{"id":184,"date":"2014-10-24T06:07:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T06:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sydneystaff4bds.org\/?p=184"},"modified":"2014-10-28T08:26:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T08:26:21","slug":"building-the-bds-campaign-in-the-nteu-cross-campus-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sydneystaff4bds.org\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Building the BDS Campaign in the NTEU: Cross-Campus Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014 the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) call has emerged as a focus of debate in the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). The narrow defeat for BDS at the <a title=\"A Close Call for BDS at the NTEU National Council\" href=\"https:\/\/sydneystaff4bds.org\/?p=159\">recent National Council<\/a> of the NTEU indicates the potential for Palestine solidarity activists on campus to win the NTEU to a pro-BDS policy. Yet as our campaign widens among NTEU members, and gains varying degrees of institutional support, we will inevitably confront new challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Sydney Staff for BDS invites all supporters of the BDS call to a meeting on November 6 to discuss the state of the BDS campaign on campus and in our union, and the next steps for 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goals:<\/strong> What should be the goals of the BDS campaign at Australia\u2019s universities? What role can the NTEU play in realising these goals?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Organisation:<\/strong> What sort of cross-campus collaboration do we need? How can we best share resources and information? Is it time for a nation-wide pro-BDS network in the NTEU?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strategy:<\/strong> What has been the experience of BDS activists within the NTEU so far? What approach should we take to campaign work in 2015, particularly in the lead-up to National Council 2015?<\/p>\n<p>We welcome all NTEU members with an interest in promoting BDS on campus. Please circulate this announcement, and bring along any colleagues who may be interested in this event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date &amp; time:<\/strong> November 6, 6-8pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> University of Technology, Sydney: CB11.04.101. The room is on Level 4, room 101 in the new Engineering and IT building (Building 11, or \u2018the cheesegrater\u2019) on Broadway down from the tower.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact:\u00a0<\/strong>David Brophy (david.brophy@sydney.edu.au; 0434 026 003)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014 the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) call has emerged as a focus of debate in the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). The narrow defeat for BDS at the recent National Council of the NTEU indicates the potential for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sydneystaff4bds.org\/?p=184\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneystaff4bds.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneystaff4bds.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneystaff4bds.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneystaff4bds.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneystaff4bds.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sydneystaff4bds.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/sydneystaff4bds.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneystaff4bds.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneystaff4bds.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneystaff4bds.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}