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Hang Up On Motorola – Drop the Droid
“Drop the Droid”: Our Spoof of Motorola Droid commercial is just like the real one, only….more real Remember the totally surreal commercial for Motorola’s new ‘Droid’ phone that we posted about a little while ago? You know, the one showing Stealth bombers rocketing unsuspecting motorists, farmers, and fisherman with new phone technology, just like actual […]
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Met Zwarte Piet in Amsterdam (aka more from the Boycott Ahava Dutch Bathrobes Brigade in Amsterdam
Tijdens de natte dagen voor de verjaardag van de Sint gingen de meiden van de Badjassenbrigade vanavond weer met Zwarte Piet de straat op. Dit keer trokken zij zingend door de winkelstraten van Amsterdam. Met een in het roze gestoken Zwarte Piet en nieuwe liedjes op het repertoire ontlokten zij veel positieve reacties.
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Israel privatises the occupation
The Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories has become a corporate grab of land and labour, with any claimed security, political or religious justifications nothing more than a smokescreen for profiteering. Penny Cole reports for A World to Win Palestinians face a “deadly political paradox”, explains Salwa Alenat of Kav LaOved (Workers” Hotline) at a meeting […]
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Columbia Sportswear agrees to “˜immediately and permanently discontinue’ ad campaign marketing to settlers
by Adam Horowitz on December 3, 2009 Last week we posted a Columbia Sportwear marketing campaign directed at Israeli settlers. Peter Miller, a member of the Portland-based organization Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights, took it upon himself to contact Columbia to voice his displeasure. To his surprise, Columbia responded the next day and announced […]
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Tell the Department of Energy to sanction, not award, Motorola Israel
Stop your tax dollars from subsidizing Motorola Israel! Last week, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that it will award $900,000 to Motorola Israel and SmartSynch for a joint project to develop an energy grid management system. The Department of Energy should not be rewarding Motorola Israel with this contract; instead it should be sanctioning […]
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Update on AFPS court case against Véolia and Alstom
After the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Nanterre (High Court of Nanterre) has declared that it has jurisdiction to hear the legal claim brought by AFPS against Véolia transport, Alstom and Alstom transport regarding the construction and operation of a light railway in East Jerusalem, Alstom and Alstom transport contest this decision in front of […]
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The Case Against Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories
Nancy Kricorian, 1 December 2009 Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories (www.ahava.co.il) is a privately held Israeli cosmetics company that manufactures products using minerals and mud from the Dead Sea. The company”s main factory and its visitors” center are located in the Israeli settlement of Mitzpe Shalem in the Occupied West Bank. (All Israeli settlements in the […]
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Boycott of Ahava Dead Sea products makes an impact
Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 2 December 2009 The international campaign to boycott Ahava beauty products has recently won the support of a Dutch parliamentarian and an Israeli peace group. During the past few months, activists in Canada, the UK, Ireland, Israel, the United States and the Netherlands have campaigned against the sale of Ahava […]
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Bathrobes Brigade Boycott Ahava
Bathrobes Brigade protests against Ahava’s stolen beauty products. Ahava products are made in an Israeli settlement in occupied Palestine. The products are sold as ‘made in Israel’. Read more on www.stolenbeauty.org or http://mooiniet.wordpress.com (in Dutch).
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What can I do to support CAIA’s boycott of Indigo Books and Music Inc?
CAIA (Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid) launched the campaign to boycott Indigo Books and Music Inc. in December 2006 with the demand that its controlling owners, Heather Reisman and Gerry Shwartz, publicly cut all financial ties Heseg – Foundation for Lone Soldiers. Since then the campaign has grown in Toronto and across Canada with Chapters and […]
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