Congratulations to @geogboycott.bsky.social for this win!!! Unfortunately, like the ASA, the AAG has chosen to block democractic procedures for a vote on an academic boycott. @asanews.bsky.social and AAG, let us vote!
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Please join us for our final two organized sessions at #AAG2026! #geography #geosky
at 10:10am, Black Geographies and Palestinian Liberation
and at 12:50pm, No Geographic Technology for Apartheid
please join us for two sessions at #AAG2026 today! #geosky
at 10:10am, "Resisting Scholasticide in Palestine"
at 12:50pm, "Israeli Regional Counterinsurgency & Normalization"
Great showing (out the door!) at Reem’s California Mission for the zine party! Thanks for organizing, @geogboycott.bsky.social!
please join us for two sessions at #AAG2026 today! #geosky
at 10:10am, "Resisting Scholasticide in Palestine"
at 12:50pm, "Israeli Regional Counterinsurgency & Normalization"
zine party starting imminently!!
our first panel starts in about an hour! join us to learn more about the BDS movement #aag2026 #geosky
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) welcomed "AAG’s significant steps toward becoming a more ethical association, including divesting its funds from companies complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide."
Deborah Cowen, professor at University of Toronto’s Department of Geography and Planning, described the divestment policy as “a crucial step toward transforming AAG into a professional organization that reflects its members’ values.”
As the American Association of Geographers meets starting today in San Francisco, Geographers for Justice in Palestine invite media and allies to learn more about our campaign
The release can also be found at
www.geog4pal.org/news/
Press release -- American Association of Geographers Divests From Firms Facilitating Israel's Genocide and Apartheid, but Falls Short on Academic Boycott, Membership Democracy San Francisco, CA – March 17, 2026 the full release can be read at https://www.geog4pal.org/news/
For immediate release: American Association of Geographers Divests From Firms Facilitating Israel's Genocide and Apartheid, but Falls Short on Academic Boycott, Membership Democracy #geography #aag2026 #geosky
Tuesday 3/17: ✦ Migrant and Refugee Food Geographies 2 (10:10-11:30 AM) ✦ The Geographies and Ecologies of Counter/Insurgency 3 (12:50-2:10 PM) ✦ Human Geography & Middle East Spciality Group Plenary Lecture (2:30-3:50 PM) Wednesday 3/18: ✦ Tourism After Capital (8:30-9:50 AM) ✦ Mapping and Counter-Mapping Genocide (4:10-5:30 PM) ✦ Techno-Capitalism, Empire, and the State (4:10-5:30 PM) ✦ Queer and Trans Futurities (4:10-5:30 PM) Thursday 3/19: ✦ Archiving the Present: The Professoriate in Times of Genocide (8:30-9:50 AM)
Thursday 3/19 cont’d: ✦ Paul Kohlbry’s Plots and Deeds: Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for Land Justice in Palestine (2:30-3:50 PM) ✦ Geography in a Time of Genocide and Fascism (4:10-5:30 PM) Friday 3/20: ✦ Agrarian Racial Capitalism 2 (10:10-11:30 AM) ✦ Public Geographies of Palestine (10:10-11:30 AM) ✦ Afterlives of Authoritarianism (10:10-11:30 AM) ✦ Reclaiming Narratives, Rooting Connections, and Healing Memory Amidst Disposession (12:50-2:10 PM) Saturday 3/21: ✦ Homelands and Diasporas: Palestinian Community-Making in the Bay Area (1-8 PM) (field visit)
dozens of further sessions at AAG (not organized by GJP) will examine Palestinian liberation in their content
Geographers for Justice in Palestine I BDS and the AAG Date 3/17/2025 Time 10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Geographers for Justice in Palestine II Resisting Scholasticide in Palestine Date 3/18/2025 Time 10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Geographers for Justice in Palestine III Israeli Regional Counterinsurgency & Normalization Date 3/18/2025 Time 12:50 PM - 2:10 PM Geographers for Justice in Palestine IV Black Geographies and Palestinian Liberation Date 3/19/2025 Time 10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Geographers for Justice in Palestine V No Geographic Technology for Apartheid Date 3/19/2025 Time 12:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Zine Launch and Community Gathering GJP Special Event Date 3/17/2025 Time 6:30 PM - 9 PM RSVP at https://linktr.ee/geog4pal
GJP has organized five panels concerning BDS, scholasticide, Israeli regional politics, Black geographies and Palestinian liberation, and the use of geosciences in war. We also invite you to a Zine release launch on Tuesday evening; RSVP at linktr.ee/geog4pal
a green and red title graphic: "geographers for justice in palestine's guide to AAG 2026 sessions and events"
attending #AAG next week? check out Geographers for Justice in Palestine's organized sessions and events! also available at geog4pal.org/aag
we are aware of the release of "AAG’s Response to the Member Petition on Israel–Palestine" -- be sure to sign up for our newsletter for our response
www.geog4pal.org/join/
New book review -- Rama Ali Kased and Tony Marks-Block read Wasim Said's "Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide: A Testimony from Gaza" antipodeonline.org/category/boo...
