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ASUC Bill Opposes UC Investment in Israel
Spectators attend the ASUC Senate meeting Wednesday night at which a bill urging UC divestment in companies that have provided Israel with materials used in alleged war crimes was considered. By Allie Bidwell Contributing Writer Thursday, March 18, 2010 The ASUC Senate considered a bill Wednesday night urging the University of California to divest from […]
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UC Berkeley Student Senate Passes Divestment Bill
[Download Text of resolution below] – For the first time in the University of California history, the UC Berkeley Student Senate has approved a bill to divest from two US companies in response to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and to Israel”s siege and bombardment of the Gaza Strip. The Senate bill directs both […]
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“Week against Israeli Apartheid” at the AUB campus in Beirut
Film screenings, poetry readings, debates, workshops, roundtables, conferences and concert … that was the agenda of the Week against Israeli Apartheid held from March 1 to March 6 in several cities worldwide and for the first time in the Lebanese capital, at the American University of Beirut. For five days, these activities have sought to […]
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PROJECT: Boycott, Divest, Sanction Published as a supplement to al-Akhbar newspaper, Thursday, February 25, 2010
Objective: Jamaa al-Yad is a cultural association the aim of which is the research, implementation, dissemination, and reestablishment of various cultural manifestations including but not limited to craft, design, and art, by focusing on the local, vernacular, indigenous, and popular, using methodologies and means that ideologically reflect models of collaboration, co-operation, and communality, in the […]
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Size doesn’t matter …but apartheid does
March 2, 2010 Link newspaper Concordia University, by Aaron Lakoff The sixth annual Israeli Apartheid Week is back again in Montreal, and will be featuring events on three campuses in the city from March 4 to 11. Every year for the last six years, many cities (43 cities participated last year) around the world join […]
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Universities across the globe mark Israeli Apartheid Week
By Danna Harman, Haaretz Correspondent in Europe LONDON – A filmmaker, anthropologist and economic researcher are among those headlining events marking what pro-Palestinian organizers have declared as “Israeli Apartheid Week” – and all three speakers are Israeli. University campuses in more than 40 cities around the world are marking the week with lectures, films, multimedia […]
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Building international solidarity during Israeli Apartheid Week
Ilaria Giglioli, The Electronic Intifada, 1 March 2010 In March 2005, a group of activists from the Arab Student Collective at the University of Toronto launched the first Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW). The aim of the week was two-fold. On one hand, it sought to break the wall of silence and misrepresentation around what was […]
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Carleton students launch divestment campaign
February 24th, 2010 view Carleton University divestment campaign video on-line Carleton students have released a report detailing how the Carleton University Pension fund invests in companies involved in violations of human rights and of international law. The report was created by Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA Carleton), who are launching a campaign to end Carleton”s […]
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University of Michigan-Dearborn Student Government Passes Divestment Resolution
Thursday, 25 February 2010 University of Michigan – Dearborn Student Government General Assembly Resolution # 2010-003 Whereas, this wise body has been known to be one of strong moral and social conscience and has in the past supported justice and international law, and Whereas, U.N General Assembly Resolution 194 resolves that the Holy Places – […]
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UA: An honorable history of divestment
By Gabriel Schivone Published: Thursday, February 4, 2010 After an intensive anti-sweatshop campaign last spring led by students in the Sweatshop-Free Coalition and University Community for Human Rights, President Robert Shelton had the UA divest our financial holdings in the Russell Corporation due to the company”s singularly cruel labor abuses in its factories in Honduras. […]
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