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Rachel Would be Proud
We received the following press release from student activists in Washington. They announced that Evergreen State College students overwhelmingly voted to divest from Israel. Rachel Corrie was a senior at the college when the Israeli army took her life with a Caterpillar bulldozer, as she stood in front of a Palestinian home they wanted to […]
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The Evergreen State College Passes Divestment Campaign
The Resolutions Resolution #1: We, the student body of The Evergreen State College, call on The Evergreen State College Foundation to instate a socially responsible investment policy. To this end, we ask them to divest from companies that profit from Israel”s occupation of Palestine. As members of the Evergreen community, we stand with conscientious Palestinians, […]
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BDS at UC Berkeley: The Campaign, The Vote, and The Veto by Youmna Derby and Dina Omar*
“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation […]
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Protesters Condemn Israeli “Ambassador of Apartheid” Michael Oren
Activists Protest Brandeis Commencement, Jerusalem Day Event at BPL By: Boston BDS Activists Press Contact: Heike Schotten, bdsbostonma[at]gmail.com Waltham, MA, May 25, 2010 – Boston area activists voiced their opposition to Brandeis University”s honoring of Israeli-U.S. Ambassador Michael Oren as this year”s commencement speaker. Standing in solidarity with the more than 150 Brandeis students who […]
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Regents Position on Divestment Off The Mark – Rick Streling
Published in The Daily Californian, May 17, 2010 Editor”s Note: The following is a response to a letter sent out by UC President Mark Yudof, and the Chair and Vice Chair of the UC Regents stating University policy on divestment. Thank you for your letter regarding the debate about divestment from two corporations which supplied […]
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Open Letter to Akiva Tor from an Educated Palestinian American – Dina Omar
Published as a response to Akiva Tor”s article in ZEEK, May 20, 2010 Dear Consul General Tor: Your response to Moshe Yaroni”s essay about the Berkeley divestment discussion is manipulative and threatening. It repeats many distortions that have been thoroughly refuted by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UC Berkeley. Worst of all, however, […]
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The Evergreen State College to Vote on Divesting from Apartheid Israel
Divest @ TESC Kick-Off Tuesday, May 18th 6:30pm Lecture Hall 3 Your vote matters! For the first time our student ballot includes resolutions of international importance. We are calling on Evergreen to adopt a socially responsible investment policy and refuse to do business with Caterpillar – a company that is implicated in grievous human rights […]
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Student council calls on peers to support goods boycott
Nablus – Ma’an – University student councils offered their full support for the Palestinian Authority boycott of settlement goods on Wednesday, vowing to ensure students implement the embargo. Head of the An-Najah University student senate Makram Daraghmeh said all Palestinian universities would organize events and activties in the coming days, aimed at encouraging students to […]
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Students Boycott Apartheid delegation to Palestine 2010
Apply by May 28, 2010! In the summer of 2010, Students Boycott Apartheid (SBA) will run its second delegation to Palestine of university students, faculty, and staff who are committed to supporting the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid. We have been inspired by the growth of powerful […]
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AUB Students Protest Zionist Companies at Career Fair on Campus
Here are the flyers they handed out: Here is one student’s account of the campus response to their protest: I am writing this email in protest of your actions today at the AUB career fair. Several friends and I decided to hand out flyers protesting three companies; Nestle, Veolia and L’Oreal. Many of the students […]
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