Tag: Global Actions

  • Ma’ariv: Leviev’s Diamonds at the Oscars

    By Gal Karniel 2/24/08 | Ma’ariv on-line (Israel) (Translation by Adalah-NY) Human rights organizations around the world warn against wearing Angolan diamonds at the Oscar ceremony. Again Leviev is in the headlines. Leviev is loaning Oscar nominees jewelry for the award ceremony tonight organized by the U.S. film academy (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…

  • IMEMC: Dozens of protests held worldwide calling for an end to Gaza siege

    by Saed Bannoura In partnership with Popular Committee Against the Siege (PCAS), Friends of freedom and Justice-Bilin, and Gaza On My Mind, dozens of groups worldwide held protests in solidarity with the people of Gaza on Saturday February 23rd. Participating nations include France, UK, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, Canada, USA, Russia,…

  • Yedioth Ahronoth: Polished Protest

    By Yaniv Halili, our correspondent in New York (Translation from Hebrew by Adalah-NY) February 10, 2008 London and New York: Demonstrations Opposite Lev Leviev’s Jewelry Stores “Lev Leviev’s diamonds are a crime’s best friends.” This was not the least of that which around 100 demonstrators chanted yesterday outside Lev Leviev’s diamond boutique on elite Madison…

  • Protesters Blockade Israeli State Owned Company

    For IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press contact: 07986 764432 07745 817822 thewallmustfall@riseup.net 11 February 2007 From around 3pm today Palestine solidarity demonstrators have been blockading Carmel Agrexco’s U.K headquarters in Swallowfield Way, Hayes, Middlesex to highlight the company’s human rights record in occupied Palestine. Protesters were met with violent assaults by Agrexco security guards who smashed a…

  • Adalah-NY: New York & London protesters call for Valentine’s boycott of Leviev over Israeli Settlements

    For the original article, click here. New York, NY, Feb 9, 2008 – Forty-five protesters called on Madison Avenue shoppers to boycott the jewelry store of Israeli billionaire and settlement magnate Lev Leviev this Saturday, the last major shopping day before Valentine’s Day. The protest was the seventh organized by the New York activist group…