‘Like a war zone’: Emory University grapples with fallout from police response to protest

A peaceful action at the school near Atlanta, Georgia, was met with violent use of force and 28 arrests of students and faculty

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"Students pushing for divestment [..] can no longer argue against the malfeasance of a handful of nefarious companies. They must also confront the overarching system of #FinanceCapital guiding the ways their #universities now accrue value."

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/can-divestment-campaigns-still-work/
#BDS #BoycottDivestmentAndSanctions #Palestine #Gaza #PalestineSolidarity #StudentActivism #CampusActivism #UniversityEndowments #financialization #USPol

Can Divestment Campaigns Still Work? - Boston Review

Decades after apartheid South Africa, student activists face a new obstacle: the financialization of university endowments.

Boston Review

"...#BDS deserves to be seen as a people’s foreign policy, or diplomacy from below – and if it gets strong enough, it will eventually force governments to impose sanctions from above, as South Africa is attempting to do. Which is clearly the only force that can get #Israel off its current path."

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/10/only-outside-pressure-can-stop-israels-war-crimes

#IsraelPalestine #Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #Gaza #Palestinians #BoycottDivestmentAndSanctions

We have a tool to stop Israel’s war crimes: BDS

In 2005, Palestinians called on the world to boycott Israel until it complied with international law. What if we had listened?

The Guardian