Californians committed to peace and justice for Palestine-Israel will launch the statewide campaign of California ballot Initiative 10-0020 with a signing ceremony in front of the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles on Wednesday, September 8, 2010. Although California has adopted policies requiring divestment from Sudan, Iran and other nations, this is the first ballot measure in the nation aimed at changing Israeli policies through divestment by State agencies. It directs California’s large public employee and teacher pension funds to be consistent with their responsible investing policies and to divest from companies that violate the human rights of Palestinians. The description provided by the office of the Attorney General when it approved the measure for circulation last week says that the initiative “prohibits state retirement funds from investing in companies engaged in certain business activities in Israel.”

Arctic contaminants threaten polar bears (tags)

Arctic contaminants threaten polar bears

Israel's Bogus Construction Moratorium (tags)

settlement construction continues unabated

Israel Prohibiting the Right to Demonstrate (tags)

Israel attacking peaceful demonstrations

Palestinians Denied Access to Water (tags)

a clear crime against humanity

Recent Israeli Provocations (tags)

recent Israeli violence

Palestinian Detainee Abuse During Operation Cast Lead (tags)

clear evidence of Israeli war crimes

Occupied Palestine: Home Demolitions, Dispossessions and Residency Rights Revoked (tags)

More evidence of Israeli lawlessness

Palestinian Children Under Occupation (tags)

oppressing Palestinian children

Israel's Separation Wall: A Health Hazard (tags)

The Wall is a weapon of mass destruction

Israel's Settlement Enterprise: Longstanding, Outrageous and Illegal (tags)

Israel wants all valued West Bank land

Judaizing Jerusalem (tags)

Israel's aim - make all Jerusalem exclusively Jewish

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 2009 Annual Report (tags)

another year of Israeli crimes

Palestinian Women Under Occupation (tags)

Suffering and heroism for over six decades

Life in Occupied East Jerusalem (tags)

Israel's repressive occupation

Brave Israeli Commandos Slaughter Aid Activists at Sea (tags)

Murder at sea

Israel's Specialty: Targeting Civilians (tags)

how rogue states operate

Israel's ID/Permit System (tags)

An element of Israeli apartheid

Israeli Hypocrisy: Talking Peace While Preparing for War and Institutionalizing Dire Condi (tags)

Israel always chooses violence over peace

Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (tags)

Israel violates laws it's sworn to uphold

National Public Radio's Pro-Israeli Bias (tags)

NPR supports power and privilege and their worst crimes

Imprisoning Palestinian Children (tags)

Children treated as abusively as adults

Freedom of Association Restrictions and Discrimination in Israel and Occupied Palestine (tags)

destructive Israeli policies

The Lawfare Project's Anti-Democratic Agenda (tags)

LP is a guardian of Washingto-Israeli power

Peace Process Hypocrisy: Stillborn from Inception (tags)

The peace process is a charade

The Russell Tribunal on Palestine: Barcelona Session (tags)

Explaining Israeli crimes

Lights going out in Gaza again (tags)

Lights going out in Gaza again

Breaking the Silence: Women Soldiers Speak Out (tags)

Women soldiers expose IDF crimes

Human Rights Abuses in Israel and Occupied Palestine (tags)

Jews are also affected

Israeli Occupation Supportive Companies to Boycott (tags)

Supporting BDS essential

The Lessons of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (tags)

how to stop Israeli crimes

Israeli Prohibitions Against Free Expression and "Enemy Alien" Contacts (tags)

Erosion of civil liberties in Israel

Israel's East Jerusalem Linked Settlement Expansion (tags)

continued land theft

Arresting Peaceful Protesters in Occupied Palestine (tags)

Israeli oppression continues

The Occupied West Bank Latroun Villages (tags)

occupied and persecuted

Israeli Occupation, Colonialism and Apartheid (tags)

Israeli oppression continues

Jews Against Zionism (tags)

Courageous Jews for justice

Medical marijuana gets a boost from major doctors group (tags)

Medical marijuana gets a boost from major doctors group

Push to legalize marijuana gains ground in California (tags)

Push to legalize marijuana gains ground in California

Economic recovery underway - a cruel deception (tags)

Endangered species listing sought for Arctic reindeer (tags)

Endangered species listing sought for Arctic reindeer

Fed refuses to disclose recipients of US $2-trillion (tags)