Birzeit University affirms that education will remain an act of anti-colonial resistance, and that the University will continue to be a space for knowledge and freedom, despite all attempts at repression and aggression.
www.birzeit.edu/en/news/stat...
reminder -- today is the last day to comment on AAG's "background report" on BDS!
reminder -- today is the last day to comment on AAG's "background report" on BDS!
you will need to log in to your AAG account to gain access to the link above
Today at 3pm EST, join us at an AAG Listening Session regarding “an academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions, and for financial disclosure and divestment of AAG funds in corporations or state institutions profiting from the oppression of Palestinian people.”
www.aag.org/events/aag-m...
important context on Morningstar, whose "human rights" and other ESG screening tools are used on AAG investments
jewishcurrents.org/how-a-giant-...
we'll be discussing the "background report" released by AAG, what to do at SF AAG 2026, and the broader campaign for BDS and Palestinian liberation! Visit our linktree to sign up.
linktr.ee/geog4pal
Save the Date for the People's Special Meeting -- Oct 17 12PM EDT
Join us for the People's Special Meeting to discuss what BDS and solidarity should look like in the AAG!
Reminder -- the AAG "webinar" concerning our BDS petition begins today at 12pm ET (about 2 hours from now). Log in to your AAG account and then click the link below to access the member portal and the Zoom link.
www.aag.org/events/aag-m...
On October 3, AAG will release an authoritative history of member organization which will try to diminsh the existence or importance of this history. While not all of these resolutions passed and while none of them were without AAG council organization, they clearly demonstrate a decades-long democratic undercurrent in our organization which we recognize as a lineage to be resuscitated.
we anticipate that AAG's "authoritative history" will attempt to diminish the importance and meaning of a history of member-driven advocacy within the organization. though not every member vote was successful, we think it's important to note member opinion *was* important enough to be consulted - !!
a graphic describes that "At certain points, the council would decide to consult members via a mail ballot. Under prior bylaws, the council could also be forced to recall their decisions by member petition and vote. This process was considered archaic in the 1990s due to the internet, but the bylaw changes instituted clearly diminished the vibrancy of member participation and democracy in our organization."
we think it's particularly important to remember and recover this vibrant history -- BDS efforts are by no means unprecedented
A graphic shows a portion of "An open letter to members of the association" concerning the Equal Rights Amendment boycott. The graphic highlights the position taken that “Even a decision to hold oneself above the fray in some ivory tower is a profoundly political act, a vote to uphold the status quo, whatever that may happen to be.”
the graphic highlights a portion of the reporting concerning the resolution against US funding of contra insurgency against Nicaragua.
The graphic highlights the resolution against nuclear proliferation and war. An excerpt is highlighted describing that “Geographers, whose professional objectives include understanding the nature and implications of human interaction with all aspects of their global environment, have a special responsibility to express urgent warning of the risks to humanity inherent in the present course of world events.”
some of these past efforts include resolutions to boycot states that had not passed the Equal Rights Amendment, to take a position against US funding of contras in Nicaragua, and against nuclear war.