Students at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, shut down the board of governors meeting when they were excluded from the forum. The action was part of a divestment campaign focused on the university’s pension fund. Students demanded that the university divest from companies complicit in the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
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Students across US and Canada vote for divestment
More than 30 US student associations and 11 Canadian student associations have voted to support divestment from Israeli apartheid.
Campaigns calling on universities to divest from companies that profit from Israeli human rights violations have become one of the biggest issues on US and Canadian university campuses.
Resolutions in support of divestment have been passed at Stanford University, Princeton University and 7 of the 9 campuses of the University of California.
In Canada, divestment resolutions have been passed at universities including the University of Toronto, York University and the University of Regina.
So far one US university, the University of Hampshire, has responded to student pressure by divesting from Israeli occupation. The university divested from 6 firms over their role in Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
Thousands of artists in Canada, Ireland, UK and Switzerland join cultural boycott
Musicians Brian Eno, Kate Tempest and Jarvis Cocker, playwright Caryl Churchill and Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft are among 1,000 UK artists to support a cultural boycott declaration launched in February 2015.
The 500 signatories to Irish Artists’ Pledge to Boycott Israel include actor Stephen Rea, writer Seamus Deane and actor Sinéad Cusack.
Similar pledges have also been organised in the US, Montreal and Switzerland.
Other high profile supporters of the cultural boycott include Judith Butler, Henning Mankell, Mira Nair, Chuck D and Dead Prez.