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Please see below for an urgent solidarity request from Toronto
Students for Justice in Palestine (TSJP). </div>
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TSJP is a Palestine solidarity group that has formed at the
University of Toronto Scarborough Campus (UTSC). TSJP<span
style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:'Lucida Grande'"> will
be bringing a motion to endorse the Boycott, Divestment and
Sanctions campaign (BDS) before the Scarborough Campus
Students’ Union (SCSU) on April 5th.</span><span
style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:'Lucida Grande'"> In
addition to a group letter, TSJP is calling on individual
faculty to support their motion.</span></div>
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<div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Please
share widely with colleagues.</div>
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<div style="font-size:13px"><span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="comic sans
ms,sans-serif"><b>TO SEND AN INDIVIDUAL LETTER: see CALL
below and pasted template </b></font></span></div>
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><strong><font
face="comic sans ms,sans-serif">Deadline to send letters
of support is</font></strong>: </span><font
color="#ff0000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><b>April 4,
2013</b></font><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></div>
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<div style="font-size:13px"><font face="comic sans ms,
sans-serif"><b>TO ATTEND THE SCSU MEETING: </b></font><span
style="line-height:17px;text-align:left"><b><font
face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><font color="#ff0000">April
5, Student Centre, room SL-232, 6 to 8pm</font></font></b></span></div>
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style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:17px;text-align:left"><b><font
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color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span
style="line-height:17px">In addition, TSJP is holding a
film screening and an information session:</span></font></div>
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color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span
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<div style="font-size:13px;text-align:left"><strong
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida
grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.facebook.com/events/117360825120167/?ref=22"
target="_blank"
style="color:rgb(59,89,152);text-decoration:none">5 BROKEN
CAMERAS Film Screening & Information Session</a></strong>
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grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px">
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.facebook.com/events/calendar/2013/March/26"
rel="async" target="_blank"
style="color:gray;text-decoration:none">March 26</a> at 5:00pm</div>
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grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px">
<span style="margin-right:10px"><span
style="font-size:11px;color:gray"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.facebook.com/utsc1" target="_blank"
style="color:gray;text-decoration:none">University of
Toronto Scarborough (UTSC)</a> in<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Toronto-Ontario/110941395597405"
target="_blank"
style="color:gray;text-decoration:none">Toronto,
Ontario</a></span></span></div>
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grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px"><span
style="margin-left:10px">IC130</span></div>
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grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px">
<span style="margin-right:10px"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.facebook.com/events/117360825120167/"
target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/events/117360825120167/</a></span></div>
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<div style="font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Please
RSVP to this email if you plan on attending the film or the
SCSU meeting. TSJP will be glad to hear they are receiving
faculty support.</font></div>
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<b><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">CALL FROM TORONTO
STUDENTS FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE (TSJP)<br>
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<p style="margin-left:48pt"><span
style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:'Lucida Grande'">We
are currently trying to pass the BDS motion here at UTSC
and are facing some opposition. On March 26 we will be
showing the documentary 5 Broken Cameras as well as having
an information session to discuss the occupation of
Palestine, the work we do on campus, and what BDS really
means.</span><span
style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-left:48pt"><span
style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:'Lucida Grande'"> We
have had one lecturer write to the Scarborough Campus
Students' Union against passing the BDS motion. </span><span
style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-left:48pt"><span
style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:'Lucida Grande'">Here
are something F4P could do that would greatly assist us:</span><span
style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-left:48pt"><span
style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:'Lucida Grande'">If
you and/or F4P would like to co-sponsor the documentary
and information session, please let us know. You may speak
at the event about the role F4P plays, etc.</span><span
style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-left:48pt"><span
style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:'Lucida Grande'"> You
and/or F4P could send an email in support of the BDS
motion here at UTSC to the following </span><span
style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Arial"></span><span
style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:'Lucida Grande'">emails:
</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-left:48pt"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:president@scsu.ca"
style="font-family:'Lucida Grande'" target="_blank"><span
style="color:rgb(32,76,183)">president@scsu.ca</span></a><span
style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:'Lucida Grande'">
</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-left:48pt"><span
style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:'Lucida Grande'"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:academics@scsu.ca"
target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(32,76,183)">academics@scsu.ca</span></a>
</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-left:48pt"><span
