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Peninsula activist to speak on Gaza and ‘Israeli apartheid’
By Charlie Bermant Peninsula Daily News PORT TOWNSEND — Anyone with $2,000 to spend on a vacation has several options, perhaps taking it easy on beaches, climbing mountains or visiting any of the world’s wonders. Or a person could accompany Kit Kittredge of Quilcene on a two-week tour of the Gaza Strip to witness the […]
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By Colonial Design
Ann Laura Stoler | 10 September As someone who has worked for some thirty years as a teacher and student of colonial studies– on comparative colonial situations, colonial histories, and the violent and subtle forms of governance on which colonial regimes rely, it would be difficult not to describe the Israeli state as a colonial […]
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CEO of Israeli Cosmetics Firm Ahava Rattled by Growing Boycott; False Claims Put Out by Company Are Refuted by “˜Stolen Beauty’ Campaign
Contact: Nancy Kricorian, 646-234-8529, codepinknyc[at]gmail.com Rae Abileah, 415-994-1723, Rae[at]codepink.org In a recent, quietly circulated letter from the desk of Yaacov Ellis, CEO of Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories–a company at the center of a growing international boycott campaign–and directed at the company”s retail partners, Ellis deploys specious information about his own company”s business practices, contradictory claims […]
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Israel Divestment Petitions, Press Conference–You can help!
Greetings: The campaign to divest from Israel has begun! Please join us in changing California’s law by helping us circulate a petition measure that would require the state’s two largest pension funds, PERS and STRS, to divest from companies that contribute to the construction of Israeli settlements or provide military equipment to Israel. If you […]
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Think Before You Ink: Boycott Hewlett Packard
For more information on the Boycott HP campaign click here.
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Activists Target Hewlett Packard: “Shoppers, don’t support Israeli Apartheid!”
STOP PRESS…STOP PRESS… On Labor Day, September 6, 2010, about 40 local activists took part in the growing consumer boycott of Israeli goods with lively “back to school” actions at Best Buy and Office Depot in Emeryville. The actions focused on Hewlett Packard (HP), a multinational corporation based in Palo Alto, whose Enterprise Services “Basel […]
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Los Angeles Launches Nation’s First Israel Divestment Campaign
By Linda Milazzo On April 1, 2010, in a no-holds-barred interview with the Christian Science Monitor, Israeli peacemaker Jonathan Ben Artzi, a PhD candidate at Brown University and nephew to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, made clear his belief that equality and social justice will prevail in Israel when the government and people of the […]
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Pete Seeger urged to withdraw support for ethnic cleansers of the JNF
I have to admit I was shocked when I first saw that Pete Seeger was lined up to play a gig for one of the organisations most responsible for the instigation and covering up of zionist ethnic cleansing of the indigenous population of Palestine. Even those artists who play gigs in Israel can usually come […]
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ABQ Says “Sanction Israel”
A half dozen members of the Albuquerque-based grassroots human rights organization–the Coalition to Stop $30 Billion to Israel–explain why they are so pleased to see their billboard message up again calling for the U.S. to be a more honest broker between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority.
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