Fed refuses to disclose recipients of US $2-trillion

A billion to go hungry with food prices back on rise (tags)

A billion to go hungry with food prices back on rise

Iran's marine mammals endangered (tags)

Iran's marine mammals endangered

600,000 seniors about to lose their homes (tags)

600,000 seniors about to lose their homes

CA now faces budget cuts "beyond draconian" (tags)

CA now faces budget cuts "beyond draconian"

US Army prepares to occupy Iraq for another decade (tags)

US Army prepares to occupy Iraq for another decade

Human Rights Situation in Occupied Palestine (tags)

Israel's continued reign of terror against a civilian population

Schwarzenegger plans to completely eliminate welfare for families (tags)

Schwarzenegger plans to completely eliminate welfare for families

The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (tags)

reporting Israeli war crimes

Interior upholds rules designed to make polar bears extinct (tags)

Interior upholds rules designed to make polar bears extinct

CA Governor asks 'what if pot's legal and taxed?' (tags)

CA Governor Schwarzenegger asks 'what if pot's legal and taxed?'

US escalates threats against Pakistan (tags)

US escalates threats against Pakistan

The international monetary system's breakdown is underway (tags)

The international monetary system's breakdown is underway

Honeybees in danger (tags)

Honeybees in danger

Ice-free Arctic Ocean possible in 30 years (tags)

Ice-free Arctic Ocean possible in 30 years

Israel's Illegal Annexation of East Jerusalem (tags)

Israeli ethnic cleansing

Marine mammals will die in Navy warfare testing program (tags)

Marine mammals will die in Navy warfare testing program

Iraq puppet government prepares to execute hundreds of gays (tags)

Iraq puppet government prepares to execute hundreds of gays

America loses 23,000 jobs every day (tags)

America loses 23,000 jobs every day

Human Rights in Israel and Occupied Palestine (tags)

serious human rights violations

Targeting Israel with Boycotts, Divestment, Sanctions and Prosecutions (tags)

It's time to hold Israel accountable.

Ceasefires, Israeli-Style (tags)

Israel never honors them.

Israel Killed Everything but the Will to Resist (tags)

Palestinians are unbowed.

Today in Solidarity We're All Palestinians (tags)

World outrage condemns Israeli war crimes

The Quartet's Hypocrisy and Failure in Occupied Palestine (tags)

Quartet's complicity in Israeli war crimes

Global Human Rights Groups Protest Slaughter in Gaza (tags)

Israeli genocide

US military admits killing 33 civilians in Afghanistan air strike (tags)

US military admits killing 33 civilians in Afghanistan air strike

Another Israeli West Bank Land Grab Scheme (tags)

Israeli land theft.

US faces the F-16s it supplied to Pakistan (tags)

US faces the F-16s it supplied to Pakistan

NATO air strikes killing more Afghan civilians (tags)

NATO air strikes killing more Afghan civilians

Francis Boyle's "Palestine Palestinians and International Law" (tags)

Boyle's powerful case for Palestinian self-determination.

Jeff Halper's "An Israeli in Palestine" - Part II (tags)

Part II of Halper's important book.

Drought and Israeli Policy Threaten West Bank Water Security (tags)

Inadequate West Bank water.

BBC's Pro-Israeli Bias (tags)

media propaganda

Ramzy Baroud's "The Second Palestinian Intifada" (tags)

The agony continues.

Sixty Years of Palestinian Displacement, Occupation and Suffering (tags)

On May 14, remember the Nakba.

How business starves the world's poor (tags)

How business starves the world's poor

Denying Palestinians Free Movement in the West Bank (tags)

West Bank repression.

Toxic e-waste pouring into Third World (tags)

Toxic e-waste pouring into Third World

$100 fill-ups arrive at gas pumps (tags)

$100 fill-ups arrive at gas pumps

Hunger plagues Haiti and the world (tags)

Hunger plagues Haiti and the world

US looking at lead levels in artificial turf (tags)

US looking at lead levels in artificial turf

US undermining Afghan trials (tags)

US undermining Afghan trials

US lawmakers invested in Iraq, Afghanistan wars (tags)

US lawmakers invested in Iraq, Afghanistan wars

Human Rights Violations in Israel and Palestine (tags)

Violations in Israel and Palestine

Bush to veto bill curbing waterboarding (tags)

Bush to veto bill curbing waterboarding

Infragard - Martial law enforcement has been privatized (tags)

Martial law enforcement has been privatized

Iran halted nuclear program in 2003 (tags)

Iran halted nuclear program in 2003

Blackwater brass forms intel company (tags)

Blackwater brass forms intel company

A Review of the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (tags)

An account of Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians from uncovered official and other documents.

