• USACBI Twitter Alert: Tell Wikimania to “edit” occupation and apartheid out of Palestine!

    Posted on July 27, 2011

    Ask the Wikimedia Foundation to respect the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel by moving its annual international conference, Wikimania 2011 (August 4-7), out of Haifa. See Palestinian organizers’ open call to Wikimedia, then help spread their words far and wide! “ŽTweet your message to the Wikimedia Foundation or post it on Facebook. […]

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  • AUDIO: David Lloyd speaks about academic boycott of Israel

    Posted on July 23, 2011

    USACBI Organizing Collective member David Lloyd, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California, appeared on KPFK’s Radio Intifada on July 21, 2011, discussing the nature, present and future of the BDS movement and the importance of the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. Download the audio clip of the interview.

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  • VIDEO: The future of BDS with USACBI’s Remi Kanazi and Sunaina Maira

    Posted on July 23, 2011

    The following video, filmed at the Al-Awda Convention in Anaheim, California in May 2011, features USACBI Organizing Collective members Remi Kanazi and Dr. Sunaina Maira, in conversation with Ali Abunimah about the future of BDS and the movement. Highly recommended!

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  • USACBI Alert: Will you tell Renée Fleming to cancel her trip to Israel?

    Posted on July 23, 2011

    We are asking BDS supporters to get the word out and tell Renée Fleming, an American soprano, to cancel her July 27th performance in Israel! See the letter from BRICUP urging her to respect Palestinian rights and not cross the international picket line: http://www.bricup.org.uk/#185 or read the letter to Renée from Israeli activists: http://bit.ly/ReneeFleming Tweet your BDS message or […]

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  • Angela Davis and Gina Dent Radio Interview on BDS and Palestine

    Posted on July 18, 2011

    Arab Talk Radio, aired on San Francisco’s KBOO, and co-hosted by USACBI Organizing Collective member Jess Ghannam and Jamal Dajani, interviewed Angela Davis and Gina Dent concerning BDS and their trip to Palestine (see delegation report) on July 14, 2011. The full interview can be listened to or downloaded here: http://www.archive.org/details/PalestineAndBdsWithProfessorsAngelaDavisAndGinaDent

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  • Sign on: Labor Statement Demands Arms Embargo on Israel

    Posted on July 16, 2011

    The following statement calling for an immediate arms embargo on Israel, was published by Labor for Palestine on July 13, 2011. Click here to sign on. Whereas, on May 4, 2011, the Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (PTUC-BDS)specifically called “on trade unions around the world to actively show solidarity with the Palestinian […]

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  • Justice in Palestine: A Call to Action from Indigenous and Women of Color Feminists

    Posted on July 12, 2011

    Between June 14 and June 23, 2011, a delegation of 11 scholars, activists, and artists visited occupied Palestine. As indigenous and women of color feminists involved in multiple social justice struggles, we sought to affirm our association with the growing international movement for a free Palestine. We wanted to see for ourselves the conditions under […]

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  • Sign On Today: Statement Condemning the Anti-BDS “Boycott Law” from US Groups

    Posted on July 12, 2011

    USACBI encourages all organizations in the Palestine solidarity and social justice movements to endorse the following statement condemning the so-called “Boycott Law” passed by the Israeli Knesset seeking to ban Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. Please also see the following statements by: The Palestinian Boycott National Committee (BNC) Boycott from Within Sign on Below! On Monday, […]

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  • Filmmaker Barbara Hammer pulls out of Israeli fellowship

    Posted on July 8, 2011

    The following piece was published on Mondoweiss on July 5, 2011: The groundbreaking experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer has announced that she will refuse an artistic fellowship at the newly created American Academy in Jerusalem. Although the Forward is reporting that she “dropped out of the program yesterday for personal reasons,” her actual reasons are decidedly […]

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  • USACBI Twitter Alert: Will you tell Moby to cancel his trip to Israel?

    Posted on July 8, 2011

    Will you tell Moby to cancel his trip to Israel? We are asking BDS supporters to get the word out and tell electronica musician Moby to cancel his July 12th performance in Israel! See the letter urging him to respect human rights and respect the call from Palestinian civil society to boycott, divest and sanction […]

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