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Take Action: On Land Day, Support Nonviolent Global Resistance to Occupation & Apartheid
The second annual International BDS Day of Action is right around the corner. Are you ready? March 30th has been known as Palestinian Land Day since 1976, when the Israeli military shot and killed six young Palestinian citizens of Israel as they were protesting the confiscation of their land. In the wake of last year”s […]
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Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Urged Against Israel
On Monday, March 22, 2010, activists from Code Pink, a peace and justice group, staged a demonstration in front of the Washington, D.C. Convention Center. Their purpose: Protesting AIPAC! One of the speakers at the event was Mai Abdul-Rahman. She is with the Washington Interfaith Alliance for Middle East Peace (WIAMEP). She urged “a boycott, […]
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Actions across the UK for BDS Day of Action
Saturday 27 March – Fortnightly London demonstration will take place outside Ahava in Covent Garden, 39 monmouth Street, London, WC2H 9DD this SATURDAY 27 MARCH from 12pm to 2pm. Ahava sells produce from illegal settlements in the West Bank. The demonstration has been called by people from different London Palestine solidarity groups.Please forward widely, bring […]
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Urgent Plea from UC Berkeley Students for Justice in Palestine: Support Divestment
From UC Berkeley Students for Justice in Palestine: Thank you so much to all of the people who joined us on Wednesday night to support the ASUC bill urging divestment from companies that directly fund Israel’s illegal occupation and war crimes (General Electric and United Technologies), and to all who sent letters in support of […]
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BDS actions in Ireland announced
March 27th: On Saturday 27th March the Dublin IPSC”s monthly Boycott & Divestment action will focus on Veolia (the operators of the LUAS tram line and several waste management projects) who are complicit in the building of a colonial-settler only light rail system in occupied East Jerusalem and who operate an Israeli landfill in the […]
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West-Eastern Divan Orchestra: Undermining Palestinian Civil Resistance and Violating Palestinian Cultural Boycott Guidelines
PACBI | 23 March 2010 Occupied Ramallah, 23 March 2010 — A recent article criticizing PACBI’s position on the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (WEDO) [1] is based on false premises, misunderstanding and/or misrepresentation of PACBI’s boycott criteria, and a misconception of the recent history of civil resistance in Palestine. Since the article insinuates that PACBI’s position […]
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BDS conference in Scotland
BDS Weekend: 26-28 March 2010 *** event is fully booked – to get on the waiting list please email us and we will contact you if a place becomes available *** * Working on a strategy to defeat Israeli apartheid * Taking forward the strategy and practical goals of the Cairo Declaration * Participating groups […]
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Ali Abunimah – Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions: Strategies for a Just Peace in Palestine-Israel
Co-founder of the Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah, talks about the prospects for a just resolution to the conflict in Palestine-Israel, the debate over one-state or two-state solutions, and the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions campaign to bring an end to the illegal Israeli occupation in the West Bank, and the blockade of Gaza. Ali Abunimah spoke in Portland, Oregon, […]
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Israelis are behaving like spoiled rich brats
By Udi Aloni The terrifying specter of non-violent resistance to the occupation and the apartheid regime is hovering over the State of Israel, and all the state’s dignitaries have been recruited to battle it. This non-violent resistance operates both in areas under Israel’s reign of control, in the form of a popular struggle on both […]
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