Adrian Weir from Unite delivered this speech at the protest against Israel hosting the UEFA under 21 championship. Good afternoon, comrades and friends. I bring the solidarity greetings of General Secretary, Len McCluskey, the Executive Council of Unite and our 1.5 million members in Britain and Ireland. Friends, this is the second …
Kick Israeli Racism out of UEFA Friday 24 May 11am-4pm Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London Exciting news! Mahmoud Sarsak will be leading tomorrow’s protest in London against Israel hosting the UEFA under 21 championship! Mahmoud Sarsak and campaigners will present petitions to move the UEFA U21 finals from Israel, due to take place in …
Phone or email to complain about Morrison’s suspected mislabelling of Israeli settlement dates as ‘made in Israel’. 08454 04 05 06 Email form PSC is concerned that Morrison’s may have imported dates as ‘made in Israel’ when these were grown in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. What is uncontested by Morrison’s is that …
WEDNESDAY 22 MAY 2013 Baroness Warsi, in answer to Lord Alton’s enquiry about a UK-funded human rights training programme for Sudan, names the Palestinian Human Rights Commission as one of three participants in a joint project to provide training and supporting literature on international human rights law to the Sudanese National Human Rights Commission. Lords Written Answers TUESDAY 21 MAY 20131. Jeremy Corbyn speaking …
Dalton Philips Chief Executive Morrisons 1st March 2013 Dear Mr Philips We are concerned that dates labelled ‘Product of Israel’, destined to be sold as Morrisons own-label dates, were found in Tomer settlement. According to the Electronic Intifada article, Morrisons claimed that produce was simply being packed there. But there are no date-growing areas inside …
Veolia’s activities in the OPT and the detailed legal case for exclusion, including six “Fact Sheets”: http://jfjfp.com/?page_id=30763. Particularly useful if the initial statement of the legal case is queried. The Dump Veolia Campaign: www.dumpveolia.org.uk , including topical developments and campaigners’ toolkit http://www.dumpveolia.org.uk/activists-toolkit/. The latter includes a model letter and a model petition asking contracting authorities …
Since 2010, after vigorous local campaigns for the company’s exclusion, Veolia has lost or withdrawn from waste contracts worth over £10 billion worldwide. Important Campaign Successes in UK Sandwell Metropolitan, Edinburgh, Richmond, Portsmouth, Winchester & East Hants, South London Waste Partnership, Ealing, West London Waste Authority, East Sussex, North Wales incinerator project, South Wales incinerator …
As Veolia is a multinational with operations in many countries, this is an international campaign. Excluding Veolia from public contracts Under European Community regulations a company can be excluded from bidding for a public contract, or being awarded one, on the grounds of grave misconduct. The main thrust of the Derail Veolia campaign has been …
Annex: Veolia One Commercial Entity In 2005 Veolia Environnement’s four divisions adopted a single name, Veolia, and a new logo. As the Veolia website stated, this move ‘signalled the desire of the entire company to link Veolia divisions in a coherent way and increase its visibility’. (In 2013 Veolia changed the designation of its divisions …
The Veolia parent company is Veolia Environnment, a French multinational. Veolia Transportation, a subsidiary of Veolia Environnement, is a leading partner in the CityPass consortium that built the light-rail tramway linking west Jerusalem to illegal Jewish settlements in occupied east Jerusalem. The tramway cements Israel’s hold on occupied east Jerusalem and ties the settlements even …