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Individual Endorsers Divestment Campaign? As of December 29, 2010 Home Why the Israel Individual Endorsers Divestment Campaign? As of December 29, 2010 Campaign Listed affiliations are for identification purposes only Endorsements Actions You Can "We defeated apartheid nonviolently because the international Take Now community agreed to support the disinvestment in apartheid campaign. CalPERS & CalSTRS A similar campaign can help to bring peace in the Middle East and do so Policies and nonviolently." Investments —Archbishop Desmond Tutu, August 2010 Archive: The Original 2011 Anna Baltzer, Human Rights Activist and Author, Witness in Palestine Petition Campaign FAQ Phyllis Bennis, New Internationalism Project, Institute for Policy Studies. Washington, DC About Us Contact Mark Braverman, Activist and Author, Fatal Embrace: Christians, Jews, and the Search for Peace in the Holy Land Help Noam Chomsky, Author, Institute Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts BDS Opinion Corner Institute of Technology Iain Banks Cindy and Craig Corrie, Activist Parents of Rachel Corrie; Founders, Rachel 04.05.2013 Why Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice I'm supporting a cultural boycott of Hedy Epstein, Activist and Speaker Israel Norman Finkelstein, Writer and Lecturer Ali Abunimah Bill Fletcher, Jr., Former President, TransAfrica Forum 03.28.2013 On the duplicity of the PLO Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, Belfast, Northern Ireland Cynthia McKinney, Former Congresswoman (Georgia), Green Party Miko Peled Presidential Nominee 03.19.2013 Obama Won't Bring Peace Cindy Sheehan, National Director, Peace of the Action to Palestine Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate, Cape Town, South Africa Alex Kane 03.01.2013 Israel "As a human rights activist and Jewish woman of conscience, I endorse lobby group gears this ballot measure urging California to divest in companies complicit in up to counter Israeli occupation of Palestine... let us say, "No more money for the church divestment brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine. Californians support human initiatives in 2014 rights." Omar Barghouti —Marcy Winograd, Former CA Congressional Candidate, August 2010 02.25.2013 Why I've boycotted Laila Al-Marayati, Muslim Public Affairs Council Israel Carlos Alvarez, Candidate for CA Governor (Peace & Freedom Party; Party for Socialism & Liberation) Adri Nieuwhof 02.19.2013 Veolia Sara Amir, Former California Green Party Candidate for Lt. Governor suffering "expensive" Aris Anagnos, Peace Activist, Executive VP, Southern California Chapter of damage due to Americans for Democratic Action - Los Angeles Palestine campaigners' Charles Anderson, President, Orange County Chapter, American Civil publicity says Liberties Union; Chair, OC Peace and Freedom Party; Former President, Tustin financial expert Municipal Employee Association Rev. Dr John Anderson, Presbyterian Minister, San Francisco Judith Butler 02.07.2013 A Hussam Ayloush, Executive Director, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Philosopher's Greater Los Angeles Area Remarks to Brooklyn College Sam Bahour, Palestinian American Activist and businessperson, Palestine on BDS Hatem Bazian, Founder and National Chairman, American Muslims for Palestine, Berkeley Michael Omer-Man 02.04.2013 Could Richard Becker, Author, Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire UNHRC's settlement report Marylou Cabral, Candidate for CA Secretary of State (Peace & Freedom put the 'S' back in Party; Party for Socialism and Liberation) BDS? Richard R. Castaldo, Peace & Freedom Party (PFP) Congressional Candidate for CA 30th District; Columbine CO High School Survivor, Los Angeles Ron Jacobs 01.06.2013 The Rev. Jim Conn, Retired United Methodist Minister, Former Mayor, Santa case for Sanctions Monica Roger Dittmann, California State University, Fullerton; President, US Federation of Scholars and Scientists; Former President, AFT #1588; Former President, Unitarian Society, Orange County Frank Dorrel, Los Angeles Peace Activist, Grassroots Educator and Publisher, Addicted to War Allan Fisher, City College of San Francisco; Executive Board, AFT 2121 Jess Ghannam, Coordinating Committee, Al-Awda (The Palestinian Right to Return Coalition), San Francisco Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, Cofounder, Shomer Shalom Network for Jewish Nonviolence Beau Grosscup, Former Chapter President, California Faculty Association (CFA), Chico Daniel Hamburg, Former US Congressman, Former California Green Party Candidate for Governor Sheikh Taha Hassane, Imam, Islamic Center of San Diego Dr. Maher Hathout , Chairman, Islamic Shura Council Scott Kennedy, Cofounder, Resource Center for Nonviolence; Board Member, Interfaith Peace-Builders; Two-time Former Mayor, Santa Cruz Hamid Khan, Executive Director, South Asian Network, Artesia Janet Kobren, Oakland, Retired New York City Teacher; Gaza Freedom Flotilla Participant; Member, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) James Lafferty, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild, Los Angeles Pamela de Maigret, Foreign Correspondent, Documentary Filmmaker and Writer, Los Angeles Rev. Darrel Meyers, Retired Presbyterian Minister, Los Angeles Michael Novick, Author, Publisher, Turning the Tide; Former Chapter Chair, United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA); Former Member, UTLA House of Representatives Jim Odling, Retired Member, Firefighters Local 1014, Los Angeles Ed Purcell, Labor Relations Consultant, Los Angeles David Rasmussen, Former President, California Association of Professional Scientists Gloria La Riva, CA Candidate for U.S. Congress (Peace & Freedom Party; Party for Socialism & Liberation) Bernard Rohrbacher, Director of Representation, California Faculty Association (CFA) Emma Rosenthal, Retired Teacher/STRS member; Director, Cafe Intifada; Contributor, Shifting Sands: Jewish Women Confront the Israeli Occupation Khalilah Sabra, Civil Rights Activist and Author, An Unordinary Death, the Life of a Palestinian Gonzalo Santos, Former Chapter President, California Faculty Association (CFA), Bakersfield Stanley K. Sheinbaum, Founding Publisher, New Perspectives Quarterly; UC Regent Emeritus; President, Los Angeles Police Commission Rev. Jerald M. Stinson, Senior Minister, First Congregational Church of Long Beach Shakeel Syed, Executive Director, Islamic Shura Council of Southern California Clarence Thomas, Former Secretary-Treasurer, ILWU Local 10, Oakland Mohammad Ashraf Toor, National Chair, Pakistani American Democratic Forum (PADF) Imam Mustafa Umar, Associate Director - Islamic Society of Corona-Norco Darlene Wallach, Northern California Coordinator, Free Gaza Movement, San Jose Donna Wallach, Justice for Palestinians, San Jose Rev. DarEll T. Weist, Retired United Methodist Minister, Pasadena Marcy Winograd, Former CA Congressional Candidate; STRS Participant, Los Angeles Rev. Dr. Tony Wolfe, Presbyterian Minister, San Diego Rev. 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