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The MIT Coalition for Palestine and BDS Boston are pleased to announce that the Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has cut its ties with Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems.

We’re back with another session of our University Divestment & Boycott Training Series! This month we’ll hear from divestment campaigners and academic boycott organizers that have led or guided campaigns on campus, as well as the divestment experts at @afsc_org. RSVP: loom.ly/vD_Qk9M

GEO members overwhelmingly approved a new portfolio and investment policy, making us one of the first unions to divest from apartheid states like Israel and the prison industrial complex. We are showing that divestment is possible. Full statement: bit.ly/GEODivestment

WATCH our video: Activists chained themselves at the lobby of @chevron offices in Herzliya, Israel\48 Palestine, demanding the fossil fuel giant stops fueling the genocide in Gaza, Israeli apartheid and climate crisis as part of #BDS movement’s #BoycottChevron Week of Action. 🧵

Today, with colleagues, I introduced legislation to block arms sales to Israel. Sending more weapons to Netanyahu's extremist government is immoral & illegal: U.S. weapons are responsible for far too many civilian casualties in Gaza. We must end our complicity in this atrocity.

📍Just now… The MIT Coalition for Palestine shares a major victory: #MIT Activists end the first American-Israeli weapons manufacturer partnership at a University. The Scientists Against Genocide Everywhere (SAGE) Movement at MIT continues 🕊️ More at mitsage.org

📢BREAKING THREAD: In a historic move, the Portland City Council in Maine has unanimously voted to divest all city funds from companies complicit in Israel’s human rights violations against Palestinians.

The city of Portland, Maine just voted UNANIMOUSLY to divest from Israel.

Over the last few months, students have gained unprecedented achievements in pushing their universities to divest from genocidal Israel’s  war machine. Now it’s time to escalate and spread those efforts as far and wide as possible, to university campuses all over the world.     Join us for a back-to-school training session with experts at @afsc_org on how divestment works, what to consider before launching a campaign, and how to win.   This training will be useful for students that are already deep in divestment negotiations as well as for those who haven’t yet launched a divestment campaign.

Israel will receive 120mm high explosive mortar rounds worth $61.1 million from a General Dynamics factory in Quebec, Canada. #GazaGenocide #ArmsEmbargoNow

Is @Google lying about its work with the Israeli military? For years, it's claiming that Israel’s @googlecloud “is not directed at highly sensitive, classified, or military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services.” We now know that’s not true. #NoTechForApartheid

BREAKING: @Chevron's global headquarters in California blockaded by activists demanding #FreePalestine and #ClimateJustice during their annual shareholder meeting. #BoycottChevron

We're presenting tomorrow at CA Working Families Party's Discussion on Divestment. Sign up now to leaen how to get your city to #divest for Palestinian rights. mobilize.us/ca-wfp/event/6…

We're presenting tomorrow at CA Working Families Party's Discussion on Divestment. Join us to learn how to get your city to #divest for Paaestinian rights. mobilize.us/ca-wfp/event/6…

Breaking: responding to student demands, SUNY ESF College Foundation is reviewing its investment policy with the goal of creating guidelines for divestment. The College confirmed it holds no direct investments in weapons manufacturers. instagram.com/p/C6ohXuLuLn4/…

Universities and all institutions should withdraw their support of Israeli human rights violations, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

Breaking: the City of Richmond CA just voted to #divest from companies involved in human rights violations of Palestinians, using our data. #BDS #GazaGenocide

Intv today about effort to track Californian companies profiting off Israel’s ongoing siege on Gaza. About a half dozen based or operating here. AFSC’s full int’l list here: afsc.org/companies-2023… @KQEDnews @afsc_org

There is no world in which the forced famine of 1.1 million people cannot be considered genocide. And that is exactly what we are watching unfold in Gaza now. We must enforce U.S. laws and halt weapons transfers to the Israeli government to stop an atrocity in the making.

In January, the Hayward city council voted in favor of divestment from Caterpillar, Chevron, Hyundai and Intel bit.ly/3VrwwOK