-Caveat Lector- ISRAELI DIVESTMENT: UC Sudent Movement Underway by Camille T. Taiara San Francisco Bay Guardian UC Berkeley students have launched an Israel divestment campaign targeting the very institution that holds the purse strings to their education: the UC Regents. "The people who run our universities are not just tacitly supporting but are actually benefiting from the exploitation of Palestinians," said Snehal Shigavi, a UC Berkeley graduate student. What UC Berkeley students demand is that the school system pull shares from companies that either have branches or subsidiaries in Israel or do $5 million per year or more in business there. So far 13 such companies have been identified, including General Electric, Raytheon, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Texas Instruments, and AOL Time Warner. Investments in these firms represent at least 11 percent of the UC system's $59 billion investment profile, totaling $6.2 billion - or $1.7 billion more than all direct US federal aid to Israel combined . . . Student activists, who have formed Students for Justice in Palestine, re-created some of [Palestinian] conditions when they set up a mock checkpoint at UC Berkeley's Sather Gate the day Sharon was elected prime minister . . . SJP carried out another action on campus March 6, this time setting up a mock refugee camp. It also began sending delegations to Davis, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles to train other UC students to set up similar movements. More delegations are planned for the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Columbia University, and possibly Harvard University. *********************************** Conference - October 12-14, 2001 "Holding the University Accountable: Divesting from Israeli Apartheid" Sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine University of California - Berkeley More information at: http://www.aztlan.net/divesture.htm . <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
