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Report Back: The Mud Squad is back!
This is a great example of how three people can run an effective local BDS action. Ahava promises Beauty Secrets from the Dead Sea. But the real secrets it keeps are an ugly truth–its products actually come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the Occupied Territory of the Palestinian West Bank, and are produced in […]
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New Campaign Launch: Full ban on settlement goods (UK)
Dear Friend, In the 43rd year of Israel”s occupation of Palestine, the repression of its people is worse than ever. This must end. The Palestinians have a right to live with dignity, free from occupation. To coincide with the call for a Global Day of Action on 30 March 2010, made by the Palestinian Boycott […]
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Land Day marked across the world with actions calling for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions of Israel
March 30, 2010 www.bdsmovement.net www.bdsdayofaction.wordpress.com Land Day marked across the world with actions calling for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions of Israel BNC, Occupied Palestine – As Palestinians commemorated Land Day, solidarity activists around the world took to the streets to call for a comprehensive campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it […]
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Pixes Could Croon for Apartheid
The Pixies have a concert booked in Tel-Aviv, Palestine-Israel. The concert announcements makes no mention Apartheid Israel”s ongoing colonial dispossession and discrimination against the Palestinian people, and as such would break the Cultural Boycott of Israel. Israeli activists from the group Boycott! from Within (BFW) initiated a campaign requesting that the Boston band honor the […]
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7 ways to stop musical “˜ambassadors’ for Israel
Sarah Cobhma | 29.03.2010 20:17 | Palestine Protesters in London disrupted a Live Radio 3 broadcast of the Jerusalem Quartet. They drew attention to the Quartet”s strong links to the Israeli Army, Israel”s crimes against the Palestinians, particularly its illegal occupation of Palestinian land, its ethnic cleansing of East Jerusalem, the apartheid nature of the […]
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Swedish Retirement Fund Boycotts Elbit Israeli Military Systems Company
The Israeli Army electronics company “Elbit systems” has been barred by the Fí¶rsta AP-Fonden pension fund, the biggest pensions fund in Sweden. The pensions fund decided to boycott Elbit on Ethical grounds. The fund said that Elbit systems is involved in the operation of the surveillance system installed on the Annexation Wall in the occupied […]
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Boycott Israel campaign hits Chapters and Mountain Equipment Co-op
On March 30, 2010 the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) marked the Global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Day of Action with flash mobs at Chapters Indigo and Mountain Equipment Coop (MEC). BDS Day of Action In 2005, over 170 Palestinian civil society organizations called on people of conscience around the world to join a […]
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Israeli Boycott Campaign- Set to Kick off on 30th March
A coalition of Palestinian solidarity movements are tightening their plans for a major Israeli boycott campaign, set to kick off on Tuesday 30th March. Consumers will be urged to boycott all Israeli products as part of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, in protest of the government’s expanding Zionist policies, which has seen tensions […]
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Health workers and advocates support call for U of Arizona to divest
Press release, UA Health for Human Rights, 30 March 2010 The following press release was issued on 30 March 2010 by UA Health for Human Rights, an ad hoc group formed by the broader University Community for Human Rights, a student-led board leading divestment initiatives at the University of Arizona: A joint group of more […]
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