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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 [...]

After building a career on his opposition to racism and oppression, Jello Biafra has unbelievably decided to violate the Palestinian call for a cultural boycott of Israel by performing with his current band, Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine, in Tel Aviv on July 2. See appeals to Jello from Palestinians, solidarity activists, and his fans. [...]

“Sports contact with any country practising apartheid in sports condones and strengthens apartheid” – International Convention Against Apartheid in Sports ON JUNE 22, UEFA President Michel Platini received a letter signed by 42 football clubs and dozens of team captains, managers and sports personalities in Gaza, demanding that European football’s governing body reverse its decision [...]

Will you tell The Doors to cancel their trip to Israel? We are asking BDS supporters to get the word out and tell Ray Manzarek & Robby Krieger of The Doors to cancel their July 5th performance in Israel! See the letter urging them to respect Palestinian rights and not cross the international picket line:http://bit.ly/BDSdoors [...]

30 May 2011 Dear Moby, Knowing that you honor your legacy to Herman Melville, as is evident in your stage name, we call on you to consider what your ancestor wrote in his journal in 1857: “all who cultivate the soil in Palestine are Arabs.”  While in Palestine, his writings illustrated his respect for the [...]

AlQaws, Aswat and Palestinian Queers for BDS have launched an important online campaign to urge the International Gay and Lesbian Youth Organization (IGLYO) to move its General Assembly out of Israel, to stop being an active participant in Israel’s cynical Pinkwashing campaigns, and to stop ignoring Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid policies, and violations of international [...]

The following call for labor signatures to boycott Israel Bonds was launched by Labor for Palestine: Click here to sign on!, or email info@laborforpalestine.net “[All of Palestinian labor] calls on trade unions around the world to actively show solidarity with the Palestinian people by. . . . divesting from Israel Bonds and all Israeli and international [...]

The KPFT BDS Campaign has launched an online petition for BDS at KPFT, the Pacifica Radio outlet in Houston, TX. The KPFT BDS campaign began when the local Israeli consulate was given a show on the station, a station previously rooted in a progressive, public-oriented, pro-peace perspective. Sign the KPFT online petition HERE. Learn more [...]

A call from Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!): PLEASE DISTRIBUTE FAR AND WIDE For the second year in a row, the San Francisco International Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Trans Film Festival has accepted Israeli sponsorship and money.  This is unacceptable to queers who are committed to promoting human rights for all people, not just narrow civil rights for some [...]

USACBI is circulating the following call from activists on Facebook, calling upon Bob Dylan to respect the cultural boycott of Israel. Please participate: Tell Bob Dylan about Occupied Palestine; he is going to play in Tel Aviv on June 20 Facebook group for the campaign: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=191605100881827 Bob Dylan’s Birthday is May 24, 1941. We’re asking [...]