Author: barrys2

13th May 2015 Brighton & Hove Trades Union Council today voted unanimously to support the boycott of Hewlett-Packard (HP), in an expression of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for justice and self-determination. Representatives of local trade union branches will propose to their branches that they adopt a motion committing the branch to a range of …

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Brighton & Hove PSC regularly contributes to the national campaign to urge Sainsbury’s to put its ethical trading policy into practice, and stop doing business with companies complicit in the illegal occupation of Palestine. After two years of corporate intransigence on the company’s part, we wanted to send a clear message to Sainsbury’s that they …

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Brighton, 9 April 2015 The prosecution case against a local Palestinian activist collapsed this morning, when the presiding judge acknowledged that the evidence of the two witnesses for the prosecution had been completely contradicted by video footage. There was therefore no case to answer. The wrongly-accused defendant was exonerated, and excused from the court without …

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From Michael Deas, European Co-ordinator of the Palestinian Committee for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Students at the University of Sussex in the UK have voted overwhelmingly in support of their student union being part of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. In a cross-campus referendum that closed on Friday (27 March), 806 students voted in favor of BDS (68 percent of …

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Waitrose – the supermarket in the John Lewis empire – continues to get flak over its decision to accept sponsorship from the Israeli State Tourist Board and publish a ‘Taste of Israel’ insert in its current edition of ‘Waitrose Kitchen’ magazine. Brighton & Hove PSC were amongst the first group of activists to draw attention …

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