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Palestinian Unions Endorse Dockworker Unions’ Call to Action on October 30th
The Palestinian labor movement endorses the call for a day of struggle on October 30th against militarisation and genocide organised by a collective of dockworkers’ unions and calls on all global port, transport and related unions to join it. We also call on grassroots and civil society organizations that can support this mobilization to do so following the unions’ leadership and context-specific directions.
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Palestinian Unions Endorse Dockworker Unions’ Call to Action on October 30th
The Palestinian labor movement endorses the call for a day of struggle on October 30th against militarisation and genocide organised by a collective of dockworkers’ unions and calls on all global port, transport and related unions to join it. We also call on grassroots and civil society organizations that can support this mobilization to do so following the unions’ leadership and context-specific directions.
Just as Boycotts Are Making a Difference for LGBTQ People, Some Lawmakers Want to Shut Them Down
In recent weeks, governors, mayors, major businesses, and entertainers have joined a boycott of North Carolina and Mississippi as a way of protesting...
Simone de Beauvoir Institute’s Statement of Feminist Solidarity with the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement
On February 17, 2016, representatives of the Students, Faculty, Staff, Fellows, and Research Associates of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute (SdBI)...
Shifty antisemitism wars
In 2005, a draft, working definition of antisemitism was circulated by the European Union’s Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC). To the...
University of Chile’s Law Faculty students vote “yes” for BDS
In a referendum held on Monday, 64% of the Law students at the University of Chile voted for cutting the university's ties with Israeli universities...
BNC welcomes Amnesty International position on Right to BDS
Read our recent statement Israel’s legal warfare on BDS fosters repression and McCarthyism across the world here. Palestinian, Israeli and...
Anti-BDS legislation violates free speech
State legislatures across the country are considering a spate of bills that would blacklist companies (and, in the case of New York, individuals)...
Petition: civil liberties in Europe under threat with government attacks on BDS
As Israel is increasingly unable to defend its regime of apartheid and settler colonialism over the Palestinian people and its regular massacres of...
Alliance of Baptists Divests from Companies Profiting from Israel’s Occupation of Palestinian Land
During their National Gathering on April 8-10 in St. Louis, the Alliance of Baptists affirmed the use of nonviolent boycott, divestment, and...
UNOPS becomes third UN agency in Jordan to drop G4S following campaign
News comes as BDS movement marks Palestinian political prisoners day with protest actions against G4S in several countries...
After wins abroad, BDS conference in West Bank sees local traction
By Allison Deger Tamam Abdul, 60, sells Israeli goods in her West Bank supermarket, but she would rather not. “All of the products we receive are...