Let it be known that those who voted in favor of the veto or who abstained will eventually be confirmed as belonging to the wrong side of history; this I promise. FTL. Daily Californian: “The ASUC Senate upheld the veto of a bill targeting companies involved in alleged Israeli war crimes at its meeting on Wednesday [...]
The Daily Californian: After deliberating in closed session last night over ASUC President Will Smelko’s March 24 veto of a bill urging the University of California to divest from companies that supplied Israel with materials used in alleged war crimes, the ASUC Senate failed to come to a consensus on whether or not to submit [...]
The Berkeley Daily Planet – Excerpt: “After almost nine hours of often contentious debate and discussion Wednesday, the fate of the UC Berkeley student senate Israel divestment bill remains undecided as of Thursday morning. The student senate voted at about 7 a.m. to table the bill, which had been vetoed by senate President Will Smelko [...]
The Daily Californian: International attention will descend on the ASUC Senate meeting tonight as senators consider upholding the passage of a controversial bill urging the student government and the University of California to divest from two companies that have provided war supplies to the Israeli military. The bill names two companies-United Technologies and General Electric-as [...]
See the video here – Excerpt: “We’re [AIPAC] gonna make sure that pro-Israel students take over the student government and reverse the vote… this is how AIPAC operates in our nation’s capital and this is how AIPAC MUST operate on our nation’s campuses.” From what I hear, the newly elected ASUC president is connected to [...]
Excerpt: “I am writing to tell you that, despite what detractors may allege, you are doing the right thing. You are doing the moral thing. You are doing that which is incumbent on you as humans who believe that all people have dignity and rights, and that all those being denied their dignity and rights [...]
Berkeley’s ASUC president may have vetoed the senate’s divestment bill, but the struggle continues: “ASUC President Will Smelko vetoed a bill Wednesday-passed by a 16-4 vote in the senate a week before-that called for the ASUC and UC to divest from General Electric and United Technologies because the companies, according to the bill, provide Israel [...]
He will be voted out of office, I promise, and then they’ll vote for the bill again: ASUC President Will Smelko vetoed a bill Wednesday that called for the University of California to divest from companies that have provided war supplies to Israel.The bill states that United Technologies and General Electric are supplying Israel with [...]
[The divestment campaign was first launched at UC Berkeley when I was an undergraduate there. It took a long time, but the activists at Students for Justice in Palestine finally did it.] Early yesterday morning, the University of California Berkeley Student Senate (ASUC) passed a bill to divest from companies that provide military support for [...]
See the provacative video here.
Here’s the local TV coverage of the showdown yesterday. Here’s the NYT’s article. What’s the next step? Does anybody know?
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