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SodaStream "treats us like slaves," says Palestinian factory worker

A professionally-produced video recently appeared on YouTube, taking the viewer on a carefully-constructed tour of the production facilities for the Israeli companySodaStream, manufacturer of carbonated drink machines.

The 8.5-minute video focuses on the firm’s factory located in Mishor Adumim, the industrial zone of the illegal Israeli settlement http://elect

May 9, 2013
بواسطة: 
Stephanie Westbrook atElectronic Intifada
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Shareholders File Response to CREF’s Refusal to Allow Vote on Divestment From Companies Supporting Human Rights Abuses

Yesterday, lawyers for the We Divest Coalition filed two letters (see here and here) with the U.S.

April 30, 2013
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We Divest
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BDS Roundup: US scholars group unanimously passes boycott of Israeli institutions

In this latest roundup of news from the global boycott, divestment and sanctions movement:

- Association for Asian American Studies in US unanimously approves academic boycott resolution
- Sussex University students pass referenda to continue boycott of Israeli goods, urge administration to boycott Veolia
- Faculty at Columbia University and Barnard College launch divestment campaign
- Belgian students call for academic boycott
- UC Davis to vote on divestment
- Sodastream protest leads to boycott victory at Milan bar
- Melbourne activists hold boycott action against Sodastream

Associatio

April 30, 2013
بواسطة: 
Nora Barrows-Friedman atElectronic Intifada
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Demonstrations across Palestine and international BDS actions mark Palestinian Land Day

treelandday30 March 2013 -- Palestinians are today commemorating with action Land Day, a day in 1976 when Israeli military forces shot and killed six young Palestinian citizens of Israel. These brave youth were among thousands protesting the Israeli government’s expropriation of Palestinian land.

Stop G4S
March 30, 2013
بواسطة: 
Palestinian BDS National Committee
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US Mennonite Church divests from Israeli human rights abuses

MennoniteAKRON, Pa. -- The board of directors of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) U.S. unanimously decided that MCC U.S.

March 26, 2013
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MCC U.S.
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York Federation of Students Endorses BDS Campaign

On March 21st, in an historic vote at the largest students' union in Canada, York University's undergraduate students' union, the York Federation of Students (YFS), voted overwhelmingly in favour of a resolution to endorse the Global Campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid. In passing this BDS resolution, the YFS now joins many student unions around the world, who have all passed similar resolutions.

March 22, 2013
بواسطة: 
SAIA York
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Guerrilla research exposes sponsors of Israeli apartheid

For the last three and a half years the UK-based research cooperative Corporate Watch has been running a project tracking corporate complicity in the occupation of Palestine.

After a research visit to Palestine in 2010, we wrote a handbook for activists who want to take action in line with the Palestinian call for http://electronici

March 20, 2013
بواسطة: 
Therezia Cooper and Tom Anderson atElectronic Intifada
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Palestinian Village Files Complaint to United Nations against Canada

(Bil’in, Palestine) Today, as the United Nations Human Rights Council is set to vote on a resolution calling for UN member states to ensure that their corporations do not conduct activities related to the Israeli settlement enterprise, the Palestinian village of Bil’in announces that it has lodged an individual complaintagainst Canada to the UN Human Rights Committee for its failure to prevent two Canadian corporations from engaging in human rights violations related to settlement construction in Palestine.

The Bil’in Village Council, along with 11 village residents, lodged the complaint unde

March 18, 2013
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The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
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After hard-fought battle, students celebrate divestment vote victory at UC San Diego

After a hard fought battle, Students for Justice in Palestine at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) claimed a major victory last night when the Associated Student Council passed a resolution calling for divestment from companies profiting from Israeli occupation.

The result – 20 in favor, 12 against and 1 abstention – was announced to loud cheers, the video above shows.

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/after-har

March 18, 2013
بواسطة: 
Ali Abunimah atElectronic Initfada
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California BDS debate heats up: Riverside campus passes divestment measure as Stanford rejects the same

The battle over the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement on college campuses heated up again over the past week, with California universities as the focal point.

While a pro-divestment measure failed to pass at Stanford University, a similar call won out last night at the University of California (UC), Riverside. And for the second week in a row, UC San Diego debated divesting from companies implicated in Israeli apartheid, as the bill put it, though the vote was tabled until next week.

March 8, 2013