Bush's budget priorities: war and the wealthy (tags)

Bush's budget priorities: war and the wealthy

Services sector overtakes farming (tags)

Services sector overtakes farming

New Orleans police setting up overnight checkpoints (tags)

New Orleans police setting up overnight checkpoints

Corporations taking over New Jersey's toll-roads (tags)

Corporations taking over New Jersey's toll-roads

Immense ice shelf breaks off in Canadian Arctic (tags)

Immense ice shelf breaks off in Canadian Arctic

five years of infamy: close Guantanamo (tags)

five years of infamy: close Guantanamo

More Americans hungry, homeless in 2006 (tags)

More Americans hungry, homeless in 2006

Mourning for Pinochet-US establishment shows its affinity for fascism (tags)

Mourning for Pinochet-US establishment shows its affinity for fascism

violent video game effects linger in brain (tags)

violent video game effects linger in brain

Iraq conquest longer in duration than WWII (tags)

Iraq conquest longer in duration than WWII

Scientists fret over missing grey whales (tags)

Scientists fret over missing grey whales

Fewer polar bear cubs survive in Alaska (tags)

Fewer polar bear cubs survive in Alaska

Marijuana, the anti-drug (tags)

Marijuana, the anti-drug

Insurance companies looking to outsource health care (tags)

Insurance companies looking to outsource health care to the developing world.

US to screen all who enter, leave country (tags)

US casualties mount in Iraq and Afghanistan (tags)

US casualties mount in Iraq and Afghanistan

Water for millions at risk (tags)

Water for millions at risk as glaciers melt faster than expected

Navy officer tapped to head LA schools (tags)

Navy officer with no experience tapped to head LA schools

Kenneth Lay's conviction erased from record (tags)

Kenneth Lay's conviction erased from record

The Dow's phony new high (tags)

The Dow's phony new high

Chicago plans to add 100 stealth cameras (tags)

Chicago plans to add 100 stealth cameras

Profiteering (tags)

Profiteering

millions of Medicare beneficiaries to be left without drug coverage (tags)

millions of Medicare beneficiaries to be left without drug coverage

Border fence could spell environmental disaster (tags)

Border fence could spell environmental disaster

Congressman Kucinich Returns From Southern Lebanon With Message of Peace (tags)

"We do not hate America. We love the American people. We do not like what your government does. Please tell the American people that we are not terrorists. We do not hate Israel. We want to be safe in our village. We want to be left alone. We want peace."

Judge bars Navy sonar (tags)

Judge bars Navy sonar

Crushed by Gate of Occupation (tags)

Rafeda Thaer, a three-year-old Palestinian girl killed at an Israeli checkpoint. “During 2005 some of the world’s most powerful governments were successfully challenged, their hypocrisy exposed by the media, their arguments rejected by courts of law, their repressive tactics resisted by human rights activists.” Sam Bahour writing from El-Bireh, Occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4738.shtml

News Junkie Scott's Blog (12/18/05) (tags)

Video: Israel's 'Separation Wall' is Barbaric.

IT'S THE OCCUPATION, STUPID! (tags)

-The Al Aqsa Intifada is a disaster for Israelis and Palestinians as it hits its fourth year with no significant advances, no real agreement in sight or an end to the violence.

BTL:2-Decisions Find Israel's Security Wall Violates Rights of Palestinians~ (tags)

~Interview with John Quigley, professor of law at Ohio State University conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus

The IsraHell's Separation Wall (by Latuff) (tags)

Copyright-free artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff. Support The Stop The Wall Campaign: http://www.stopthewall.org/

Jayyous (Palestine) Women's March Vs the Wall- Mothers demand right to feed their children (tags)

Endorse message of support from the Global Women's Strike to the Jayyous Women's Charitable Society 'WOMEN MARCH AGAINST THE WALL - Mothers demand right to feed their children' Jayyous, Qalqilya, Palestine October 23, 2003

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