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Open Letter to Napalm Death: Playing Israel is Supporting Apartheid
USACBI endorses the following effort initiated by the Facebook group Napalm Death: Playing In Israel is Supporting Apartheid: People of conscience across the world are asking the metal band Napalm Death to cancel their June 17, 2011 concert in Tel Aviv, Israel. Only 7 days away, and with limited resources, it is amazing that this […]
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Open letter from Lebanon to Moby: “Come to Lebanon, and not to Israel: “˜Make Love, Fuck War”™!
30 May 2011 Dear Moby, Knowing that you honor your legacy to Herman Melville, as is evident in your stage name, we call on you to consider what your ancestor wrote in his journal in 1857: “all who cultivate the soil in Palestine are Arabs.” While in Palestine, his writings illustrated his respect for the […]
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Kauanui: Letter to IGLYO: No such thing as neutrality.
USACBI advisory board member J. Kehaulani Kauanui wrote the following letter to the International Gay and Lesbian Youth Organization Board of Directors, in response to the call from Palestinian Queer organizations, demanding IGLYO cancel its General Assembly in Israel in December 2011 and stop participating in Israel’s pinkwashing campaign. Her letter is based on the letter […]
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International Gay and Lesbian Youth Organization Out of Israel!
AlQaws, Aswat and Palestinian Queers for BDS have launched an important online campaign to urge the International Gay and Lesbian Youth Organization (IGLYO) to move its General Assembly out of Israel, to stop being an active participant in Israel’s cynical Pinkwashing campaigns, and to stop ignoring Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid policies, and violations of international […]
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August Burns Red Cancel Planned Concert in Israel
A release from the August Burns Red: Please Don’t Play For Apartheid Israel facebook group: PRESS RELEASE (May 30, 2011, 6:00 PM) August Burns Red, a phenomenally popular Christian metalcore band, has just cancelled their June 9 concert in Israel. “They have no plans to reschedule,” says a reliable source that must remain anonymous. They cancelled because […]
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KPFT Boycott Campaign calls for BDS at Houston Pacifica station: Sign Petition
The KPFT BDS Campaign has launched an online petition for BDS at KPFT, the Pacifica Radio outlet in Houston, TX. The KPFT BDS campaign began when the local Israeli consulate was given a show on the station, a station previously rooted in a progressive, public-oriented, pro-peace perspective. Sign the KPFT online petition HERE. Learn more […]
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Take Action: Call on SF International LGBT Film Festival to Reject Israeli Sponsorship
A call from Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!): PLEASE DISTRIBUTE FAR AND WIDE For the second year in a row, the San Francisco International Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Trans Film Festival has accepted Israeli sponsorship and money. This is unacceptable to queers who are committed to promoting human rights for all people, not just narrow civil rights for some […]
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ITT Blog: Bibi and Obama’s Speechifying vs. Global Palestinian Solidarity
by Miles Kampf-Lassin The following article was published on May 25, 2011 on The ITT Blog. A bizarre spectacle played out on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Israel”s Prime Minister, Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, gave anaddress to a joint session which, judging by the non-stop and thunderous ovations, could have easily been mistaken for a campaign rally. […]
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Paul Simon, Don’t Break Cultural Boycott Again!
The following letter to Paul Simon was written by BOYCOTT! Supporting the Palestinian Call from Within: Dear Paul Simon, We are members of BOYCOTT! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within.[1] We were dismayed to read that you’re planning to perform in Israel at the end of this year.[2] In 2005, Palestinian civil society initiated […]
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Dear Coen Brothers, by Tali Shapiro
The following piece by Tali Shapiro was published on Pulse Media on May 16, 2011: Dear Coen Brothers, It”s Nothing Personal (It”s all Political) Ethan and Joel Coen recieve the $1M Dan David Prize on May 15th 2011 at Tel Aviv University. ~ Photo by REUTERS/Amir Cohen On May 15th, while thousands of people were getting […]
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