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Dateline September 6, 2011: Divesting From Israel's Occupation, by Ida Audeh

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Next week, student and local community activists will present a petition to the University of Colorado Board of Regents, urging it to remove from the university's stock portfolio all companies that profit from Israel's occupation of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip. Launched by CU-Divest and signed by more than 2,000 students and human rights activists, the petition states that the university's $1.7 billion investments "may violate the University's commitment to human rights and social justice."

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Article Author Ida Audeh, by CommonDreams.org

 

 

Similar divestment and boycott campaigns are underway in dozens of campuses across the country, following the successful efforts of Hampshire College students in 2009. (The retirement plan giant TIAA-CREF is the focus of a separate national divestment campaign.)

 

 

Click here to read Ms. Audeh's CommonDreams.org article in full.

 

 

 

 

 

I have a law degree (Stanford, 66') but have never practiced. Instead, from 1967 through 1977, I tried to contribute to the revolution in America. As unsuccessful as everyone else over that decade, in 1978 I went to work for the U.S. Forest (more...)
 

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