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Video of MLK Day protest outside Combined Systems, Inc., in Pennsylvania

Submitted by nora on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 18:13
Reports from yesterday’s protest outside the headquarters of US weapons maker Combined Systems, Inc., which produces tear gas canisters that have killed and injured Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

MLK Day protest at weapons manufacturing company

Submitted by nora on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:56
Activists in Pennsylvania hold a protest outside the headquarters of Combined Systems, Inc., the company that manufactures lethal tear gas canisters used against people from Palestine to Oakland. Adalah-NY has a full-length report on CSI and its domestic and international contracts.

Badil center for residency and refugee rights' response to Israel's racist "citizenship law"

Submitted by nora on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 20:16
Badil center responds to the Israeli high court’s rejection of a challenge to the racist “citizenship law”: “This illustrates once more the Israeli self portrait as an exclusively Jewish state with a different set of rights for its Jewish and non-Jewish (mainly Palestinian) inhabitants.”

BDS roundup: a new year, and new boycott campaigns ahead

Submitted by nora on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 18:55
US boycott campaigners encourage colleagues to refuse complicity with Cornell University’s partnership with Israel’s Technion Institute, Veolia loses yet another contract in London, dozens of musicians refused to perform in Israel in 2011 while the cultural boycott campaign gears up for a new year, and more.

BDS news: Europeans, Moroccans urge Jane Birkin to respect boycott call

Submitted by nora on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 00:30
Boycott activists to French singer-actress Jane Birkin: there is “no balance” with apartheid.

BDS roundup: "Don't put the fruits of apartheid under your Christmas tree!"

Submitted by nora on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 00:08
Holiday shopping-related actions took place around the world as BDS activists encouraged shoppers not to buy Israeli products. And a group in California calls on the state pension fund to investigate its investment ties with Israeli companies and US companies that do business with the Israeli military.

Activists file lawsuit against Minnesota State Board of Investment over Israel bonds

Submitted by nora on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 22:24
Activists with the Minnesota Break the Bonds Campaign have officially filed a lawsuit against the State Board of Investments, demanding that Minnesota divest from Israel’s illegal military occupation activities in Palestine.

Fight continues for academic freedom in the US

Submitted by nora on Thu, 12/15/2011 - 18:25
Professor Terri Ginsberg spoke out to her students about Israel’s policies in Palestine, and lost her job. Seeking justice from the university and the state court system is proving to be an uphill battle, but she’s determined to fight for free speech on US campuses.

Appeal denied in Holy Land Five case

Submitted by nora on Thu, 12/08/2011 - 17:44
After oral arguments for an appeal began several months ago, the Fifth Circuit Court decides to uphold the convictions of Muslim charity workers under the auspices of the draconian Patriot Act and invoking its “material support” clause to criminalize humanitarian aid to Palestinians under Israeli occupation.

Barbra Streisand to perform at Los Angeles fundraiser for Israeli military

Submitted by nora on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 02:19
Streisand and former Israeli military Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi — commander of Israel’s attacks on Gaza in 2008-09 — raise money for occupation soldiers this week in LA.

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