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Anti-Israeli Apartheid Week
Though the first Anti-Israeli Apartheid week started on January 31, 2005 in Toronto, the awareness week now commonly kicks off the first week of March. Since then it has spread around the world and is observed in March.
Why Apartheid?
United Nations investigators, human rights activists and critics of Israeli policy have been comparing the treatment of Palestinians comparable to the treatment of black Africans during South African Apartheid for years. Apartheid was originally created as a legal term and involves a list of crimes against humanity.
Carleton University divestment campaign
Two years ago, Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) Carleton launched a campaign to get the Carleton University Pension Fund divested from companies complicit in violations of human rights and international law in Palestine or anywhere else in the world, and to adopt a comprehensive and binding socially responsible investment policy. This campaign, which started simply as a SAIA initiative, has grown into a campus-wide movement, bringing together students, faculty, staff, retirees and alumni.
Omar Barghouti speaks on BDS
Jul 4 2011 - 3:00pm
Jul 4 2011 - 5:00pm
Location
Sandford Fleming Bldg., U of T
1105 Kings College Rd.
TorontoCanada
43° 39' 39.7764" N, 79° 23' 41.6508" W
See map: Google Maps
Join us for a public forum on:
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions:
The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights
Speaker: Omar Barghouti
Contact name:
CAIA
Contact email:
Historic Israeli divestment bill vetoed six days later
On March 18, continuing a long tradition of pioneering human rights campaigns, the Senate of the Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley (ASUC) passed "A Bill In Support of UC DIVESTMENT FROM WAR CRIMES." The historic bill resolves to divest ASUC's assets from two American companies, General Electric and United Technologies, that are "materially and militarily supporting the Israeli government's occupation of the Palestinian territories" -- and to advocate that the UC, with about $135 million invested in companies that profit from Israel's illegal actions in the Occupied Territories, follow suit.
Despite Carleton repression, students launch divestment campaign
SAIA demands that Carleton University immediately divest its stock in BAE Systems, L-3 Communications, Motorola, Northrop Grumman and Tesco, and adopt a socially responsible investment policy.
January 2010, Ottawa, Ontario
More information: http://carleton.saia.ca