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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.
Historic Victory at Oakland Port – Israeli Ship Blocked from Unloading (with video)
21 June 2010 [Transport Workers Solidarity Committee] - In a historic action and unprecedented action today, over 800 labor and community activists...
PGFTU message to San Francisco Bay Area trade unionists
To our respected sisters, brothers and comrades in the trade unions, labor councils and workers’ organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area...
EU Considering Aid to Israeli Military
EU Considering Aid to Israeli Military By David Cronin BRUSSELS, Jun 18, 2010 (IPS) - A leading Israeli supplier of warplanes used to kill and maim...
PSCABI Open Letter to DJ Tiesto: Don't perform in Israel
Dear Tiesto, Nietzsche once said that life without music would be a mistake. The greater mistake against humanity would be to deny one the ability...
Co-Author of Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Flotillaa Assault and BDS
Stéphane Hessel [Huffington Post] 15 June 2010 - Israel's illegal and immoral attack on the Freedom Flotilla humanitarian aid convoy, which left at...
United Methodists Vote to Divest from Companies that Benefit from the Occupation of Palestine
ST. CHARLES, ILL. June 15, 2010 – At its annual conference, the Northern Illinois Conference (NIC) of the United Methodist Church (UMC) voted to...
Israel’s accession to the OECD: another failure of human rights in the international community
By Seyfeddin Kara [Middle East Monitor] 15 June 2010 - The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), one of the most prestigious...
Folk musician Devendra Banhart cancels Tel Aviv shows
[Jerusalem Post] 15 June 2010 - Folk artist Devendra Banhart on Monday night cancelled two shows he had been set to play in Tel Aviv on June 16 and...
Oslo borough votes to boycott Israel
[Palestine Note] 14 June 2010 - The old Grorud borough district of Oslo, Norway's capital, voted last week to boycott Israel, Norwegian news service...
Israel's Freedom Flotilla Massacre underlines the urgency of intensifying BDS
Occupied Palestine, 08 June 2010 -- In light of Israel’s massacre of humanitarian relief workers and activists aboard the Freedom Flotilla on...