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Exciting times.  I was a student at Hampshire College for two years, before transfering to UMASS and graduating in 1981.  Those were the days fighting South African apartheid.   
  
Towards a Divestment Policy that Makes Global Connections
University of Massachusetts/Amherst Calls for Divestiture of Companies that profit from War and Occupation

Emma Rosenthal
 
On March 25, The Student Government [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_Hakrq3nT0

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http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/chaderton020209p.html  
Matos Roy Chaderton, Venezuela’s Ambassador to the Organization of American States, speaks of numerous members of the Jewish community who have supported the struggles of peoples against imperialism and Zionism, and he rejects any attack against the Jewish people.
Watching television footage of one of the necessary and legitimate protests against the Israeli Embassy [...]

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Palestinians Calculating Next Move:
Coexistence with Occupation Not an Option
By Sam Bahour
Palestinians have been historically outmaneuvered, politically neutralized, and made totally dependent on international handouts. Or have they?  A newly released Palestinian strategy document which outlines strategic political options gives witness to a renewed breath of fresh air in the Palestinians’ struggle for freedom and [...]

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i hope jimmy carter reads this article too, since he insists that the
issue of palestinian human rights only exists in the occupied
territories and not within israel.
the construct described in the article is essential to apartheid, which
was a system based on two designs: native american reservations, and
u.s. jim crow (segregation) laws. the reservations (bantustans) address
the issue [...]

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Saturday June 9, 2007 7:30 PM Community/Labor Solidarity Forum United Teachers Los Angeles
Sunday June 10, 2007; Arlington West
<> Saturday, June 9, 2007
Community Solidarity Forum
United Teachers Los Angeles
UTLA Headquarters
The community forum, hosted at UTLA headquarters, was the largest of the events on the Los Angeles leg of the Iraqi Labor Solidarity Tour. In addition to [...]

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Large NGO’s and the Campaign Against Human Rights Activists
What is at stake in UTLA’s capitulation to Zionist pressure to close a meeting and shut down a committee? 
According to an article printed in the Jewish Journal, United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) President, AJ Duffy met for two hours with “leaders of the Jewish community”  including the [...]

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1. Steve Seal’s OFFICIAL public statement, posted to the UTLA web page, regarding the controversy at UTLA- October 11, 2006.
2. Steve Seal’s email to the Human Rights Committee internal list serve, posted on October 6, 2006.
3. The original email Steve Seal sent to the list serve on September 14, 2006, along with SDS/MDS’s request for a meeting space.
 
Please [...]

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“Not at this time.  Not in this place.”  AJ Duffy, regarding the discussion of Palestinian Human Rights.  10/13/06
 
Duffy called an emergency Human Rights Committee meeting, for October 13.  Before the meeting,  several activists, including Human Rights Committee member, David Rapkin, and founding Committee member and UTLA Charter member, Don White, were turned away and told [...]

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“By perpetrating the insidious lie that Israel, where all citizens have equal rights, is no different from the former apartheid regime in South Africa, these activists seek to delegitimize and demonize the Jewish State. In fact, Israel is a democracy that encourages vibrant debate, has a flourishing free press, and is one of the United [...]

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