{"article":{"id":85812,"heading":"The Rutgers Palestine Divestment Conference is ON and GOING STRONG!!","author":"Divestment Conference","created":"2003-10-01 18:23:02","modified":"2003-10-01 18:23:02","last_modified":"Thu, 02 Oct 2003 01:23:02","article":"

PLEASE FORWARD EVERYWHERE!!-

OCTOBER 10-12, 2003 - Rutgers University - NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ

NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON THE PALESTINE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT

Despite all attacks - from Zionist forces, from University administration,

from the State and the Governor - the Rutgers conference on Palestine, the

Third North American Conference on the Palestine Solidarity Movement, is

CONTINUING ON and GOING STRONG!!

We have over 1098 letters to the Rutgers administration written in support

of the conference, 467 registered participants, 163 organizational

endorsers, 1253 individual endorsers of the conference and many more still

going on, and an exciting and growing schedule of workshops and speakers!

(Please see http:\/\/www.divestmentconference.com\/<\/a> for more specifics!)

REGISTER AND ENDORSE!

The conference IS taking place on October 10-12, 2003! Make your travel

plans now - book your plane, train and bus tickets, reserve your hotels

and plan to be at Rutgers University for the Third North American

Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement!

Now is the time - JOIN US!

Register, endorse and learn more online at:

http:\/\/www.divestmentconference.com\/<\/a>

REGISTER NOW ONLINE:

http:\/\/www.njsolidarity.org\/dconfregister.htm<\/a>

ENDORSE NOW ONLINE:

http:\/\/www.njsolidarity.org\/conference\/confendorse.html<\/a>

Email registration: registration@njsolidarity.org<\/a>

Email endorsements: endorse@njsolidarity.org<\/a>

DONATE NOW ONLINE:

http:\/\/www.njsolidarity.org\/confdonate.html<\/a>

WRITE TO RUTGERS HERE:

http:\/\/www.divestmentconference.com\/emailrutgers.html<\/a>

Show your organizational support and endorse the conference! Sign on to be

there and participate in an exciting, important moment in our movement -

uniting the solidarity movement, expressing our solidarity as it is

desperately needed with the Palestinian people, and uniting our struggles

with those of the Palestinian people - for justice and liberation, against

oppression and exploitation.



RALLY! SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11!

As part of the conference, as a demonstration of solidarity with the

Palestinian people, an expression of our denied rights to be heard, and a

clear confrontation for justice and liberation against the Zionist forces

who support slaughter, terror and eradication of the Palestinian people,

we will hold a MASS RALLY at Rutgers University on Saturday, October 11!

Saturday, October 11

5:00 PM

College Avenue

Rutgers University

New Brunswick, New Jersey

We will have numerous speakers and contingents from the conference and

around the region! Bring your buses, vans and cars to join our voices

together for justice in Palestine, in the US and around the world!

DONATE TO THE CONFERENCE!

Your support is enabling our conference to continue to grow! Due to the

series of attacks suffered by the conference, we need your support now

more than ever. Please, help make the conference a strong success and

donate! Donate online at:

http:\/\/www.njsolidarity.org\/confdonate.html<\/a>

or make checks out to \"New Jersey Solidarity\" and send to:

New Jersey Solidarity

SAC Box 52

613 George Street

New Brunswick, NJ 08901

HOUSING AND LOGISTICS

There are many local hotels in New Brunswick and the surrounding areas, as

well as students willing to share their living quarters with traveling

activists! For assistance with housing and hotels, please contact our

housing coordinator at housing@njsolidarity.org<\/a> !

HOTELS

If you are looking to stay at a hotel, please reserve at the:

North Brunswick Ramada Inn!

Ramada Inn

999 US Route 1 South

North Brunswick, NJ 08902 United States of America

Phone: 732-246-3737 Fax: 732-448-9670

Mention \"NJS\" or \"NJ Solidarity\" to get the group rate!!

Other local hotels include:

Motel 6 on Rte 18\/East Brunswick: (732) 390-4545

Hilton East Brunswick: (732)-828-2000

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Third North American Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement

seeks papers, documents and other written materials that memorialize

historical and present experience in building Palestine solidarity and

divestment movements. We welcome materials about research, experience in

setting up student groups and campaigns, developing divestment calls, amd

outreaching to others.

We welcome papers with a historical focus, overviews of current movements

and situations, and documents looking toward the future. These papers will

be distributed at the conference, at Rutgers University on October 10-12,

2003, and beyond, published together as a record and a guide to

movement-building. All SJP chapters and individuals are invited to submit

papers and documents.

Please submit these papers and documents before September 27, 2003 to

Snehal Shingavi at justiceinpalestine@hotmail.com<\/a>.

We'll see you, at Rutgers University, on October 10-12, 2003!!

http:\/\/www.divestmentconference.com<\/a>

Organizational Endorsers

A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition ActionLA

Ad-Hoc Nepal Solidarity Committee

Al-Awda Los Angeles

Al-Awda NY\/NJ

Al-Awda Orange County

Al-Awda San Diego

Al-Awda, San Francisco Area

Al-Bireh Palestine Society - California

All-African People's Revolutionary Party

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee - Fresno Chapter

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee - Greater Sacramento Area

Chapter

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee - Los Angeles\/Orange County

Chapter

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee - San Francisco Bay Area

Chapter

Americans for a Just Peace in the Middle East

Americans for Social Justice

Amnesty International of Park Falls, WI

Ann Arbor Coalition Against the War

ANSWER Coalition, Boston

ANSWER Coalition, Los Angeles

ANSWER Coalition, Orange County

ANSWER Coalition, SF Bay Area

ANSWER Coalition, Western Mass

Arab American Caucus of the California Democratic Party

Arab American Press Guild

Arise Bookstore Collective

Arise for Social Justice

Augusta Coalition for Peace and Justice

Bay Area United Against War

Bayan International - U.S.A.

