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Check out this video from Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) at Carleton University in Ottawa. They’ve recently launched a campaign to divest the university’s pension fund from 5 profiteering companies: Motorola, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, L-3 Communications and Tesco supermarkets. They’re also encouraging the university to adopt a Socially Responsible Investment plan.
Read more about their [...]
Here’s an exciting story from Mondoweiss — one that happened in our neck of the woods:
An ad campaign of sorts ran in Berkeley and San Francisco at the end of 2009 drawing attention to Pacific Gas & Electric’s relationship with the Israeli company Solel and the growing BDS movement. Several of PG&E’s “Solar Power” bus [...]
Our friends at the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation have some good news this week: progressive cell phone service provider Credo Mobile has stopped offering Motorola phones to its customers!
Here’s what the US Campaign has to say:
Hang Up On Motorola organizers have been contacting Credo about joining our boycott for over [...]
Labor for Palestine just put out an open letter to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, protesting his speech denouncing the Palestinian BDS movement, and highlighting his own support for the BDS movement of apartheid South Africa.
>> Union members: endorse the letter here!
Here’s an excerpt:
Support for BDS has grown rapidly, especially since December 27, 2008, when Israel [...]
Electronic Intifada has reported on two exciting documents that were released this week: the Kairos Palestine Document and a report from the Alternative Information Center documenting Israeli academic institutions’ role in the ongoing oppression of Palestinians.
Here’s a snippet on the Kairos Palestine Document:
Kairos is an ancient Greek term meaning the right or opportune moment. The [...]
