Stanford Student Senate Votes to Divest from Occupation of Palestine
This release was updated to reflect that the Chair and Deputy Chair supported a revote for different reasons (2/18/15 – 3:10pm)
This release was updated to reflect that the Chair and Deputy Chair supported a revote for different reasons (2/18/15 – 3:10pm)
Along with more than 600 other fellow artists, we are announcing today that we will not engage in business-as-usual cultural relations with Israel. We will accept neither professional invitations to….
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The following press release was issued by Stanford Out of Occupied Palestine, a coalition of 19 campus organizations including the Black Student Union, MEChA, and Students for Justice in Palestine. Tonight the Stanford Undergraduate Senate will be voting on a resolution calling for divestment from companies violating human rights in occupied Palestine.
[This article is reprinted from an article appearing in the February 2015 edition of the e-bulletin of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies.]
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