UMASS BOSTON STUDENT SENATE PASSES RESOLUTION CALLING FOR DIVESTMENT FROM BOEING CITING BOEING’S INVOLVEMENT IN ISRAEL’S OPERATION CAST LEAD, STUDENT-LED COALITION DEMANDS DIVESTMENT FROM BOEING AND OTHER COMPANIES PROFITING FROM WAR CRIMES & HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS University of Massachusetts Boston, MA, April 18th, 2012 - The UMass Boston Undergraduate Student Government unanimously passed a bill demanding that the [...]
USACBI, the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, sends hearty congratulations to the graduate students at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, for their March 21 and 22 landmark vote to divest from the Israeli occupation of Palestine. We also congratulate SAIA (Students Against Israeli Apartheid) for their ongoing work to build a campus divestment movement at [...]
Students Against Israeli Apartheid at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada led a protest at Carleton University on November 7, 2011 against the University’s official sponsorship of a fundraising dinner for the Jewish National Fund, including Carleton’s president, Roseann Runte, serving as honourary co-chair of the dinner. The students pointed to the JNF’s major role in [...]
House Representative Gary Ackerman (D-NY), ranking Democrat on the House Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, recently issued a statement attacking the actions of over one hundred New York University (NYU) professors. The professors have signed an Open Letter to TIAA-CREF, drafted by Students for Justice in Palestine at NYU (SJP @ NYU), calling for [...]
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 [...]
Watch our flashmob video: Take action! Sign the petition asking TIAA-CREF to divest from the Israeli Occupation: http://bit.ly/BDStcref Tell TIAA-CREF (@TC_Talks) that socially responsible investment cannot include the funding of weapons and weaponized bulldozers! TIAA-CREF invests in companies known to provide supplies and services to help maintain Israeli occupation, including Caterpillar, Elbit Systems, Northrop Grumman, Motorola [...]
Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine 28.6.2011 We Palestinians of Gaza want to live at liberty to meet Palestinian friends or family from Tulkarm, Jerusalem or Nazareth; we want to have the right to travel and move freely. We want to live without fear of another bombing campaign that leaves hundreds of our children dead and many [...]
The following translation of the Anti-BDS Bill in the Israeli Knesset was provided by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel: Proposed Bill to Prevent Harm to the State of Israel by Means of Boycott, 27 June 2011 Definition: 1. In this bill, “a boycott against the State of Israel” – deliberately avoiding economic, cultural [...]
The following call for BDS at Earlham was circulated by Earlham Alumni Against Apartheid: At Earlham College, a group students supported by alumni are calling on their college to join the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israeli apartheid. BDS Earlham and Earlham Alumni Against Apartheid are asking you to join their campaign by signing their [...]
From the Sacramento Co-Op Owners for Democracy and Human Rights: Over 50 members of the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op serenaded shoppers on the public sidewalk next to the Co-op on Friday afternoon, June 3, with back-up guitar, base and tambourines. Holding colorful balloons and signs, members sang, “This is my coop; This is your Co-op” [...]