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Across the country, campuses will be the site of actions on November 13, 2002, to raise awareness about the Palestinian struggle and call for divestment and boycott from Israel and American corporations that support Israel.
- University of Michigan
- University of Washington
- Rutgers University
- University of Maryland
- DePaul University
- Yale University
- The University of Pennsylvania
- The University of California at Davis
- The University of California at Berkeley
- Harvard University
- MIT
- The University of Minnesota
- Wayne State University
- Michigan State University
- University of Wisconsin at Madison
- State University of New York at Albany
- San Francisco State University
- Eastern Michigan University
- Case Western University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Columbia University
- The University of Massachusetts
- California State University at Sacramento
- Henry Ford Community College
- Washington University at St. Louis
- Virginia Commonwealth University
Students at Michigan will hold a 24-hour protest dramatizing the Palestinian experience, from dispossession, to refugee camps, to occupation, to struggle, to eventual peace and victory, in order to raise awareness and promote their campaign for university divestment. Organized by SAFE.
Students at University of Washington will host a documentary film screening, lecture and flyering to highlight the dangers of ethnic cleansing and transfer directed against the Palestinian population in the case of war against Iraq. Sponsored by Hayaat.
Students at Rutgers will protest outside the New Brunswick location of Starbucks Coffee, encouraging passers-by to boycott Starbucks, Israeli goods, and US companies that support the state of Israel. They will then hold an open meeting on Palestine organizing and divestment. Organized by NJ Solidarity.
Students at the University of Maryland will launch their university divestment campaign officially on November 13, with a press conference at 10:00 AM outside of Cole Field House. 24% of Maryland's investments are currently with companies that do substantial business inside the State of Israel; students have compiled a report and a demand for divestment by the University. Organized by Students for Justice in Palestine - Maryland.
Students at DePaul will hold information tables with Palestinian art, news articles and human rights reports in the atrium of the Student Center between 12 noon and 3 pm. Students will be distributing armbands to wear in solidarity with Palestine, and bumper stickers. Organized by DePaul Students for Justice in Palestine.
University of California at Davis
November 13 coincides with student government elections; as such, students at UC Davis will set up tables and walk among students inviting them to sign on to the divestment campaign. They will also host a divestment panel teach-in. Organized by Students for Justice in Palestine.
University of California at Berkeley
Students at Berkeley joined students at San Francisco State University at their event, taking a stand against silencing of the Palestinian voice. Organized by Students for Justice in Palestine.
Students at the University of Minnesota will screen Gaza Strip, a documentary about Palestinian life under occupation.
Students at Wayne State University will host a teach-in at 2 PM at the Bernath Auditorium in UGL. The teach-in, entitled "Is Divestment Anti-Semitic?" will discuss the history of divestment movements, why Israel, and whether divestment is anti-Semitic.Organized by Student Movement for Justice.
University of Wisconsin at Madison
State University of New York at Albany
San Francisco State University
Students at Carnegie
Mellon University will sponsor a talk by Diana Buttu, PLO legal adviser
and media representative at 7:00 PM in Doherty Hall, Room 2210. Organized
by Progressive Students Alliance.
Students at Columbia planned the following event:
SHOULD COLUMBIA INVEST
IN ARMS FOR ISRAEL?
A discussion of social responsibility, human rights, and the new divestment
campaign
WHERE:
Roone Arledge Cinema Space
Lerner Hall
Columbia University
115th and Broadway
WHEN:
Wednesday, November 13, 2002
8 p.m.
Speakers include: Roger Normand, SIPA; Brinkley Messick, Anthropology; Brian Barry, Political Science; Bruce Robbins, English and Comparative Literature; Lila Abu-Lughod, Anthropology and Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Gil Anidjar, MEALAC; Lila Braine, Psychology, Barnard (Emerita); Mahmood Mamdani, Africa Institute and Anthropology.
California State University at Sacramento
Students will be tabling,
passing out info, and have laptops out to show images of the Intifada.
They will invite people to sign the divestment petition, hold signs, and
promote the divestment campaign. Sponsored by Students for Justice in
Palestine.
Students at HFCC will sponsor a panel discussion and a series of videos as well as direct actions designed to highlight to the student population the injustice of life under Israeli occupation.
Washington University at St. Louis
Washington University at St. Louis is hosting Robert Fisk, columnist for the Independent and renowned correspondent about the Middle East, during the day on November 13. The film Gaza Strip will be shown in the evening.
Virginia Commonwealth University
Students at VCU kicked off their divestment campaign:
Virginia Commonwealth University announces divestment campaign
by Free Palestine Now!
6:30pm Wed Nov 13 '02
They issued a press release.
Today students at Virginia Commonwealth University announced the launch of their divestment campaign targeted at the state od Israel. We join together with activists from Universities all over the country in demanding that our campuses DIVEST FROM ISRAEL!!! Organized by Students for Divestment at VCU and Free Palestine Now!