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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
                face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br>
              </font></b></span></div>
        <div style="font-size:13px;text-align:left"><font
            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
              style="line-height:17px"><br>
            </span></font></div>
        <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 &amp; Information Session</a></strong>
          <div style="font-size:11px;color:gray;font-family:'lucida
            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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        <p style="font-size:13px"><font color="#1d1d1d" face="Lucida
            Grande"><b>*******************************************</b></font></p>
        <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>
          <p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
              style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Arial">**********************************************************</span></p>
          <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&amp;key=university%20of%20johannesburg">http://pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1526&amp;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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