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• Growing Anti-Semitism Causing Concern

  
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  When the subject of anti-Semitism is discussed many areas in the world are more likely to be included before anybody would even think of including the United States as a place of major concern. The most often chosen discussed areas where there is growing anti-Semitism are the Muslim Middle East and North Africa and ...
  5 days ago

• College Divestment Campaigns Creating “Passionate” Environmentalists

  
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  If I was paying $40K / year for my daughter’s tuition at Brown University , I’d be pretty pissed if she told me she was going to become an “environmental activist” when she graduates! Read the Story from NPR . Related articles Brown University Advisory Panel Recommends Divestment From Coal Companies ...
  2 weeks ago

• Energy and Environment News Roundup – 5.9.13

  
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  A daily roundup of the most important energy, environment, and climate news from around the world. EMISSIONS   World Bank President urges carbon price  (via Environmental Leader) EU carbon price crisis spreads to Australia  (via RTCC) EU carbon trading system remains in peril, but rescue attempts is ...
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• End the Charade and Annex Judea Samaria and Jordan Valley

  
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  The time has come to make one last stab at a valid and viable peace with the Palestinians. Present Mahmoud Abbas with that map he has demanded of exactly what Israel envisions the borders for their state of Palestine. The map should be based purely on Israeli desires and interests where Israel retains all of […]
  2 weeks ago

• Energy and Environment News Roundup – 5.6.13

  
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  A daily roundup of the most important energy, environment, and climate news from around the world. TAR SANDS/KEYSTONE XL   Canadian minister takes fight for oil sands crude to Europe  (via Retuers) Oil sands growth will depend on Keystone: Canadian Natural Resources  (via The Globe and Mail) House to ...
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• Looking to the Future and the Completion of the Peace Process

  
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  Reflecting on the entirety of the period after the liberation of Judea, Samaria, Benyamin and reunified Jerusalem I have realized how drastically things have changed since June of 1967. There was great hope and joy that came with the reunification of Jerusalem and having the Old City once again available for Jews and ...
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• Univ. of California as a case study in the impotence of the Divestment ‘movement’

  
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  The following is a guest post by Jon from ‘ Divest This !’ Paraphrasing from one of the greatest responses to criticism ever: I am sitting in the smallest room of my house with the UC Berkeley Student Senate divestment resolution in front of me.  Soon, it shall be behind me. Honestly, ...
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• “As Jews we say ‘Birthright’ trips must end”

  
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  As the summer months approach, thousands of young Jews from more than 60 countries prepare to participate in the Taglit-Birthright program. Since 1999, Birthright has brought 340,000 young Jews to Israel on free ten-day trips. In the midst of the fervor to sign up for this bi-annual program, we have launched the ...
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• New Mexico County Is First In Nation To Ban Fracking & Oil Drilling

  
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  Map of New Mexico high-lighting Mora County (image: public domain ) Mora County, New Mexico, has become the first county in the nation to ban natural gas ‘fracking’ and oil drilling, according to a report on Grist.org. Mora County –currently suffering from a severe drought — is located near Santa Fe and has ...
  3 weeks ago

• Update on the Divestment Movement At Davidson College

  
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  I posted an article last week that was a copy of a Perspectives piece that I published in Davidson Colleges school newspaper in response to a movement on campus that seeks to divest the Colleges endowment from the fossil fuel industry.  Basically, the students involved with this movement would like to see college ...
  3 weeks ago

• Encounters Classes Given Lesson in Activism

  
  The Pioneer | Whitman news, delivered. — Authority: 150
  On Monday, April 29, over 200 members of the Whitman and Walla Walla community came together amidst cries of “Now is the time!” In honor of nationally renowned environmental activist and author Bill McKibben’s campus visit, member of Whitman’s Campus Climate Challenge organized a march around campus and ...
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• Ten U.S. cities pledge to kick fossil fuel investments to the curb

  
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  The cities of San Francisco and Seattle have pulled their money out of fossil fuel companies, taking a climate divestment campaign from college campuses to local government. The campaign group 350.org said on Thursday it had won commitments from a total of 10 cities and towns to divest from 200 of leading fossil fuel ...
  3 weeks ago

• Divestment: Students and Professors Weigh In

  
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  Check out some of the latest news from this week on the issue of divesting Middlebury’s endowment. Seven students spoke on a panel Sunday night to discuss all sides of the issue, while SRI and Divest for Our Future posted a video of faculty support yesterday. Tagged: divestment , endowment
  3 weeks ago

• Coke and Carob

  
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  JULIA Gillard has denounced the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement ahead of anti-Israeli protest action planned at the University of NSW today. BDS action at UNSW has turned ugly, with anti-Semitic and Holocaust-denying material appearing on a Facebook page opposing the opening of a Max Brenner chocolate shop ...
  3 weeks ago

• Energy and Environment News Roundup – 4.30.13

  
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  A daily roundup of the most important energy, environment, and climate news from around the world. EMISSIONS Global carbon dioxide concentration now at highest level in 5 million years  (via USA Today) Global carbon dioxide levels set to pass 400ppm milestone  (via The Guardian) EU uncertainty likely to ...
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• Divestment March Turns Up Heat

  
  The Pioneer | Whitman news, delivered. — Authority: 150
  After listening to a speech by founder of the 350.org organization Bill McKibben, over 200 members of the Whitman community marched around campus chanting slogans in favor of divesting the college’s endowment from fossil fuels. The largest event held so far by Whitman’s divestment movement, the march energized ...
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• Energy and Environment News Roundup – 4.29.13

  
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  A daily roundup of the most important energy, environment, and climate news from around the world. EMISSIONS   China makes strides to curb carbon emissions  (via Navigant Research) GREEN BUSINESS   San Francisco and Seattle lead US cities pulling funds from fossil fuel firms  (via The Guardian) ...
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• Students’ senate votes to divest from companies that aid occupation

  
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  The bill passed by the student union Senate calls for divestment of ASUC and UC assets from any companies that provide support to Israel’s military in Palestine or contribute to the building, maintenance or economic development of Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories. T he ten-hour debate at the ...
  4 weeks ago

• US Colleges Teach America How To Build A Clean Energy Future

  
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  Is America’s most significant lesson on how to combat climate change by building a clean energy economy being taught on our college campuses? College graduation image via Shutterstock Climate issues are clearly important to today’s college students – 62% of all college applicants in a 2013  Princeton ...
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• Individual Blame Won’t Address Environmental Problems

  
  The Pioneer | Whitman news, delivered. — Authority: 150
  I find it hard to recall the moment I first became an environmentalist. It’s not as defined as the instant I became a writer (after reading “The Amber Spyglass” at the age of 11) or an environmental humanities major (about the fifth week of organic chem lab). What I do remember is that when my tender young self ...
  4 weeks ago

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