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DePaul students vote to boycott Sabra Hummus

"The vast majority of students who voted in DePaul University’s student election last week were in favor of ending the sale of Sabra hummus in campus dining halls.

CHICAGO, IL (May 22, 2010)—Last week, DePaul University’s Student Government Association  allowed a campus-wide referendum on whether or not Sabra hummus should be replaced with an alternative hummus brand  in campus dining halls. The referendum was presented by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and was the first to be placed on student government election ballot in at least ten years.

May 23, 2011
By: 
DePaul SJP
Analysis

Lessons from Marrickville for BDS Activists

On April 19th, the Marrickville Council in Sydney’s inner west, Australia, met to debate and eventually overturn its four months old motion supporting the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Campaign against apartheid Israel.

May 21, 2011
By: 
Phil Monsour
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Belgian-French bank Dexia considers selling Israeli subsidiary

The arcane world of finance is not something I normally turn to for hope or inspiration.

May 20, 2011
By: 
David Cronin
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Chicago students to participate in historic vote on Sabra hummus referendum in election this week

CHICAGO, IL (May 15, 2010)—Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at DePaul University has been campaigning for the University to stop selling Sabra hummus products on its campuses.

May 16, 2011
By: 
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) DePaul
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Deutsche Bahn pulls out of illegal A1 rail project

Media outlets are today reporting on the successful BDS campaign against Israel's illegal A1 train project.

The Financial Times reports:

Deutsche Bahn, the German railway operator, has pulled out of an Israeli project that cuts through the occupied Palestinian West Bank, after pressure from activists and Berlin.

The move marks a victory for pro-Palestinian groups and their so-called boycott, divestment and sanctions

May 10, 2011
By: 
Michael Deas
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Pro-Palestine Protestors form human wall as CRH involvement with Israel’s illegal wall again a major issue

DUN LAOGHAIRE: On the morning of Wednesday 4th May 2011, over 50 human rights activists supporting the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign formed a ‘h

May 5, 2011
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Jewish group challenges retirement fund TIAA-CREF's attempt to keep Israeli Occupation resolution off ballot

[New York, April 21, 2011] Jewish Voice for Peace today responded to retirement giant TIAA-CREF’s efforts to thwart a shareholder resolution asking it to engage with companies in its portfolio that profit from Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories.

Despite having built a reputation based on commitment to shareholder democracy, TIAA- CREF asked the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) to bar its shareholders from seeing and voting on the shareholder proposal, arguing that the proposal is unnecessary, as it already has a human rights investment policy and would und

May 4, 2011
By: 
Jesse Bacon
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Jewish group challenges retirement fund TIAA-CREF's attempt to keep Israeli Occupation resolution off ballot

[New York, April 21, 2011] Jewish Voice for Peace today responded to retirement giant TIAA-CREF’s efforts to thwart a shareholder resolution asking it to engage with companies in its portfolio that profit from Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories.

Despite having built a reputation based on commitment to shareholder democracy, TIAA- CREF asked the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) to bar its shareholders from seeing and voting on the shareholder proposal, arguing that the proposal is unnecessary, as it already has a human rights investment policy and would und

May 4, 2011
By: 
Jesse Bacon
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Swedish Pension Funds call on Alstom, Veolia, and Motorola to withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territory

The Ethical Council of the four Swedish AP buffer pension funds (AP1, AP2, AP3 and AP4) is calling on US communications giant Motorola Solutions to pull out of the Israeli-occupied territories in the West Bank.

April 27, 2011
By: 
BNC
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Southern African Christians call for BDS

The Palestine Kairos Document was launched in South Africa on Monday evening 4 April 2011, at a meeting of Kairos Southern Africa in Bredell near Johannesburg. The document is called: A moment of truth - A word of faith, hope and love from the heart of the Palestian suffering.

April 14, 2011
By: 
Rev. Moss Ntlha for Kairos South Africa