International Solidarity Movement Nonviolence. Justice. Freedom.
by Ellis Weintraub and Laura Rheinheimer, February 13th To hurt the high-volume sales of Israeli flowers on Valentine’s Day in the United Kingdom, three anti-Israel protesters chained themselves to a fence over the weekend outside the distribution site of Carmel-Agrexco ...
Read More »Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions – Palestinian Trade Union Call upon International Labor Movement
by the Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign The Palestinian Trade unions have given out a Call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions endorsed by: * the General Union of Palestinian Workers (GUPW). * the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU). ...
Read More »Second Day of Action against Israeli Company Importing Valentine’s Day Flowers
CARMEL-AGREXCO BLOCKADED Thirteen Palestine solidarity protesters from London and Brighton are blockading the UK base of an Israeli agricultural export company Agrexco (UK) Ltd, Swallowfield Way, Hayes, Middlesex. This is the second day of action against Agrexco on one of ...
Read More »The Third Annual Apartheid Week comes to New York
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The 3rd annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) will take place in New York City from February 10-17 2007. It will be a week-long series of events organized by a coalition of different groups in the city and ...
Read More »Boycott Israeli Apartheid Vigil in Los Angeles
by Women in Black Los Angeles, February 5th In the hour and a half before Monday’s Los Angeles performance of the Israel Philharmonic at Disney Hall, candlelight illuminated more than 60 black-clad protestors standing silently in front of downtown’s Disney ...
Read More »The Guardian: “Time to get serious about Israel”
by John Hilary, January 31st You know that things are serious when a parliamentary select committee puts out a call for sanctions against another sovereign state. Doubly so when that state is supposed to be one of Britain’s key allies ...
Read More »The Guardian: “A doctor’s call”
by Victoria Brittain, January 30th Mona el-Farra, a Palestinian doctor working in Gaza should have been in London this evening, launching a campaign for peace between Israelis and Palestinians based on recognition of international law. The campaign, simply called “Enough”, ...
Read More »Don’t Flirt with the Occupation – February 10th Mass Demonstration Against Carmel-Agrexco in London
by Boycott Israeli Goods Agrexco is Israel’s largest exporter of fresh agricultural produce. The company is 50% owned by the Israeli state. Agrexco accounts for 70% ofIsraeli fresh produce sold abroad with annual sales of $750 million in 2006. Agrexco ...
Read More »Candlelight Vigils Outside the Israel Philharmonic Concerts in Los Angeles
a Women in Black vigil outside the Disney Hall on January 14th FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Local Peace and Human Rights Group to Hold Silent Candlelight Vigils Outside the Israel Philharmonic Concerts at Disney Hall Monday, Feb. 5th, and Tuesday, Feb. ...
Read More »Carmel-Agrexco’s UK headquarters blockaded for the third time
from Indymedia UK, November 27th For the second time this year [previous action], Palestine Solidarity activists blockaded Israeli company Carmel-Agrexco’s UK headquarters in Hayes, Middlesex, in the early morning of 26 Nov 2006 [press release]. The action was part of ...
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