 7:15 AM with the senate tabling the bill to […]
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UC Berkeley divestment vote–it isn’t over yet
Being a part of the tremendous coalition effort to pass a divestment bill at Berkeley was quite simply an ecstatic experience. As my colleague Sydney Levy said, “The movement grew by an enormous leap today.” First, the vote itself: after the UC Berkeley Student Senate originally voted on March 18, by a margin of 16-4, […]
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X-Factor’s Stacy Solomon withdraws from “celebrate Israel” concert
Exclusive to ISM London Representatives for X-Factor runner-up Stacy Solomon said today that the singer would no longer be performing at the Zionist Federation”s “celebration of Israeli independence” on Monday. The move comes after activists part of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli apartheid wrote to Solomon to ask that she withdraw […]
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Eyewitness accounts of UC Berkeley divestment debate
More on the incredible UC Berkeley divestment debate: US Campaign Steering Committee member Sophia Ritchie writes from Berkeley: “I write these words after staying up all night alongside many, many others as we awaited the decision from UCB ASUC senators as to whether they would overturn the veto on SB 118, calling on the UC […]
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Berkeley’s BDS epic continues; Dispatches
Posted by Helena Cobban April 15, 2010 10:51 AM EST The debate at U.C. Berkeley’s student Senate (ASUC) continued throughout last night, on whether to over-ride the veto the Senate president had cast against the recent divestment bill. The divestment bill, if passed, would mandate that the ASUC divest from companies that actively support Israel’s […]
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Showdown for Human Rights in Berkeley
by Rae Abileah on April 15, 2010 A former IDF soldier is speaking out in opposition to the occupation of Palestine. An 85-year old Holocaust survivor testifies to the peril of waiting to make a decision rather than saving lives now by stopping war machines. A queer Jewish Latino speaks about his own journey from […]
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ASUC Senate Still Undecided on Vetoed Divestment Bill
By Allie Bidwell and Nick Myers Following a nearly nine-hour discussion that began at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday evening and lasted into Thursday morning, ASUC senators have yet to reach a decision on whether or not they would uphold or override President Will Smelko’s March 24 veto of a controversial bill urging the student government and […]
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