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At Stanford, Wayne and Howard, campus activists have pushed another round of divestment motions and debates. The huge uproar and discussion created on these campuses last month is an important step in forming a powerful divestment movement. These new developments come just after the international anti-apartheid week which was held at several universities in Canada, the US and the UK.

This new wave of solidarity has the potential not only to drain millions of dollars from the Occupation economy but also to educate a new generation of academics that divestment is the only ethical, responsible and anti-racist answer to apartheid – in South Africa and in Palestine.

On March 16, the Faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences of Howard University voted to endorse a resolution for divestment of Howard University funds from companies supporting the Israeli Occupation. The resolution passed with a large majority, 25 to 2…

At Wayne State University, Anti-Racist Action is in its fifth month of campaigning for divestment. At the meeting of the university’s board of governors on Wednesday, March 21, ARA together with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) have presented two separate divestment motions: one targeting investment in Israel and another one urging Wayne State University to divest from corporations that profited from war including Halliburton, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Company. While both motions have so far failed to be adopted, the discussion is spreading throughout the campus.

Meanwhile, at the University of Michigan Paul Abowd, a LSA senior, raises his voice to call for divestment from the companies that fuel Israeli state terrorism.

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