UC Berkeley Divestment

Just to clarify, the text of SB 160 that Judicial Council struck down was really a hypothetical call for the ASUC to divest if it ever found itself invested in companies complicit in Israel's illegal occupation. The ASUC is NOT currently invested in such companies, and the call for the UC Regents to divest university funds still stands.

Solidarity to UC Santa Cruz! Here's the divestment bill they'll be presenting tonight:

UCSC Divestment Resolution - Google Drive

"At its Annual Congress on Thursday 4th April 2013, the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) became the first academic union in Europe to endorse the Palestinian call for an academic boycott of Israel. The motion, which refers to Israel as an “apartheid state”, calls for “all members to cease all cultural and academic collaboration with Israel, including the exchange of scientists, students and academic personalities, as well as all cooperation in research programmes” was passed by a unanimous vote during today’s morning session."

http://www.ipsc.ie/press-releases/teachers-union-of-ireland-calls-for-academic-boycott-of-israel-in-unanimous-vote-first-academic-union-in-europe-to-do-so

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