-
UC San Diego DIVESTMENT VOTE HAPPENING IN 2 DAYS! HERES WHAT YOU CAN DO! (URGENT ACTION NEEDED!)
As you may or may not have heard, we here at UC San Diego have launched a divestment campaign and resolution to be voted on THIS Wednesday 4/28 on our campus. The opposition have already started in mass mobilizing emails, letter of opposition, petitions, and propaganda campaigns against what we are doing. In order to […]
Continue reading -
Statement from California Faculty Members in Support of SB118
To the ASUC, We the undersigned faculty members from California educational institutions call for reaffirming the ASUC Bill in Support of UC Divestment from War Crimes. We stand united in support of the right of the Palestinian people to be free of the repression and violence that the Israeli military policy is inflicting upon them. […]
Continue reading -
Statement of Support from Nobel Peace Laureates
To the ASUC Senate, We the undersigned Nobel Peace Laureates support your courage and call on you to reaffirm the ASUC Bill in Support of UC Divestment from War Crimes. We stand united in our belief that divesting from companies that provide significant support for the Israeli military provides moral and strategic stewardship of tuition […]
Continue reading -
Divesting from Israel is a Moral Imperative
By Eyad Kishawi “Gilad Shalit” is a recognizable name that rolls easily off the tongues of many Americans. This is a testament to the power of the media, consolidated over the years, and spoon-fed from embedded journalists in Iraq and Afghanistan about what the power structures agree to be in the best interest of the […]
Continue reading -
APN on Criticism of Israel and BDS – New Policy Language
By Lara Friedman on April 23, 2010 10:41 AM APN today released new policy language on the recently increasing growing public criticism of Israel, including the efforts to boycott Israel, divest from it and sanction it (known as the BDS movement). The purpose of the new document is to clarify the often foggy discussion over […]
Continue reading -
“Divestment movements are also gaining steam at the University of Arizona, Brown University…and Georgetown University”
“Cal-Berkeley rallies around divestment vote; other colleges continue BDS movement against Israeli companies” ARAB AMERICAN NEWS (Dearborn, Michigan) April 24-30, 2010 Page 13 “…Divestment movements are also gaining steam at the University of Arizona, Brown University, where noted author Noam Chomsky wrote a letter endorsing Brown Students for Justice in Palestine’s push [for divestment], and […]
Continue reading -
BDS is a long term project with radically transformative potential
by Ahmed Moor on April 22, 2010 I”m grateful to Jerry Haber for taking the time to engage me on the role of “liberal” Zionists in the BDS movement. Sometimes my tone borders on truculence, which is really just impatience. I”m impatient for “liberal” Zionists to discard the “Zionist” and become regular liberals like the […]
Continue reading -
Simon Liebling ’12: The right side of history
By Simon Liebling Opinions Columnist Published: Friday, April 16, 2010 I worry that often lost in the familiar heroic histories of grassroots political movements is the reality that today”s moral consensus on the justice of their causes belies just how unthinkably controversial these movements were back when they were actually being waged. The unanimous agreement […]
Continue reading -
GUSA Roundup: Down on divestment, shoutouts for Voice
Apr 19 2010 Posted by: Galen Weber in News, Vox Populi, tags: Academic Working Groups, Adam Talbot, Ben Bold, Colton Malkerson, Crime, Diversity Requirement, Georgetown Divest!, GUSA, GUSA Roundup, Jackson Perry, Nick Troiano, Safety, Sexual Assault The majority of this week”s meeting of the Georgetown University Student Association Senate was spent considering the arguments of […]
Continue reading -
Bill Would Pave the Way to Peace
By Rick Sterling Special to the Daily Cal Friday, April 23, 2010 As a 21-year veteran UC Berkeley staff member, I was pleased to see the ASUC resolution calling for divestment from companies profiting from war crimes in general and Israeli war crimes in particular. As they debate overturning the veto and restoring the resolution, […]
Continue reading