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by Jonny Paul, February 14th Israeli flower exporters claimed Valentines Day victory Wednesday following a two-day demonstration by anti-Israel activists attempting to disrupt Israeli produce from leaving the UK headquarters of Carmel-Agrexco. Last weekend activists gathered, some chaining themselves to ...
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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 »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 »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 ...
Read More »Caterpillar homewrecker’s visit to London
from Indymedia UK, November 24th On Wednesday 22nd November around 50 protesters, including the Rhythms of Resistance samba band, turned out to ‘greet’ Michael Baunton, the Vice President of Caterpillar. He was due to speak at the Institute of Mechanical ...
Read More »Al Haq: Legal challenge to British government support of Israel
Al-Haq press release, November 15th Al-Haq is cooperating with solicitor Phil Shiner of the Public Interest Lawyers firm (PIL) as part of its efforts to secure the implementation of the July 2004 International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on Israel’s ...
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