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Official Statement from Take Back NYU!
Feb 21st, 2009 by Take Back NYU! Take Back the Balcony!, Thursday night, Bob Burdalski From 10 pm on February 18th 2009 to 2 pm on February 20th, students of Take Back NYU! occupied the Kimmel Center for University Life in a historic effort to bring pressure on NYU for its administrative and ethical failings […]
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Open Letter from University of Toronto Faculty
OPEN LETTER TO President Naylor, Dear President Naylor, January 16, 2009 Shortly after launching the attack on Gaza, Israel’s jets bombed the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG). The Israeli state claims that the IUG is a “cultural symbol” of Hamas. Neither this nor any other justification of Israel’s disrespect for human life and breaches of […]
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Significance of Dockworkers’ Refusal to Offload Israeli Cargo
Report by Azad Essa Published here: 15/02/09 11 February, 2009 countercurrents.org When COSATU and its affiliate SATAWU made it clear that their dockworkers would not be offloading the Johanna Russ, in palpable solidarity with the Palestinian people last week, a largely irrelevant port in the Southern tip of Africa called Durban was making history across […]
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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 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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Nearly 200 Faculty Members at U.S. Colleges Endorse Academic Boycott of Israel
Daily news reported by The Chronicle February 18, 2009 A fledgling group calling itself the U.S. Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel now lists 193 faculty members and several student groups at American colleges as endorsing its call for a boycott. David Lloyd, a professor of English at the University of Southern […]
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