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SAVE THE DATE FOR THE FIRST NATIONAL JEWISH ANTI-ZIONIST GATHERING
A PRECURSOR TO THE 2010 UNITED STATES SOCIAL FORUM June 19-22, 2010, Detroit, MI The 2010 US Social Forum comes at a critical time for the Palestine Solidarity Movement. The United States is moving towards another plan for “peace” in Israel/Palestine that will reject true demands for justice in the region. On the other hand, […]
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Berkeley joins divestment movements at University of Michigan, Wisconsin, Sussex, & Wayne State University.
“Cal-Berkeley students pass divestment, fight veto” ARAB AMERICAN NEWS (Dearborn, Michigan) March 27, 2010 Page 16. [This article documents the spread of campus movements to dis-invest from the Israeli occupation of Palestine:] “…One such campus is the University of California-Berkeley, one of the most prominent public research universities in the United States according to many […]
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Swedish Pension Funds exclude Elbit
The First, Second, Third and Fourth National Pension Fund (AP1, AP2, AP3 and AP4) have decided to exclude the Israeli defense company Elbit Systems from their investments. The dialogue of the AP funds joint Ethical Council with Elbit Systems has not produced the desired results, according to a press release. The reason that Elbit Systems, […]
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Land Day Commemorations in France in Support of BDS
On March 30, Palestinian Land Day, there will be a large rally of all the people who refuse the repression and threats from our government against the people who join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Campaign. In less than three weeks, 2000 people have signed a BDS manifesto (see below for a translation into […]
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An Open Letter to the President of UC Berkeley Student Senate
Besieged Gaza March 26, 2010 From under a hermetic siege that has entered its third annum, from the largest refugee camp in the world, from the Gaza Bantustan, we write to you as student representatives of all academic institutions in the Gaza Strip. We are distraught and disappointed by the presidential veto of the Senate […]
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Interview with UC Berkeley Divestment Organizers
We will also speak with two University of California, Berkeley students involved in the movement to get UC to divest from U.S. companies which profit from Israeli war crimes. Economics PHD candidate Emiliano Huett-Vaugn, who co-authored a Divestment Bill, which passed last week by the Student Senate.
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Basta: After veto of Berkeley divestment, the movement grows
The following is a communique from Berkeley SJP regarding ASUC President Will Smelko”s decision to veto last week”s successful divestment bill. March 25, 2010 Last night, UC Berkeley ASUC president Will Smelko vetoed “A Bill in Support of UC Divestment from War Crimes,” a bill which called on the ASUC and the UC to divest […]
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Will Smelko’s veto on SB118 – where do we go from here
Last night, UC Berkeley ASUC President Will Smelko vetoed ‘A Bill in Support of UC Divestment From War Crimes,’ a bill which called on the ASUC and the UC to divest funds from companies enabling war crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, among other places, and which was passed by the student senate in a […]
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In the Final Analysis
By Sana A recent “policy paper,” written by McGill History professor Gil Troy and AICE”s Mitchell Bard, has been aggressively circulating around the internet. Supposedly to be presented at a meeting of Jewish scholars and activists in Israel, it condemns the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement as a “full-blown political, economic, cultural, ideological struggle […]
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Urgent Plea from UC Berkeley Students for Justice in Palestine: Support Divestment
From UC Berkeley Students for Justice in Palestine: Thank you so much to all of the people who joined us on Wednesday night to support the ASUC bill urging divestment from companies that directly fund Israel’s illegal occupation and war crimes (General Electric and United Technologies), and to all who sent letters in support of […]
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