Saturday, October 1, 2005
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Seva Brodsky: The Battle for Divestment from Israeli Securities in Somerville - '...During the summer of 2003, Ron Francis, a young high school teacher, founded the Somerville Divestment Project. He had previously been politically opposed to Israel. At the end of 2002 he took an active part in a boycott of Wordsworth, one of the last independent bookstores in Cambridge, Massachusetts, because its owner Hillel Stavis had stopped contributing funds to National Public Radio in protest against their anti-Israeli bias. The activists picketed the store for a week, effectively disrupting the business...' (Link)