style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:'Lucida Grande'"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:studentsandequity@scsu.ca" target="_blank"><span
style="color:rgb(32,76,183)">studentsandequity@scsu.ca</span></a>
</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-left:48pt"><span
style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:'Lucida Grande'"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:external@scsu.ca"
target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(32,76,183)">external@scsu.ca</span></a>
</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-left:48pt"><span
style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:'Lucida Grande'"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:operations@scsu.ca"
target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(32,76,183)">operations@scsu.ca</span></a>
</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-left:48pt"><span
style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:'Lucida Grande'"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:humanresources@scsu.ca" target="_blank"><span
style="color:rgb(32,76,183)">humanresources@scsu.ca</span></a>
</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-left:48pt"><span
style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:'Lucida Grande'"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:campuslife@scsu.ca"
target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(32,76,183)">campuslife@scsu.ca</span></a>
</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-left:48pt"><span
style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:'Lucida Grande'"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:info@scsu.ca"
target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(32,76,183)">info@scsu.ca</span></a>
</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-left:48pt">
<span style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:'Lucida
Grande'"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:Rannie@scsu.ca" target="_blank"><span
style="color:rgb(32,76,183)">Rannie@scsu.ca</span></a>
</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-left:48pt">
<span style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:'Lucida
Grande'"><span style="color:rgb(32,76,183)"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:taha@scsu.ca"
target="_blank">taha@scsu.ca</a></span></span><span
style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-left:48pt"><span
style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:'Lucida Grande'">cc:
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:tjsp@hotmail.ca">tjsp@hotmail.ca</a></span><span
style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:'Lucida Grande'"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-left:48pt"><span
style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:'Lucida Grande'">And
lastly, we will be passing the motion on April 5, we
encourage everyone to attend this historic meeting, and
Faculty for Palestine is more than encouraged to attend.</span><span
style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-left:48pt"><span
style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:'Lucida Grande'">Toronto
Students for Justice in Palestine</span><span
style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Arial"><span
style="color:rgb(32,76,183);font-family:'Lucida Grande'"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:tsjp@hotmail.ca"
target="_blank">tsjp@hotmail.ca</a></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26)"><b><font face="comic sans
ms, sans-serif">Letter of support for BDS - template</font></b></span></p>
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<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">March 24,
2013</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Arial">Dear members
of the Scarborough Campus Students Union (SCSU):</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Faculty 4
Palestine is inspired by the Toronto Students for Justice
in Palestine’s (TSJP)
decision to bring forth a motion calling on the SCSU to
endorse the 2005 call
from Palestinian civil society for Boycott, Divestment,
and Sanctions against
Israel (BDS). We are honoured to support this motion and
to be working in
solidarity and collaboration with student unions,
associations and
organizations such as TSJP and SCSU in the campus BDS
movement and in the
global movement as a whole.</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">The SCSU
will be joining student associations across Canada and
around the world by
endorsing BDS in the struggle for justice in Palestine. As
the Palestinian
Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
(PACBI) noted in their
opening newsletter of the year, 2012 was a banner year for
BDS endorsements
globally and on campuses across Canada and Quebec - <i>"2012
has been</i> <i>an
exciting year for the growth of the cultural and
academic boycott of Israel, a
pillar of the global BDS movement." </i></span><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(32,76,183)"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=2094">http://pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=2094</a></span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">PACBI's list
of highlights acknowledges the wave of campus support on
Canadian campuses that
began in February of 2012 and now includes the following 8
student unions:</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">* University
of Regina Students Union (February 2012) </span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">* Graduate
Students Association at Carleton University (March 2012)</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">* York
University Graduate Students Association (November 2012)</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">* University
of Toronto Graduate Students Association (December 2012) </span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">* Concordia
Graduate Students Association (January 2013)</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">* University
of Toronto Mississauga Students Union (February 2013)</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">* Trent
University Central Students Association (February 2013)</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">* York
University
Federation of Students (March 2013)</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">This recent
surge in student union BDS endorsements also joins three
campus divestment
campaigns launched in 2010 (Carleton University) and 2011
(York University and
University of Toronto). These cross-campus divestment
campaigns were initiated
after Israel’s 2008-2009 war crimes and massacre of over
1400 Palestinians in
Gaza, and also in response to the renewed call in 2009 for
campus divestment
and academic boycott by the Gaza students in the
Palestinian Students Campaign
for the Academic Boycott of Israeli (PSCABI).
