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Final UCSD Divestment Vote Wednesday, 5 May
The final vote on divestment will be Wednesday, 5 May at the AS Council meeting. When: Wednesday, 5 May at 6pm Where: UCSD Price Center Ballroom East Address: 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92192 Directions to Parking & UCSD Map to Price Center
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Endorsements for UCSD Divestment
UCSD Student Organizations: Amnesty International Arab Student Union Black Student Union College Democrats Food Co-Op Forward Haiti Emergence Action Team Muslim Student Association One Earth One Justice Schools for Schools Student Sustainability Collective Students Take Action Now Darfur Students for Barack Obama Students for Civil Rights in Iran Students for Justice in Palestine UCSD Faculty […]
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MIT student introduces internet boycott platform
An MIT grad student has introduced a new internet platform he hopes will help activists deepen and expand their campaigns to boycott products made in Israeli settlements. The website, Boycott Toolkit, is a resource where users can generate lists of specific products and companies targeted for boycotts. Right now the site lists a raft of […]
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At Berkeley, moral victory despite divestment vote loss
Dina Omar, The Electronic Intifada, 3 May 2010 On 28 April, University of California, Berkeley’s Student Senate narrowly missed an historic opportunity to divest its funds from United Technologies and General Electric which manufacture F-16 jets and Apache helicopters — weapons sold to the Israeli military and used against civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. […]
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Historic Opportunity at Hand
By Anfal Awwadh, Benjamin Balthaser, Oliver Burchill, Amar Dalmar and Aaron Dimsdale Task Force, A.S. Divestment Resolution2009 We have a historic opportunity to stop our university from contributing to the violation of human rights. This is a controversial issue, as all movements for social justice are. But let us be clear: The controversy surrounding the […]
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PSAF greets Berkeley students’ divestment struggle
The Progressive Student Action Front in Gaza Palestine, issued the following statement to the students of the University of California – Berkeley in the United States, where their university’s student government was considering a bill on April 28, 2010 to call upon the university to divest its holdings in two arms manufacturers that sell weapons […]
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A surgical strike on Israel’s wallet could end the occupation
By Matthew A. Taylor What on earth will it take to persuade Israel to leave the occupied territories? Sometimes it seems as if nothing will work. For eight years now, the Arab Peace Initiative, which early Zionist leaders would have seen as a dream-come-true, has been collecting dust. Its terms include two states based on […]
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Divestment Coalition Receives Negative Response from GU
By Elizabeth Rowe | Apr 30 2010 The administration dealt a blow to Georgetown, Divest!, a coalition of students on campus that wants the university to divest from companies that may profit from human rights abuses in Israel and Palestine, on Tuesday. Assistant Vice President for Business Policy and Planning LaMarr Billups wrote a letter […]
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