US Bank To Stop Funding Oil & Gas Pipelines Amid Calls For Divestment

This past week, thousands of people held over 260 events in over 45 countries on six continents, during the Global Divestment Mobilization.

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Protesters against the Dakota Access Pipeline rappel from the catwalk in U.S. Bank Stadium during the first half of an NFL football game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Chicago Bears, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017, in Minneapolis. (AP/Andy Clayton-King)

With the global divestment movement expanding exponentially comes a new victory: U.S. Bank, one of the largest in the United States, announced last month that it will be excluding gas and oil pipelines from their project financing, making it the first major U.S. bank to take a step toward such a climate change policy. While U.S. Bank renewed its

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Senate Dems Join Republicans In Criminalizing Boycotting Israel

The bipartisan bill is the latest attack on the growing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement in solidarity with civil society in Palestine.

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By teleSUR
Protesters demonstrate against a state-sanctioned backlash against the movement for Palestinian human rights after Gov. Cuomo signed a McCarthyite executive order requiring state agencies to divest from organizations that support the Palestinian call to boycott companies profiting from, or cultural or academic institutions complicit in, Israel's oppression of the Palestinian people. (Photo: Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/ Sipa via AP)

(REPORT) --- On Tuesday, eight Democratic senators joined former Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio in introducing a Senate bill attacking the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, BDS, which aims at ending the illegal occupation of Palestine and ongoing violations of human rights by Israeli authorities. Rubio said the bill,

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Britain’s Largest Student Union Endorses Boycotting Israel

According to activists, the campaign at Manchester “aims to connect our university to this global movement for justice and equality, and calls on the university administration to end its ties with businesses and institutions that are particularly complicit in violations of Palestinian human rights.”

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By Middle East Monitor
Image of students celebrating after the University of Manchester’s Student Union Senate voted to pass a motion in support of BDS on 11th December 2016 [@IsraelWC/Facebook]

The largest student union in Britain has officially endorsed the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, in a significant success for Palestine solidarity activists. The University of Manchester’s Student Union Senate voted last Thursday to pass a motion in support of BDS. The motion won the backing of 60 per cent of the SU Senate,

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Evangelical Lutheran Church In America Becomes 9th Denomination To Divest From Israel

The church also passed a resolution demanding an end to U.S. aid to Israel until Israel halts construction on illegal settlements in occupied Palestine.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell

AUSTIN, Texas --- On Saturday, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America became the ninth Christian denomination in the United States to vote for divestment from Israel. The resolution, which the ECLA calls a “memorial,” requires the church to end its current investments in companies that support Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine and to

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Boycott On Aisle Three: Avoid These 6 Products That Support Israeli Apartheid

From hummus to feta cheese to dates, your grocery list can be a means of supporting the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
Israeli dates in a grocery store marked with the yellow boycott stickers.

AUSTIN, Texas --- The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, which supports an end to Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine, is growing fast, in part because of how easy it is for people to participate. One of the simplest ways to support BDS is by making the right choices at the grocery store. More Americans than ever support

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Harvard Embattled As Students, Faculty, & Alumni Join Forces For Divestment

‘Unless and until institutions like Harvard act to stigmatize the root causes of global warming, we will remain addicted to a system of energy production and economic injustice that guarantees catastrophe.’

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By Jon Queally
Harvard

The suit charges that the Harvard Corporation is breaching its duties under its charter by investing in fossil fuel companies.  Photo: Harvard Climate Justice Coalition The administration of one of the world's most elite higher education institutions has called the intensified tactics of its students a form of "coercive" protest and lawyers

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