Tag: Global Actions

  • Ha’aretz: Democracy is more than going to the polls

    By: Amira Hass October 2nd, 2007 “The protest wave has calmed down,” some Israeli journalists said Friday of the Burmese military junta’s success in driving thousands of demonstrators off the streets, using excessive violence. Despite the natural sympathy for the uprisers, several editors chose the word “calm,” which embodies the rulers’ point of view: The…

  • AL-HAQ: UK High Court to hear legal challenge to UK arms sales to Israel

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UK High Court of Justice to Hear Legal Challenge on UK Sale of Arms-Related Equipment to Israel 19 September 2007 A full public hearing will be held before the UK High Court of Justice in London on 10 -11 October 2007 in the case of R (Saleh Hasan) v Secretary of State…

  • Press Release: Activists Invade Agrexco Carmel

    15 July 2007 This afternoon a group of Palestine solidarity protesters entered the main UK warehouse of Israeli company Carmel Agrexco in Uxbridge, Middlesex. Their action is part of the growing movement to boycott Israeli apartheid, which aims to end Israel’s breach of International law and abuse of human rights in the occupied territories of…