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Ban Israel from the London 2012 Olympics
Please sign the petition now: http://www.petitiononline.com/12101982/petition.html To: International Olympics Committee Dear International Olympics Committee (IOC) We, the undersigned citizens of the world, call on the international Olympics Committee to rescind Israel’s participation in the London 2012 Olympics. Israel’s attack on a humanitarian aid fleet on Monday 31 May 2010, its murder of 9 human rights […]
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Jeff Beck: Please support the boycott against apartheid Israel Join
Jeff Beck is scheduled to play Israel on October 5. We would like to persuade him to join the cultural boycott called by the people of Palestine, and prevent apartheid Israel from using his performance as a propaganda coup. For more information see http://pacbi.org Jeff’s blog is at http://www.jeffbeck.com/blog.php if you would like to tell […]
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BDS Success! Leftfield has canceled Heineken Music Conference
One of the 3 at the “Heineken Music Conference” on 31 August in Tel Aviv has CANCELED!!! Now that Leftfield canceled, only 2 are still booked to play there: Rotten/Lydon/PiL and LCD Soundsystem. Leftfield announced this: “Leftfield Tour Unfortunately Leftfield will not be able to perform at the Heineken Music Conference on the 31st August […]
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What happened at TIAA-CREF
Wow! I’m writing you from New York City where I just got back from the TIAA-CREF annual meeting and I’m still a bit overwhelmed by the experience. I can’t tell you what it meant to have each one of you there with us in the room. 15,300 of you to be exact. Each of you […]
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The Olympia Food Co-op Needs Your Support Now!
Just last week the Board of Directors of the Olympia Food Co-op in Olympia, WA, the hometown of Rachel Corrie, took the courageous step of instituting a boycott of Israeli goods, the first grocery boycott of Israel in the US. Already, there is a movement afoot to condemn the Co-op for taking this important stand. […]
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24 hours left: Sign for divestment now!
We have 24 hours before the leadership of TIAA-CREF, one of the largest retirement funds in the world, holds its annual meeting in New York City. We will be there, asking TIAA-CREF to divest from companies such as Veolia, a French company that owns and operates a landfill in the West Bank. This landfill uses […]
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US voters can demand Palestine’s freedom
Cynthia McKinney, The Electronic Intifada, 19 July 2010 In response to Israel’s deadly attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla, more than 800 labor and community activists picketed America’s sixth largest port in Oakland last month. The result was a historic blockade of a large Israeli cargo ship for 24 hours. Across the world, dockworkers and […]
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Stop MUJI Campaign
As the first Japanese retail corporation who advances into Israel, MUJI announced its plan to open a branch(shop with MUJI license) in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem in 2011. We launched “Stop MUJI Campaign” as part of world-wide BDS campaign, to call MUJI to drop the plan which could be a breakthrough for the other Japanese […]
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Call to support PACBI members conference travel expenses
I am forwarding this message from BRICUP – please help if you can. Support is needed for a European initiative. AURDIP, BRICUP”s French sister organisation, is convening a conference on academic boycott in Paris this coming September 25-6. The aim is to bring together the several organisations in Italy, Catalonia, Britain and France now in […]
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Take Action: TIAA-CREF in New York City
Thursday, July 15, 2010 Call for Next Thursday in NYC This coming Tuesday, July 20th, CREF will hold its annual meeting in New York City. This is the one time a year where the leadership of TIAA-CREF sits down with fund participants and listens in person to their concerns. We certainly have a concern about […]
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