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The MIT Coalition for Palestine and BDS Boston are pleased to announce that the Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has cut its ties with Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems.
We’re back with another session of our University Divestment & Boycott Training Series! This month we’ll hear from divestment campaigners and academic boycott organizers that have led or guided campaigns on campus, as well as the divestment experts at @afsc_org.
RSVP: https://t.co/tAoo928lbC
GEO members overwhelmingly approved a new portfolio and investment policy, making us one of the first unions to divest from apartheid states like Israel and the prison industrial complex.
We are showing that divestment is possible.
Full statement: https://t.co/Ce0Ia15mOE
WATCH our video:
Activists chained themselves at the lobby of @chevron offices in Herzliya, Israel\48 Palestine, demanding the fossil fuel giant stops fueling the genocide in Gaza, Israeli apartheid and climate crisis as part of #BDS movement’s #BoycottChevron Week of Action.
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Today, with colleagues, I introduced legislation to block arms sales to Israel.
Sending more weapons to Netanyahu's extremist government is immoral & illegal: U.S. weapons are responsible for far too many civilian casualties in Gaza.
We must end our complicity in this atrocity.
📍Just now…
The MIT Coalition for Palestine shares a major victory: #MIT Activists end the first American-Israeli weapons manufacturer partnership at a University.
The Scientists Against Genocide Everywhere (SAGE) Movement at MIT continues 🕊️ More at https://t.co/WXEP4RD3AS
📢BREAKING THREAD: In a historic move, the Portland City Council in Maine has unanimously voted to divest all city funds from companies complicit in Israel’s human rights violations against Palestinians.
Over the last few months, students have gained unprecedented achievements in pushing their universities to divest from genocidal Israel’s war machine. Now it’s time to escalate and spread those efforts as far and wide as possible, to university campuses all over the world.
Join us for a back-to-school training session with experts at @afsc_org on how divestment works, what to consider before launching a campaign, and how to win.
This training will be useful for students that are already deep in divestment negotiations as well as for those who haven’t yet launched a divestment campaign.
Israel will receive 120mm high explosive mortar rounds worth $61.1 million from a General Dynamics factory in Quebec, Canada. #GazaGenocide#ArmsEmbargoNow
NEW: Secretary Blinken approved the proposed sale of $20 billion worth of weapons and military equipment to Israel — different packages that include F-15 aircraft, mortars, tank rounds, air-to-air missiles and more per State Dept notices that are just out https://t.co/VUAOvVNjyC
Is @Google lying about its work with the Israeli military? For years, it's claiming that Israel’s @googlecloud “is not directed at highly sensitive, classified, or military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services.” We now know that’s not true. #NoTechForApartheid
We're presenting tomorrow at CA Working Families Party's Discussion on Divestment. Sign up now to leaen how to get your city to #divest for Palestinian rights. https://t.co/Br3Po7UptF
We're presenting tomorrow at CA Working Families Party's Discussion on Divestment. Join us to learn how to get your city to #divest for Paaestinian rights. https://t.co/Br3Po7UptF
Breaking: responding to student demands, SUNY ESF College Foundation is reviewing its investment policy with the goal of creating guidelines for divestment. The College confirmed it holds no direct investments in weapons manufacturers. https://t.co/3zNfLUDaxF
Breaking: the City of Richmond CA just voted to #divest from companies involved in human rights violations of Palestinians, using our data. #BDS#GazaGenocide
Intv today about effort to track Californian companies profiting off Israel’s ongoing siege on Gaza. About a half dozen based or operating here. AFSC’s full int’l list here: https://t.co/s0aFTDjJeT @KQEDnews@afsc_org
There is no world in which the forced famine of 1.1 million people cannot be considered genocide. And that is exactly what we are watching unfold in Gaza now.
We must enforce U.S. laws and halt weapons transfers to the Israeli government to stop an atrocity in the making.