Author: barrys2

The international development organisation Oxfam is currently facing a dilemma. Since 2005, the actor Scarlett Johansson has worked with them as a ‘global ambassador’, and has reportedly helped the organisation considerably with their work. It has emerged that Johansson has recently signed up to do a similar job for SodaStream – the deeply unethical Israeli …

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Back in the summer of 2012, SodaStream opened its first ‘EcoStream’ store in Brighton. SodaStream is an Israeli manufacturer of machines for making fizzy water at home. The store was marketed as ‘a filling station for the eco-aware’ – a place where green-minded Brightonians could get their bottles of cooking oil and washing up liquid …

Read more “SodaStream has gone very quiet about its plan to open a chain of ‘eco-stores’ in the UK. Who burst their bubble?”

Brighton & Hove PSC defeats zionist attempt to exploit appointment In late 2013, it was announced that Hofesh Shechter, the celebrated Israeli-born dancer and choreographer, had been appointed Guest Director for the 2014 Brighton Festival. Almost immediately, pro-Israel web and social media sites struck up a shrill form of gloating about the appointment, claiming that …

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  Local activists have handed to Sussex Police an open letter to the Chief Constable, drawing attention to the illegal and intimidatory behaviour of zionist counter-demonstrators at the regular protest outside the EcoStream shop in Western Road. You can read the letter here. The letter has also been sent to the Argus and other local …

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  On the 26th of October a group of activists staged a successful demonstration inside the New England Street Sainsbury’s supermarket in order to expose the company’s complicity with Israel’s violations of Palestinians’ human rights, and the hollowness of the company’s claim to be an ethical trader. The group filled baskets and trolleys with Israeli …

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