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Support the SGA Palestine Resolution (UMass)
Hello everyone, We are writing to you to urge you to consider coming out to support the passing of a resolution on Palestine at UMass’ Student Government’s meeting, Wednesday March 4th in Campus Center room 163C at 7pm. The Campus Antiwar Network is introducing three enactments during this meeting. The first is an enactment demanding […]
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Sustaining global solidarity after Gaza
Jamal Juma’, The Electronic Intifada, 3 March 2009 The Israeli invasion of Gaza, which has now claimed more than 1,400 lives, generated serious popular backlash the world over. The overwhelmingly weak official positions and statements, especially in the Arab world, stood in stark contrast to the outpouring of rage that was witnessed in the streets […]
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Join the Global BDS Action Day 30 March 2009 – A guide to effective action
Posted by StopTheWall on Tue, 03/03/2009 – 07:34 To support the preparation for the first global BDS Action Day called for March 30 2009, the Palestinian National committee for BDS (BNC) has released this short guide for everyone who wants to join the BDS movement. You can find a few simple ideas, a selected list […]
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Columbia University Students’ Palestine Forum launched
We, as Columbia University Students, join the growing number of universities world-wide that are standing up for Palestinians” rights to education, to academic freedom and to self-determination in the face of the Israeli Occupation. We do so in honor of the academic code to which Columbia University is also obligated. In particular, we stand with […]
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Columbia demands justice for Palestine
By David Judd | March 3, 2009 NEW YORK–Students at Columbia University are taking up the fight for Palestinian rights and have begun organizing around a set of demands for the university’s divestment from Israel. The students’ demands, released on March 2, include full disclosure of Columbia’s budget and endowment, a public forum on divestment, […]
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Support Hampshire College Divestment
In early February, Hampshire College announced that it was divesting from a mutual fund that included from six corporations supporting Israel’s military occupation – including Motorola and Caterpillar. Now, after attack from Alan Dershowitz and other Zionist activists, Hampshire’s administration has announced that it’s divestment had nothing to do with the Israeli Occupation but rather […]
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The new movement against Israel’s apartheid
Eric Ruder looks at the new movement taking shape in this country and around the world–for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel and its oppression of the Palestinian people. February 27, 2009 Some 5,000 people turned out in Los Angeles to demonstrate against Israel’s war (David Rapkin | SW) THE RUTHLESS assault on the 1.5 […]
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A Time To Be Radical
By Nick Juliano Posted: 02/23/2009 Students have historically been at the forefront of progressive causes that challenge the existing political order and criticize inequalities such as racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. In the 1960s, Students for a Democratic Society stood alongside Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. as they addressed injustices of […]
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Power of student action forces university to divest its holdings in major arms companies
Feb 27 2009 by Lisa Jones, South Wales Echo Power of student action forces university to divest its holdings in major arms companies A THREE-DAY sit-in by students protesting against their university”s investment in major arms companies has ended. Cardiff Students Against War yesterday finished its occupation of the Shandon Lecture Theatre in Cardiff University”s […]
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Plymouth University Occupied!
Plymouth Occupation | 25.02.2009 10:46 | Around 20 students from the University of Plymouth have occupied room 202 of the Smeaton building, in the middle of campus. Our demands are as follows: 1. That the University of Plymouth issue a statement condemning the recent and continuing atrocities perpetrated by Israel in the Gaza strip. The […]
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