Press Release: BBC bombarded over #G4S Over 2000 BBC viewers & listeners contact the BBC http://t.co/ub1TPEvFJZ pic.twitter.com/1p9ZMAzog1 — PSC (@PSCupdates) January 27, 2014 Viewers and listeners bombard BBC Director General over broadcasters links to #G4S http://t.co/9BHjMFaIbo via @middleeastmnt — PSC (@PSCupdates) January 27, 2014
press release Date of issue: 30/01/2014 For immediate release Scarlett Johansson has stepped down as an Ambassador for Oxfam because of her relationship with SodaStream, a company which operates in the illegal settlement Ma’ale Adumim, in the Occupied West Bank. Scarlett Johansson and Oxfam faced immense pressure from the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign …
This is a message that was sent to us by a long-standing supporter of Oxfam, now nearly 80 years old: ‘Last night I spent a bit of time on the phone to Oxfam detailing the chronology of Scarlett’s several contracts (SodaStream, L’Oreal, Dolce Gabbana, et al), all of which followed her 2003 appointment as a …
Actor, Scarlett Johansson, is currently an Ambassador for Oxfam but has just signed up to promote Sodastream. Sodastream’s main factory is in a settlement – Ma’ale Adumim – in the Occupied West Bank. These settlements are illegal under international law, and an obstacle to peace – therefore settlement production relies on, and supports, an activity that …
Everything in PSC’s annual review wouldn’t have been possible without all our PSC members: as activists engaging people in our local communities, unions, political parties and faith groups as leaders shaping our priorities here, through our branch forums and in decision-making locally as educators, explaining to people just what life is like in Palestine and as funders, …
Channel 4’s new series The Jump began airing Sunday 26th January 2014. The series is sponsored by SodaStream, which has a factory located in the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim (the factory is in the settlement’s industrial sector, Mishor Adumim). This is the web homepage for The Jump, with ‘Sponsored by SodaStream’ prominent on …
Thank you to all the PSC members who came to PSC’s AGM. This is an important day for Palestine Solidarity, where members decide the priorities and focus for the following year’s campaigning. If you would like to get involved in PSC’s decision making, please join PSC The AGM agreed that exposing the Israeli state’s denial …
Viewers and listeners bombard BBC Director General over broadcasters links to G4S Over 2000 BBC viewers and listeners have contacted the BBC to urge it not to award G4S with a security contract worth £80 million. G4S services Israeli prisons to which Palestinian prisoners are illegally transferred in serious violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention …
Israeli settlements are built on stolen Palestinian land and are illegal under international law. Sainsbury’s uses suppliers that trade in products from illegal Israeli settlements. In April 2013, The Co-operative stated that in line with its ethical policy it would ‘no longer engage with any supplier of produce known to be sourcing from the Israeli settlements’. Please take action to pressure Sainsbury’s to …
Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s written evidence for the International Development Committee’s inquiry has been published. The International Development Committee is a group of MPs officially tasked with examining the policies, practices and spending of the Department for International Development (DfID). Their inquiry is examining the UK’s Development Work in the Middle East. PSC submitted evidence on DfID’s …