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MIDEAST: Israel Boycott Movement Gains Momentum
By Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, Mar 3 (IPS) – “Standing United with the People of Gaza” is the theme of this week’s Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), which kicked off in Toronto and another 39 cities across the globe Sunday. A movement to boycott Israeli goods, culture and academic institutions is gaining momentum as Geneva prepares to […]
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Israeli Apartheid Week Launches in Cities Around the World
Posted by RORCoalition on Tue, 03/03/2009 – 10:45 The 5th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week is now taking place across the globe from March 1-8, 2009! Click here to go to the Israeli Apartheid Week Website (www.apartheidweek.org) First launched in Toronto in 2005, IAW has grown to become one of the most important global events in […]
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Columbia University Students’ Palestine Forum launched
We, as Columbia University Students, join the growing number of universities world-wide that are standing up for Palestinians” rights to education, to academic freedom and to self-determination in the face of the Israeli Occupation. We do so in honor of the academic code to which Columbia University is also obligated. In particular, we stand with […]
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Columbia demands justice for Palestine
By David Judd | March 3, 2009 NEW YORK–Students at Columbia University are taking up the fight for Palestinian rights and have begun organizing around a set of demands for the university’s divestment from Israel. The students’ demands, released on March 2, include full disclosure of Columbia’s budget and endowment, a public forum on divestment, […]
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Why We Should All Support Israeli Apartheid Week
The B u l l e t Socialist Project “¢ E-Bulletin No. 190 March 2, 2009 Shourideh Molavi This is the fifth consecutive year of Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW). Launched in Toronto, this week-long initiative hosts a string of lectures, film screenings, panels, demonstrations, cultural performances and other events across campuses and community centers around […]
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Support Hampshire College Divestment
In early February, Hampshire College announced that it was divesting from a mutual fund that included from six corporations supporting Israel’s military occupation – including Motorola and Caterpillar. Now, after attack from Alan Dershowitz and other Zionist activists, Hampshire’s administration has announced that it’s divestment had nothing to do with the Israeli Occupation but rather […]
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A Time To Be Radical
By Nick Juliano Posted: 02/23/2009 Students have historically been at the forefront of progressive causes that challenge the existing political order and criticize inequalities such as racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. In the 1960s, Students for a Democratic Society stood alongside Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. as they addressed injustices of […]
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Power of student action forces university to divest its holdings in major arms companies
Feb 27 2009 by Lisa Jones, South Wales Echo Power of student action forces university to divest its holdings in major arms companies A THREE-DAY sit-in by students protesting against their university”s investment in major arms companies has ended. Cardiff Students Against War yesterday finished its occupation of the Shandon Lecture Theatre in Cardiff University”s […]
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Carleton University Administration violates free expression – bans and confiscates posters of CARLOS LATTUF
Write to Carleton University president to demand the restoration of student rights February 18, 2009* On February 8, Students Against Israeli Apartheid at Carleton University put up 100 posters for “Israeli Apartheid Week”, a series of lectures and public events that will occur on campuses in over 40 cities around the world. On February 9, […]
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Plymouth University Occupied!
Plymouth Occupation | 25.02.2009 10:46 | Around 20 students from the University of Plymouth have occupied room 202 of the Smeaton building, in the middle of campus. Our demands are as follows: 1. That the University of Plymouth issue a statement condemning the recent and continuing atrocities perpetrated by Israel in the Gaza strip. The […]
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