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USACBI condemns anti-Palestinian criminalization of political expression
(USA, 10/3/11) The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) today joins a growing coalition of civil rights and advocacy organizations around the globe in condemning the shocking verdict in the Irvine 11 trial. On September 23, 2011, ten students were found guilty for exercising their first amendment rights and for […]
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Zdob si Zdub: Don’t Play Apartheid Israel
Republished from Refrain Playing Israel: Lately some musical artists have voiced that they had not heard of the cultural boycott of Israel, or they would have never scheduled to play in Israel. Tuba Skinny, of New Orleans was due to play for the Israeli Red Sea Jazz Festival, and just days before, they cancelled [2] […]
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Call to Action: Boycott the Jerusalem String Quartet North America Tour!
QUARTET FIDDLES WHILE PALESTINE BURNS – BOYCOTT THE JERUSALEM STRING QUARTET! Join a local protest or organize your local action – contact us at usacbi@usacbi.org! The Jerusalem String Quartet is embarking on a North American tour from October 2-16, 2011 (visiting Vancouver, BC; Costa Mesa, CA; Tucson, AZ; Logan, UT; Downers Grove, a Chicago suburb, […]
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Video: Divest for Justice in Palestine
The following video was created by the Minnesota Break the Bonds Campaign to call for divestment from Israel Bonds in Minnesota. Amidst high-level international dialogue regarding Palestinian statehood, Fr. David Smith and activists Susanne Waldorf and Ellen Klemme, members of the Minnesota Break the Bonds Campaign (MN BBC), discuss how Minnesota can respond to Palestinian […]
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Flash Mob calls on Bed Bath and Beyond: Don’t Sell SodaStream!
SodaStream promotes itself as an environmentally friendly and cost-effective alternative to buying soda. But SodaStream is produced in an illegal settlement on stolen Palestinian land with exploited Palestinian labor. Moreover, Israeli settlement industries regularly dump toxic waste into the land and water of nearby villages. This flash mob at El Cerrito, California’s Bed Bath & […]
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Tuba Skinny cancels show at jazz festival in Israel
Published in the Electronic Intifada on August 20, 2011: Tuba Skinny, a traditional jazz and blues band from New Orleans, planned to perform at the Red Sea Jazz Festival in Eilat, Israel on 21 August. The international campaign “Don”t Play Apartheid Israel,” and the Israeli group “Boycott From Within” approached Tuba Skinny with the request […]
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USACBI Action Alert: Tell Interpol to cancel their Israeli performance!
We are asking BDS supporters to get the word out and tell Interpol, an American post-punk band, to cancel their late August performance in Israel! Tweet your BDS message, post it to their Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/interpol or send them an email (below) Like and post to the Interpol Don’t Play Apartheid Israel Facebook Page Use the sample […]
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BDS Brides boycott Ahava and SodaStream
In August 2011, CODEPINK: Women For Peace organized a group of “BDS Brides” to protest at Bed Bath and Beyond, about the company’s stocking of SodaStream and Ahava, Israeli products made in settlements in the West Bank. The “BDS Brides” pledge to boycott Bed Bath and Beyond, and its bridal registry, until it stops stocking […]
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Kali Akuno: The Black Liberation Movement and Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions: Lessons and Applications for the Palestinian Liberation Movement
The following article was published on Navigating the Storm on August 8, 2011: The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions or BDS movement, launched in 2005 to uproot the zionist settler-colonial project and dismantle the Israeli apartheid state following the various setbacks to the Palestinian liberation movement stemming from the Oslo accords, is rapidly growing into […]
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Open call to Wikimania: “˜Edit’ occupation and apartheid out of Palestine!
The Boycott National Committee issued the following open call to Wikimania. See USACBI’s Twitter call to action: Occupied Palestine– Wikimania”s decision to hold its annual conference this August in Israel despite its ongoing occupation, colonialism and apartheid can only be seen by Palestinians and international supporters of a just peace as feeding Israel”s impunity and […]
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