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Activists with a group called Move Over AIPAC protesting the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) stranglehold on the US Congress... in style and song in DC's Union Station.
Flashmobs have definitely made a come back in the world of activism, for better or worse.
The US gives Israel $3 billion in military aid a year. That hasn't brought peace to the region. That hasn't made Israel or Palestine safer. Rather it keeps us all on the brink of war.Activists with a group called Move Over AIPAC protesting the American Israel Public... more
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Latest News Updates Citigroup Inc. is investing heavily in technology to support the expansion of its consumer-banking business in the Asia-Pacific region.Latest News Updates Citigroup Inc. is investing heavily in technology to support the... more
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Video of local activist dancing to and singing their own rendition of Lady Gaga in support of a Boycott Israel campaign: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6dO9eVOY2IVideo of local activist dancing to and singing their own rendition of Lady Gaga in... more
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Austin Activists Protest Material Support of Genocide in Palestine: Ahava cosmetics produced In illegal Israeli settlements.
More than 30 people carried picket signs in front of the Gateway Shopping Center in Austin on Saturday, April 24, urging shoppers to boycott ULTA Beauty for refusing to take Ahava Dead Sea cosmetics off their shelves.
The Austin protests, which began the previous week at the Sunset Valley ULTA store, are part of an international campaign to call attention to resources taken from illegal Israeli settlements. The UN has declared the Israeli settlements in Palestine to be a violation of international law and Ahava violates the fourth Geneva Convention by exploiting Palestine’s natural resources.
Bernice Hecker, a member of the Interfaith Community for Palestinian Rights, said:
"We’ve joined this international campaign to call attention to the illegal Israeli settlements and the theft of Palestinian resources. By telling shoppers to boycott ULTA, we are calling attention both to the occupation and to the fact that Ahava is marked as “made in Israel” when it is really made in occupied Palestine."
The boycott efforts have been organized by the Interfaith Community for Palestinian Rights, CodePink, and the UT Palestinian Solidarity Committee. Members of the groups have approached the managers of four ULTA stores and asked them to remove Ahava products but they refused.
On April 17 the groups held an in-store action at Sunset Valley ULTA followed by a picket on the sidewalk of the shopping center. On April 24 there was a brief in-store action at the Gateway Ulta with a picket line on the sidewalk. These actions were in response to ULTA's refusal to remove these illegal products from their stores.
More on the boycott campaign can be found at http://www.StolenBeauty.org
This is a http://ZGraphix.org production.Austin Activists Protest Material Support of Genocide in Palestine: Ahava cosmetics... more
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This week the Russell Tribunal on Palestine ruled in Barcelona, Spain on six questions concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Tribunal's judgements are not judicially binding but are meant to examine the complicity of the European Union in perpetuating what the Tribunal called Israel's "policy of war, occupation, and colonization for 60 years." The jurists were assembled from around the globe and issued their conclusions on Wednesday, March 3rd. Among the conclusions, the jury stipulated that Israel practices a form of apartheid.
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4882&updaterx=2010-03-08+02%3A15%3A42This week the Russell Tribunal on Palestine ruled in Barcelona, Spain on six questions... more
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Highlights from the opening day of the sixth annual Israeli Apartheid Week in Toronto, filmed on 1 March 2010. Speakers include Na'eem Jeena and Jon Elmer.Highlights from the opening day of the sixth annual Israeli Apartheid Week in Toronto,... more
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On Friday, February 19, 2010, American and Israeli human rights activists interrupted a performance by the Israel Ballet at the Flynn Theater in Burlington, Vermont, unfurling banners which read "Sponsored by Apartheid Israel" and "No tutu is big enough to cover War Crimes".
The Israel Ballet is currently touring the U.S. as part of an official state campaign, dubbed "Brand Israel" to use the Arts to revive its sagging image abroad in the wake of unanimous condemnation from the major human rights organizations and, most recently, the U.N. "Goldstone Report".On Friday, February 19, 2010, American and Israeli human rights activists interrupted... more
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