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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Divestment could hit city ballot
A nonbinding question on divestment from publicly held Israeli bonds could be headed for the ballot in a city near Boston this November.
Aldermen in Somerville failed to take action before Aug. 9 on putting the question on the ballot. Now the Somerville Divestment Project has until Sept. 26 to submit signatures from 10 percent of the city’s 39,665 registered voters, to be certified by the city’s election commission, according to the commission chairman, Nicholas Salerno.
The commission has issued a petition form to be used by the Divestment Project, citing legal concerns over the group’s signature-gathering practices.
“We are happy that the city has enforced the law and this ballot petition will be conducted fairly,” said Alan Ronkin, the deputy director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Boston, who is working closely with the Somerville Coalition for Middle East Peace to head off the ballot question.
Dressing down bias on campus
Abercrombie & Fitch will partner with the Anti-Defamation League to bring anti-bias programming to U.S. college campuses.
The clothing retailer will join the ADL in promoting A Campus of Difference, a diversity training program to be launched at Washington University in St. Louis on Aug. 18 and then on several other campuses. “We are proud to be able to bring diversity education to some of the nation’s most respected institutions of higher learning through this unique partnership with Abercrombie & Fitch,” said the ADL’s associate national director, Caryl Stern. “To its credit, Abercrombie & Fitch has taken the lead as a responsible corporation concerned not only about diversity in retailing, but in confronting bias and prejudice in the larger society and especially among young people at our nation’s premier institutions of higher learning.”
Todd Corley, vice president for diversity at Abercrombie & Fitch, said the initiative would be important to help “support the dialogue among college students about the importance of appreciating differences.”
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