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Report back from Ireland
Ireland – Fri 9th – Sun 11th July 2010 The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) used the opportunity International Boycott Weekend to launch a two-week petition drive seeking to enlist Dunnes Stores customers in Ireland to support the call for a boycotting Israeli products. Our aim is to gather more than 4,000 signatures in this short […]
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PSC (UK) report back
PSC organised a supermarket action to mark the fifth anniversary of the BNC”s call for boycott, divestment and sanctions on July 9th. Journalists from Channel Four and Al Jazeera joined representatives from some of Britain”s largest trade unions, Unite, Unison and PCS outside Tesco”s in central London to urge shoppers to boycott Israeli goods. PSC […]
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UK report back
A national call went out for a phone in to two of the major supermarket chains, Morrisons and Sainsbury, asking individuals to call in to the complaints lines and complain about the supermarkets” continued sale of Israeli goods, including those grown on settlements. A number of protests were organised either on the 9th, or in […]
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THE CITY COUNCIL OF VILLANUEVA DE DUERO (VALLADOLID, SPAIN) REMOVES THE ISRAELI BOTTLED WATER “˜EDEN’ FROM ITS BUILDINGS
Platform of Solidarity with Palestine-Valladolid Valladolid.- The City Council of Villanueva de Duero -a town of the Spanish province of Valladolid- has removed the Israeli bottled water Eden Springs Ltd. from all the municipal buildings. With this decision, the City Council joins to the International Movement of Boycott, Desinvestments and Sanctions (BDS) against the State […]
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Leftfield, Don’t Cross the BDS Picket Line
“How many lives can they take, till we break?” “How many homes set alight, till we fight?” Dear Leftfield, We, a group of Israeli citizens, are writing to you today, as your words of protest resonate with their relevance in light of the deadly raid on a flotilla attempting to break the illegal siege and […]
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Church of England reviews stake in Israeli rail
Simon Rocker, The Jewish Chronicle 8 July 2010 The Church of England is reviewing its investment in a company building Jerusalem’s light railway amid concern that the tramline “will help to cement Israel’s hold on occupied east Jerusalem”. But the Church has stopped short of endorsing a campaign urged by Palestinian churches to boycott “everything […]
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AHAVA protest in Brooklyn
On Friday, CODEPINK NYC and Adalah-NY joined Brooklyn for Peace outside the Ricky’s store in Brooklyn for a BOYCOTT AHAVA protest. The event was covered in the Brooklyn Paper, the Brooklyn Courier, The New York Post, and on WPIX: Channel 11 local TV. There is currently a “buycott” going on (you can see evidence in […]
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Stockholm report back
July 12, 2010 Stockholm marked the five year anniversary of the BDS call on the 10th since it was Saturday and thus the busiest day of the week on the streets of Stockholm. Around 30 people carried out a BDS Flasmob, dressed in red t-shirts with the message: “Boycott Israel” on the front and “Boycott, […]
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Berlin, 9th July 2010: BDS Group Berlin protests against Drones in front of the office of German Armaments Group Rheinmetall
On Friday, 9th July the BDS (Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions) Group Berlin called for a protest in front of the Berlin office of the German Armaments Group Rheinmetall against the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (“Drones”) in different wars in the Near and Middle East. Among others members of these groups took part in the manifestation: activists of […]
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