Students around the world have also played a key role in
building the
academic boycott. In solidarity with
faculty activists, student organizers advanced the
historic decision made by the
Senate of the University of Johannesburg (UJS) to sever
their formal
relationship with the Ben-Gurion University in Israel
(September, 2010) in support
of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural
Boycott of Israel
(PACBI). Archbishop Desmond Tutu applauded the UJS
decision pointing out that </span><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:black">Israeli universities
are complicit in
maintaining an apartheid state and this decision
recognizes the right of
Palestinians to non-violent resistance:</span></p>
<p class=""
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-left:36pt;text-align:justify;background-color:white"><i><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:black">Together with the
peace-loving peoples of
this Earth, I condemn any form of violence - but surely
we must recognize that
people caged in, starved and stripped of their essential
material and political
rights must resist their Pharaoh? Surely resistance also
makes us human?
Palestinians have chosen, like we did, the nonviolent
tools of boycott,
divestment and sanctions.</span></i></p>
<p class=""
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-left:36pt;text-align:justify;background-color:white"><span
style="font-family:Arial"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1526&key=university%20of%20johannesburg">http://pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1526&key=university%20of%20johannesburg</a></span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">In the last
few days, as the York Federation of Students joined their
ranks, Palestinian
poet and activist Remi Kanazi made the links between the
BDS motions and the
need to grow the campus divestment campaigns: </span></p>
<p class=""
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-left:36pt"><i><span
style="font-family:Arial;background-color:white">Huge
shout out and congrats to Students Against Israeli
Apartheid at York University!
The York Federation of Students passed the BDS motion
today. That is the 8th
student victory across Canada over the last year, which
is nothing short of
remarkable. Next stop: All campuses implementing
divestment!</span></i><span
style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Faculty 4
Palestine honours the years of struggle that prepared the
ground for these BDS
victories by activists in groups like Students Against
Israeli Apartheid
(SAIA), Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Students
for Palestinian Human
Rights (SPHR) and Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW).
We strongly encourage the SCSU to pass the motion proposed
by TSJP. By endorsing
BDS, UTSC students will ensure that all three campuses at
University of Toronto
are in solidarity for the next steps in mobilizing the
existing campus
divestment campaign. Faculty 4 Palestine
has worked in solidarity with SAIA in launching the U of T
campaign, and will
continue to support the campaign for divestment on all
campuses. We will also continue to work in solidarity
with all student organizations who join the growing wave
of support for BDS action
in the struggle to end Israeli apartheid and for justice
in Palestine.</span><span
style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Sincerely,<a
moz-do-not-send="true" name="_GoBack"></a></span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Faculty 4
Palestine</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span><i><span
lang="EN-CA">Faculty for Palestine (F4P) formed in
spring 2008, and is a committee of
the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) in
Toronto. The network includes
over 550 faculty of all ranks (tenured, contract,
emeritus, independent
researchers, retired, visiting scholars) from over 40
universities and 15
colleges across Canada. F4P endorses and
works in support of BDS, the Right to Education Campaign
(Birzeit University),
and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and
Cultural Boycott of Israeli
(PACBI). </span></i></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i><span
lang="EN-CA">To contact F4P, email us at: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:faculty@caiaweb.org">faculty@caiaweb.org</a></span></i></p>
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