{"id":7301,"date":"2010-09-20T00:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T22:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=7301"},"modified":"2010-09-13T15:21:14","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T13:21:14","slug":"los-angeles-launches-nation%e2%80%99s-first-israel-divestment-campaign-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/09\/los-angeles-launches-nation%e2%80%99s-first-israel-divestment-campaign-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Launches Nation\u2019s First Israel Divestment Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 8th Press Conference in front of the Israeli Consulate to launch California&#8217;s Israel Divestment Campaign. This is the first ballot measure in the nation aimed at changing Israeli policies through divestment by State agencies. It directs California&#8217;s large public employee and teacher pension funds to be consistent with their responsible investing policies and to divest from companies that violate the human rights of Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>The description provided by the office of the Attorney General when it approved the measure for circulation says that the initiative &#8220;prohibits state retirement funds from investing in companies engaged in certain business activities in Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oZjP7Y4p0OI&amp;feature=player_embedded#!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>J<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">oin the BDS-Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions<\/span><\/em> <\/strong>campaign to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation, the apartheid wall, and its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DON&#8217;T BUY<\/strong><\/span> products whose <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>BARCODE<\/strong><strong> STARTS WITH<\/strong> <strong>729<\/strong><\/span>, which indicates that it is produced in Israel. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>7 2 9: BOYCOTT!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 8th Press Conference in front of the Israeli Consulate to launch California&#8217;s Israel Divestment Campaign. This is the first ballot measure in the nation aimed at changing Israeli policies through divestment by State agencies. It directs California&#8217;s large public employee and teacher pension funds to be consistent with their responsible investing policies and to divest from companies that violate the human rights of Palestinians. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}