Divestment Movement Spreads to Hunter College, NYU, UMASS, Columbia University

WE DEMAND DIVESTMENT NOW!
Student Divestment Strategy Day featuring: Abe Greenhouse, Adalah-NY
Matan Cohen, Students for Justice in Palestine, Hampshire College
Maria Lewis, Take Back NYU, New York University
Safia Albaiti, Campus Antiwar Network, UMass-Amherst
Matt Swagler, Columbia Palestine Forum, Columbia University

Since the Israeli invasion of Gaza in December 2008, the divestment movement has gained much needed momentum. Thousands of people in the United States are joining an international movement calling for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions.

Hampshire College became the first university to completely divest from the Israeli occupation. Now academic Zionists are trying to lead a backlash against the Hampshire administration. The University of Rochester, taking inspiration from the student occupation movement in the UK, occupied a campus building, successfully winning demands that have launched a divestment campaign on campus. Students at NYU occupied the student center demanding full budget disclosure and academic aid to Gazans. And in the past few weeks, students at UMass-Amherst and Columbia University have launched divestment campaigns. We expect dozens of campuses to follow suit.

How can we spread the divestment movement on campuses? Which companies should we target? What should our demands be? What tactics are most effective for achieving our demands?

The Campus Antiwar Network would like to call on all student and community organizations currently or interested in working to divest from the Israeli occupation and war profiteers to come together Sunday, March 29th, NOON at Hunter College. As the student movement grows, opposing all U.S. and Israeli led wars in the Middle East, it becomes more and more urgent to form a coordinated national strategy.

We aim to win justice for all people in the Middle East.

All are welcome.

Please e-mail leia.petty@gmail if your student or community organization is interested in participating or endorsing this day.

This day is part of the Campus Antiwar Network East Coast Conference. Please see below for more details.

~ by maloof on March 30, 2009.