"Summer In The Streets" for Palestine kicks off with theater, song and dance in New York City
Worldwide Activism, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
July 2nd, 2009 -- Twenty New York activists protested, sang and performed skits near a street fair at Greeley Square in Manhattan last Saturday, calling for a boycott of communications giant Motorola until it stops providing technology to the Occupation army and settlement project. It was the third action organized by the New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel (NYCBI) and the first of a planned series of summer actions around the city to publicize the campaign. [MORE]
Stop the implementation of Agrexco on the Port of Sète, France
Worldwide Activism, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
July 1st, 2009 -- Last January, Georges Frêche, the President of the Luanguedoc-Roussillon region announced the setting-up of Agrexco on the port of Sète, promising with it the creation of jobs along with incoming profits. The setting up Agrexco on the port of Sète has sparked controversy among the French population. A total of fifty organisations have joined the coalition against Agrexco in an attempt to stop its implementation in the region. Protests have taken place on June 25 to denounce the matter, and further action is being planned by the growing coalition. [MORE]
BDS Newsletter #15 - May 2009
Worldwide Activism, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
June 30th, 2009 -- This edition of the Stop the Wall BDS newsletter covers various protests in support of BDS, particularly against Lev Leviev, the Egypt – Israel gas deal and arms merchants. Also covered is Norway’s move towards supporting BDS, various cases of legal activism pursing war crimes charges and various developments with the arms trade. [MORE]
Produce boycott crosses the Atlantic
Latest News, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
June 30th, 2009 -- On Saturday, June 20, activists gathered at Trader Joe’s grocery stores in Oakland and San Francisco to demand that the company stop carrying Israeli goods. Protesters removed Israeli products from the shelves, distributed leaflets about Israeli apartheid, and handed out coupons for customers to give to cashiers asking the store to stop stocking Israeli herbs, couscous, and cheese. The Trader Joe’s initiative, one of the first consumer boycott initiatives of this scale in the US, was met with resistance by Zionist organizations who tried to discredit the campaign. [MORE]
Connex “dumped” after 4 month boycott campaign
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June 29th, 2009 -- In another major victory for the global 'Derail Veoloa and Alstom' campaign and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Australia, the Victorian State Government has chosen not to renew Connex' (a subsidiary of Veolia) contract as the train system operator in Melbourne Australia. This is no doubt partly due to the efforts of the 'Dump Connex' campaign in Australia. Australians for Palestine campaigned for four months and distributed some 100,000 pamphlets encouraging people to join the campaign and petition the government to cut its ties with Connex. This is one of many victories in a campaign that has seen Veolia lose approximately 7 billion dollars in contracts. [MORE]
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