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While the pandemic greatly disrupted campus activities in 2020, the student governments of at least three universities managed to focus their efforts to pass BDS resolutions, bills that asked their respective universities to divest from holdings of companies doing business with Israel.
At the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, that school’s resolution “called on the university to divest from Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Company, Lockheed Martin, Caterpillar Inc. and Elbit Systems Ltd. for what the resolution alleges is partaking in human rights violations in the Palestinian territories. . . .” Additionally, in a twist that forced Jewish students to choose between supportin
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the eastbound commute has kicked in to full gear. and there is slow, things are moving. a hayward jury awarded the children of convicted killer hans riser $60 million for damages in the loss of their mother. this verdict read before noon today, riser convicted of murder in 2008 for the death of his wife. the jury ward each child $25 million for pain and suffering and 10sed million in punitive damage autos we wanted to make darn sure the children would have the psychological help they needed for the rest of their lives and these children will probably never be able to go into the work force. we wanted to make sure this would take care of the children for the rest of their lives. and he thinks riser might be able to come up with valuable ideas in prison because of his background. san francisco police hope a new sketch will help them find a suspect in an unsolved murder case. that sketch is of a man with a thin build and long dreads last seen getting into a pantock grand a
in hmos. this morning this morning s attack hit the billing in damascus during a meeting. some of those officials were seriously wounded. the fighting is an unprecedented challenge to president bashar assad. rebels are trying to bring down the regime by force. activists say more than 17,000 people have been kill since the uprising against assad began in march. 2011. today the u.n. security council is expected to vote on a new resolution to end this 17 month long civil war. 4:32 now. later today a key player will take center stage before the panel deciding fate of ross mirkarimi. his wife traveled up from her native venezuela to testify about allegations that he assaulted her. terry mcsweeney is live at city hall. reporter: without question eliana lopez the star witness in the hearing that continues today. she back from venezuela with their son theo. take a look at her, it was an argument over her going to venezuela with her son that lead to mirkarimi s troubles and the ar
than twice what they asked for the in the murder of their mother. nooen a two children will get more than 60 million dollars from their father who is noted computer programmer. abc 7 news reporter smith was in the courtroom today and has reaction. these are 2 wonderful results by 2 jury one in criminal case an one in the civil case. family very appreciative and grateful. reporter: alameda county jury awarded the children of convicted killer riser 60 million dollars. according to the family attorney vipd indicated the woman who died at his hands. i can t tell you how happy we are right now. when you fight a case like this for 4 years and you have jurors come back and dot right thing like this it s a wonderful thing about our system of justice. reporter: riser serve ago term of 15 years to live for killing his wife in september 2006. their children 12-year-old and 11-year-old seen here in photo provided by their attorney filed suit for 25 million dollars in the loss of th