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CNN on the growing cultural boycott
[vodpod id=ExternalVideo.954189&w=425&h=350&fv=] CNN on the growing cultural boycott, posted with vodpod
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Palestinian boycott of Israeli settlement goods starts to bite
Campaign to clear supermarket shelves of West Bank settlement wares forces Israeli factories to cut production Harriet Sherwood in Ramallah guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 29 June 2010 11.08 BST Israeli factories based in settlements on the West Bank have been forced to cut back production as a growing Palestinian boycott movement begins to take effect. The boycott, […]
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After the Flotilla Massacre: Cultural Boycott of Israel Takes Off
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), established in April 2004 by a small group of Palestinian academics and intellectuals and widely supported by leading civil society associations, unions and networks,[1] has not witnessed a sustained surge in cultural boycott of Israel as in the last year and a half, […]
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Turkey: All-Inclusive Boycott Of Israel
By DAVID BEDEIN, Middle East Correspondent Friday, June 18, 2010 JERUSALEM – The relationship between Israel and its long-standing friend in the region, which has deteriorated consistently over the past several months, has now reached a new low. The Turkish ambassador to Israel, who was recalled to Ankara after the May 31 flotilla takeover, in […]
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Workers Stand Against Israeli Apartheid
Workers Stand Against Israeli Apartheid 48 min. 2010 Labor Video Project In a historic labor/community protest on June 20, 2010, more than five hundred people joined picket lines in the Port of Oakland SSA terminal to call on ILWU Local 10 and ILWU Local 34 members not to cross the picket lines and work the […]
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Swansea City Council resolve to exclude Veolia from future contracts
Breakthrough! On 17 June Swansea City Council passed a resolution to exclude Veolia from all future contracts. Swansea is the second largest city in Wales. This is highly significant. It is the first time that a council in UK has passed such a resolution. To our knowledge the only local authorities in Europe to pass […]
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Under pressure, Pride Toronto reverses censorship of “Israeli apartheid”
Posted on June 24 2010 by Cecilie Surasky We”ve written extensively about the pressure campaign led in part by Canada”s B”nai Brith to ban the group Queers United Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) from all Pride Toronto events including the LGBTQI pride parade, the Dyke and Trans marches. B”nai Brith boasted in a May press release: […]
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British trade union calls for boycott
By JONNY PAUL 06/24/2010 22:27 One of UK’s largest unions votes for boycott, expelling Israeli envoy. One of Britain”s largest trade unions passed a motion at its annual conference in Bournemouth last week accusing Israel of lying over the Gaza flotilla incident and has called for a complete boycott of Israel and for the expulsion […]
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Swedish dockworkers boycott Israel
Swedish dockworkers have launched a week-long boycott of cargo to and from Israel to protest against the raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that killed nine people last month. About 1,500 members of the Swedish Dockworkers Union began the boycott on Wednesday across the country’s ports, which handle more than 95 per cent of Sweden’s […]
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US Social Forum cancels exploitative Zionist workshop
Press release, “Al-Awda, NY”, Arab American Action Network, Arab Resource and Organizing Center, Arab American Union Members Council, Arab Youth Organization, Bay Area Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid, Desis Rising and Moving, Palestine Youth Network, US Palestinian Community Network, Middle East Children’s Alliance, South West Asia North Africa Bay Area Queers, General Union of Palestine […]
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