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Support Cal Students for Justice in Palestine
This spring has seen a flurry of divestment activity on campuses across the country. In late February the Student Senate at the University of Michigan – Dearborn passed a resolution calling for the university administration to appoint a committee to investigate the human rights implications of university investments. In March the Associated Students of the […]
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Montreal Israeli Apartheid Week 2010
6th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week summary On behalf of the organizing committee of Israeli Apartheid Week, we would like to thank everyone who attended or supported IAW 2010. This year”s week, the 6th annual edition, was a huge success!?? Panelists and presenters at IAW touched on many important themes throughout the week, such as recent […]
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Berkeley joins divestment movements at University of Michigan, Wisconsin, Sussex, & Wayne State University.
“Cal-Berkeley students pass divestment, fight veto” ARAB AMERICAN NEWS (Dearborn, Michigan) March 27, 2010 Page 16. [This article documents the spread of campus movements to dis-invest from the Israeli occupation of Palestine:] “…One such campus is the University of California-Berkeley, one of the most prominent public research universities in the United States according to many […]
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An Open Letter to the President of UC Berkeley Student Senate
Besieged Gaza March 26, 2010 From under a hermetic siege that has entered its third annum, from the largest refugee camp in the world, from the Gaza Bantustan, we write to you as student representatives of all academic institutions in the Gaza Strip. We are distraught and disappointed by the presidential veto of the Senate […]
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Interview with UC Berkeley Divestment Organizers
We will also speak with two University of California, Berkeley students involved in the movement to get UC to divest from U.S. companies which profit from Israeli war crimes. Economics PHD candidate Emiliano Huett-Vaugn, who co-authored a Divestment Bill, which passed last week by the Student Senate.
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Basta: After veto of Berkeley divestment, the movement grows
The following is a communique from Berkeley SJP regarding ASUC President Will Smelko”s decision to veto last week”s successful divestment bill. March 25, 2010 Last night, UC Berkeley ASUC president Will Smelko vetoed “A Bill in Support of UC Divestment from War Crimes,” a bill which called on the ASUC and the UC to divest […]
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Will Smelko’s veto on SB118 – where do we go from here
Last night, UC Berkeley ASUC President Will Smelko vetoed ‘A Bill in Support of UC Divestment From War Crimes,’ a bill which called on the ASUC and the UC to divest funds from companies enabling war crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, among other places, and which was passed by the student senate in a […]
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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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The BNC Applauds the University of Michigan-Dearborn Student Government for its Decision to Promote Divestment
Palestine, 24 March 2010 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) congratulates the student government of the University of Michigan-Dearborn – an institution with 8,600 enrolled students in metropolitan Detroit – for its efforts to secure the university”s divestment from companies that support the illegal Israeli occupation and oppression of the Palestinian […]
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