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URGENT ACTION: Support of UC Berkeley student divestment needed
If you have a moment thank the UC Berkeley Senate in their decision to approve the divestment resolution and express support to the President who is going to sign this bill. We need you to SEND LETTERS OF SUPPORT to the Senate as well as the President because they are receiving a LOT of hate […]
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Wave of Divestment Resolutions Destroys Israel’s legitimacy on campus!
Compiled by Blaine Coleman University of California at Berkeley Student Senate votes for divestment against Israeli war crimes UC Berkeley student senate passes divestment resolution Press Release From UC Berkeley SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) March 18, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Download the text of the UC Berkeley Divestment Bill here. For the first […]
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UC Berkeley student senate votes in favor of divestment
Dina Omar, The Electronic Intifada, 19 March 2010 Early yesterday morning, the University of California Berkeley Student Senate (ASUC) passed a bill to divest from companies that provide military support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Debate began the night before at 9:00pm and ended and six hours later when the vote was held at […]
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‘Free Palestine – Boycott Israel’ Protest – Birmingham University March 2010
http://northfieldpatriot.blogspot.com/ Salma Yaqoobs blog said: Protest at visit of the Israeli Deputy Ambassador to Birmingham. The protest assembled at 3pm, at the Muirhead Tower at the University of Birmingham’s Edgbaston Campus. Salma Yaqoob (Respect leader) wrote; “I will be attending and I encourage as many as possible to join me”.
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UC Berkeley student senate passes divestment resolution
Press release from UC Berkeley SJP. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 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 […]
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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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