• Radio interview features Lisa Taraki and Omar Barghouti on academic boycott

    Posted on September 21, 2015

    SWANA REGION RADIO Voices from Kolkota to Casablanca Voices of struggle, Voices for change Monday, 21 September 2015, 3:30-4:00 PM “¨”¨KPFK/Pacifica Radio 90.7 fm, Los Angeles Streaming at kpfk.org and available on audio archive for 90 days  Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) An interview with co-founders of the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel From its inception in 2004 […]

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  • Remi Kanazi’s new book out now: Before the Next Bomb Drops

    Posted on September 18, 2015

    USACBI Organizing Collective member, poet and writer Remi Kanazi’s second collection of poetry, Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine, was released on September 15 by Haymarket Books; it is available for order on Haymarket’s site: http://bit.ly/1GTcm4v It is also available on Amazon, including Kindle, in the US and globally: http://amzn.to/1IFFKqe Kanazi will be doing a 100-stop US/Canada […]

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  • Labor Boycott of Israel: Michael Letwin on UE’s BDS Resolution

    Posted on September 18, 2015

    At its its national convention in Baltimore this August, UE, the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers endorsed the worldwide BDS movement – Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions – to pressure Israel to end its apartheid over the Palestinians just as similar tactics helped to end South African apartheid in the 1980s. UE represents more than 30,000 […]

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  • Electronic Intifada: Why is Pharrell Williams promoting retailer of Israeli goods?

    Posted on August 10, 2015

    The following article at Electronic Intifada by writer and activist Adri Nieuwhof covers the South African campaign to #BoycottWoolworths  and the calls to Pharrell Williams by BDS South Africa and USACBI to cancel his upcoming concert in Tel Aviv and end his promotional sponsorship with Woolworths. To read – and join – USACBI’s open letter to […]

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  • Audio: USACBI’s David Lloyd on academic boycott and the Steven Salaita case

    Posted on September 14, 2014

    David Lloyd, professor at the University of California at Riverside, and member of the USACBI Organizing Committee, was interviewed on two radio shows on September 12, speaking on the academic boycott and the case of fellow USACBI OC member and targeted Palestinian American scholar Steven Salaita: KDVS Speaking in Tongues, with Richard Estes, host – […]

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  • Critical Ethnic Studies Association passes BDS resolution supporting academic boycott

    Posted on July 18, 2014

    On July 18, 2014, the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, joining academic associations like the American Studies Association, the Association for Asian American Studies, and the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, passed an important resolution endorsing the academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions. Thanks and salutes to CESA for their strong resolution and refusal to […]

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  • Articles on the ASA Academic Boycott Resolution – The Taboo on Boycotting Israel has Been Broken & More

    Posted on November 26, 2013

    Other articles on the American Studies Association boycott resolution presented this past ASA conference:  Academics should boycott Israel: Growing movement takes next step | Steven Salaita, Salon American Studies Association national council endorses academic boycott of Israel | Alex Kane, Mondoweiss Toward an Ethic of Legitimate Dissent: Academic Boycott at the American Studies Association | […]

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  • African Americans Affirming the Jim Crow analogy in Palestine/Israel

    Posted on July 1, 2013

    Via US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation: On May 29th, novelist Alice Walker issued an open letter calling upon Alicia Keys to cancel her scheduled concert in Israel. The letter has created an immense stir, as those who wish to ignore the situation facing the Palestinians hasten to draw a false wall between the experiences of […]

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  • USACBI Statement of Support for the Association for Asian American Studies

    Posted on April 26, 2013

    Please click here to download the AAAS Boycott Resolution, passed at the 2013 AAAS Annual Conference. We in the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) congratulate the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) for their historic and principled decision to support the boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The resolution that […]

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  • AAAS votes in historic decision to support boycott of Israeli academic institutions

    Posted on April 21, 2013

    The General Membership of the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) just voted (at their annual meeting taking place this weekend in Seattle) for a resolution in support of the boycott of Israeli academic institutions and in solidarity with the world-wide movement responding to this call from Palestinian civil society. AAAS is the FIRST academic […]

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