Online, 6 pm CT

Noam Perry, of American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) will discuss the weapons used by Israel to carry out their assaults on Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria, as well as the military contractors who provide such weapons. Learn about divestment campaigns, specifically MAPA’s divestment campaign focused on pressuring the Mass. State Pension Fund and Massachusetts Universities to divest their holding in companies that provide these weapons to Israel, and the bill MAPA is sponsoring in the state legislature to divest the Mass. State Pension Plan from companies selling weapons to Israel.

Noam Perry is AFSC’s Economic Activism associate and one of the creators of Investigate, AFSC’s project that aims to expose corporate involvement in oppressive state violence structures and to promote standards for corporate social responsibility and respect for human rights. Its research efforts focus on corporations involved in incarceration and immigrant detention, the Israeli occupation, and the border industries.

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