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Divesting From Injustice: Desmond Tutu’s Open Letter to the UC Berkeley ASUC Senate
Dear Student Leaders at the University of California – Berkeley It was with great joy that I learned of your recent 16-4 vote in support of divesting your university’s money from companies that enable and profit from the injustice of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and violation of Palestinian human rights. Principled stands like […]
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Attack on Berkeley divestment bill dishonest and misleading
Sydney Levy and Yaman Salahi, The Electronic Intifada, 12 April 2010 A coalition of nearly 20 Jewish groups, ranging from the right-wing David Project and the Jewish National Fund to the liberal J Street, is distributing a misleading statement condemning a Student Senate bill at the University of California, Berkeley (“Troubling UC Berkeley Student Senate […]
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Berkeley’s Response to ASUC Presidential Veto of Divestment Senate Bill 118A
Response to ASUC Presidential Veto of Senate Bill 118A UC Berkeley Divestment Task Force UCB Students for Justice in Palestine Introduction The following document is a response to ASUC President Will Smelko”s veto[1] of Senate Bill 118A, “A Bill in Support of ASUC Divestment from War Crimes.” SB 118A called on the UC Berkeley student […]
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Selective Divestment from Companies that Profit from Human Rights Violations in Israel and Palestine: A Campaign to End Apartheid and Promote Peace
39th U.S. President Jimmy Carter, in his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, describes how “Israel”s continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land.” Since the United Nations decided to partition historic Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state in 1947, Israel has […]
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Georgetown University Admits Complete Lack of Oversight of Endowment Investments
Yesterday morning, five members of the Georgetown, Divest! Coalition met with four Georgetown University administrators, Lawrence Kochard, the Chief Investment Officer, LaMarr Billups, Assistant Vice President of Business Policy Planning, Dan Porterfield, Senior Vice President for Strategic Development, and Jeanne Lord, Associate Vice President of Student Affairs. In a meeting that lasted for over an […]
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Coalition Seeks GU Stance on Israeli Human Rights Violations
By Matt Joseloff | Apr 09 2010 Following a growing international movement to curb human rights abuses in Israel and Palestine, students have formed a coalition demanding the university cut any assets traced to companies tied to such violations. Comprised of student groups such as the Georgetown Solidarity Committee and Students for Justice in Palestine, […]
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Georgetown, Divest! says ethics do not inform Georgetown’s investment decisions at all
In a press release provocatively entitled, “Georgetown University Admits Complete Lack of Oversight of Endowment Investments,” members of Georgetown, Divest!, the student coalition seeking University divestment in companies that perpetuate human rights abuses in Israel and Palestine, said that their Friday meeting with administrators revealed to them “that ethical concerns play no role in the […]
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Student group speaks out against profiting from Israel-Palestine conflict
By Crys Guerra and Anne Artley Published: Friday, March 5, 2010 With the hope of building a campus-wide movement, Brown Students for Justice in Palestine held their spring kick-off event, Education without Occupation, on Wednesday, presenting their campaign for divestment from companies profiting from what the group called the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The presentation, […]
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Georgetown University movement for divestment against Israeli Apartheid
“Divestment: A Campaign to End Apartheid and Promote Peace” On the Web site of Georgetown University (Washington, DC), at: http://events.georgetown.edu/events/?Action=View&CalendarID=338&EventID=75970 Event Divestment: A Campaign to End Apartheid and Promote Peace When Tuesday, April 13, 2010 from 8:00pm to 10:00pm Where White-Gravenor Hall 201B Event details: Selective Divestment from Companies that Profit from Human Rights Violations […]
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Israel knows apartheid has no future
Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, The Electronic Intifada, 8 April 2010 After decades of military rule over Palestinians and theft of our land, Israeli leaders are increasingly seeing the writing on the wall. They are at least acknowledging reality, if not yet grappling with the consequences. In 2007, Ehud Olmert, then prime minister, declared: “If the day […]
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