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Palestinian Unions Endorse Dockworker Unions’ Call to Action on October 30th
The Palestinian labor movement endorses the call for a day of struggle on October 30th against militarisation and genocide organised by a collective of dockworkers’ unions and calls on all global port, transport and related unions to join it. We also call on grassroots and civil society organizations that can support this mobilization to do so following the unions’ leadership and context-specific directions.
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Palestinian Unions Endorse Dockworker Unions’ Call to Action on October 30th
The Palestinian labor movement endorses the call for a day of struggle on October 30th against militarisation and genocide organised by a collective of dockworkers’ unions and calls on all global port, transport and related unions to join it. We also call on grassroots and civil society organizations that can support this mobilization to do so following the unions’ leadership and context-specific directions.
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G4S responds to public anger but remains complicit in Israel’s abhorrent prison system
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Palestinians Salute the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) for its Endorsement of the Academic Boycott of Israel
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UC Berkeley student senate passes divestment bill
Update: The UC Berkeley student president has announced that he will not veto the motion. The student senate at the University of California at...
Organizations in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine call for G4S boycott
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Iain Banks: why I'm supporting a cultural boycott of Israel
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Paris court fines Air France for following Israeli order to interrogate passenger whether she was Jewish
On 15 April 2012, Horia Ankour, 30, a French nursing student, boarded Air France flight 4384 from Nice to Tel Aviv. She was traveling as part of a...