1. Fourth Annual PSM Divestment Conference.
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Powell, Sara
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STUDENT activism , *CONFERENCES & conventions , *ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc. - Abstract
The article reports that student-led Palestinian Solidarity Movement (PSM) to divest from Israel in support of Palestinian rights convened its fourth annual conference at Duke University in North Carolina on October 15, 2004. Zionist efforts, similar to tactics used against the Rutgers conference last year, failed to shut it down. The opening plenary, entitled "the Edward Said Memorial Panel," featured Palestinian lawyer Diana Buttu and clergy Mark Davidson of the Presbyterian Church, whose national board recently voted to selectively divest from Israel. Unfortunately, famed South African poet and antiapartheid activist Dennis Brutus was delayed in Great Britain and unable to attend.
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- 2004