Bayan International - Los Angeles Chapter

Bridgewater State College R.E.A.P.S. Restoring Environmental And Political

Brisbane Free the Five Committee

Bus Riders Union\/Labor Community Strategy Center

Campus Greens at The Ohio State University

Casa las Amricas

Central New Jersey Coalition for Peace and Justice

Chicago Coalition Against War and Racism

Christians and Muslims Establishing Peace

Citizens for Fair Legislation

Colorado Campaign for Middle East Peace

Colorado Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Committee for Justice to Defend the LA8

Committee for the Release of Farouk Abdel-Muhti

Committee to Defend Palestinian Human Rights

Communist Party, USA's, Frederick Douglass Club

Communist Party of Argentina

Conscious Roots (San Francisco)

CUNY4All

Dallas Peace Center

Deir Yassin Society of New York

Dream Dancer Design

Egyptian American Professional Society

Ever Reviled Records

First Nations North & South

For a Better World

Forum of Indian Leftists

Free Palestine Alliance - USA

Grandmothers for Peace International

Green Party of Dallas County

Hawaii Solidarity Committee

INCITE! Women of Color against Violence

Indigenous Student Alliance at Occidental College in Los Angeles,

California

International Action Center

Int'l League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS-US)

International Socialist Organization, USA

IranDokht

Islamic Association for Palestine

Islamic Center of NYU

Jews for a Free Palestine

Just Peace: An Action Group for Justice in the Middle East

Kabataang maka-Bayan (KmB)

Korea Truth Commission

La Raza Unida Party

LAGAI -- Queer Insurrection (SF Bay Area)

March For Justice

Marin Center for Peace and Justice

Marshall Action for Peaceful Solutions - Marshall University

Maui EARTHDAY Collective

Mexican American Education Foundation

Mideast:Just Peace

Minnesotan's for a United Ireland

Minority eXperience Network

Modesto Committee for Peace in the Middle East, California

Morton County Citizens for Repsonsible Government

Movement In Motion Arts Collective

Movimento Democratico Pela Anistia

Muslim Student Association - National

Muslim Student Association at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County

(UMBC)

Muslim Student Association - Sacramento

Muslim Student Association - San Francisco State University

National Committee to Free the Five Cuban Political Prisoners - Los

Angeles

National Lawyers Guild - Los Angeles

National Lawyers Guild - University of Texas School of Law

New England Committee to Defend Palestine

New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine

New School Aikido

New York Committee to Defend Palestine

New Zealand Peace Council

Not in Our Name Mxico

NYC Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition

Orange County Peace and Freedom Party

Orange County Veterans for Peace

Palestine Action at Union Square

Palestine Aid Society

Palestine Children's Welfare Fund

Palestine Solidarity Committee of South Africa

Palestine Solidarity Group - Chicago

Palestine Solidarity Group - Vancouver B.C. Canada

Palestinian American Congress

Palestinian American Women Association of Southern California

Palestinian - Canadian Student Society - University of Calgary, Canada

Palestinian Council for Justice and Peace - Ramallah, Palestine

Palestinian National Association for Youth - Gaza

Partido Comunista do Brasil

Peace Action - Sacramento Area, California

Peace and Justice Alliance (Central Washington University)

Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County

Peace and Justice Network of San Joaquin County

PeaceNoWar

Philippine Peasant Support Network (PESANTE)

Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee

PoetsWesth

Progress Acadamic Group - An-Najah University, Nablus, Palestine

Proyecto Common Touch

Public Intellectuals for Social and Spare Change

Queers For Peace And Justice

Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!) (SF Bay Area)

Reform Party USA - Action Group

Revolution Youth

Rutgers Pakistan Student Association

Rutgers University Queens Chorale

Sacred Roots

SNAFU - the Support Network for an Armed Forces Union

SOA Watch West San Jose

Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights - Concordia

St. Pete for Peace

Stony Brook Coalition Against War

Students for Corporate Responsibility - University of Wisconsin -

Milwaukee

Students for Justice - San Jose State University

Students for Justice in Palestine, California State Univ. Sacramento

Students for Justice in Palestine, Sacramento

Students for Justice in Palestine, UC Berkeley

Students for Justice in Palestine, UC Davis

Students for Justice in Palestine, University of Illinois-Chicago

Students for Social Justice

Students Movement for Justice

South Jersey Earth First!

Suburban Outreach

Sudanese American Society

SUSTAIN - Northwest Suburban - Chicago area

SUSTAIN, St. Louis

Third World Forum

Third World Majority

UC Berkeley Arab Student Union

Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento

usQueers

Utahns for a Just Peace in the Holy Land

We The People United

Weekly East West Link & Urdu Times

Women Against War

Women of All Red Nations

Youth Solidarity Summer

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