DON’T GAG LOCAL DEMOCRACY! Campaigners for a free Palestine demonstrated outside the meeting of Brighton & Hove City Council on Thursday 23rd October. They were objecting to a recent decision by Penny Thompson, the unelected Chief Executive of the City Council, to block a debate by councillors. The debate would have addressed the City Council’s ethical …
BARCLAYS BANK CLOSED FOR ONE HOUR Barclays Bank is a major investor in Elbit systems, Israel’s largest military company. Through its subsidiary UAV Engines, Elbit Systems also operates a factory in Staffordshire here in the UK. The company regularly exports military equipment to Israel. Elbit is also a part of the U-TACS partnership manufacturing the …
Solidarity campaigners plan demonstration at Elbit Systems BHPSC is one of many grassroots sponsors of the campaign During July and August 2014, 2,150 Palestinians were killed as Israel carried out another massacre of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza strip. Entire neighbourhoods were destroyed and mosques, market places, UN relief compounds and schools were deliberately targeted. …
Read more “Stop arming Israel – Demonstration at Elbit Systems in Shenstone – Friday October 17th”
Sunday 24th August 2014 Once again, supporters of a free Palestine took to the streets to show their sympathy and solidarity with the people of Gaza and all of Palestine. Several hundred of us gathered at Brighton Town Hall for a short rally. We heard two inspiring speeches. The first was from Dr Paul Oestreicher, …
Read more “Report and photos: Our rally for Gaza Sunday August 24th”
Following the closure of Sodastream’s so-called ‘eco-store’ in Brighton (see reports elsewhere on this site), the focus of the campaign has turned to the other stockists in Brighton & Hove. Our objective is to heed the call from Palestinian civil society to organise boycotts of companies complicit in human rights abuses in occupied Palestine, and …
Read more “Steamer Trading Cookshop the latest company to end its business with Sodastream”
Friday 22 August 2014 As supporters of Palestine begin the campaign to make Brighton & Hove a City for Palestine, the Argus today ran an article about the campaign. You can read the Argus article here. And you can sign the petition here.