[Imc-uk-features] Re: Proposal uk : Blockade of Israeli Company byanti-wall protestors

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article going up now thanks Robin
here is the article and the html for future reference if you need to see how 
it looks and works
Andrew 

Justice for Palestine: The wall must fall!! 

November 9th to 16th saw the 2nd International Week against the Apartheid
<a href="http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/800.shtml">Wall</a> , with 
actions
throughout the  <a 
href="http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/795.shtml">world</a>,
including a number of events in the UK.<BR><BR> 

These included a blockade of the Hayes, Middlesex <a 

href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/11/301125.html">premises</a> of <a 

href="http://duns100.dundb.co.il/600000764/">Agrexco</a>, Israel's national 
exporter of fresh
produce. Activists erected a cage at the entrance to the factory, and a 
barrier at
the exit, stopping all collections and deliveries for 8 hours, at an
estimated cost of 30k - 40k to the company. <br><br>
Seven activists were arrested and
charged with Aggravated Trespass and Section 69 of the The Criminal Justice
and Public Order Act 1994. They plan to use the court case to challenge the
legality of trade with a company that deals in settlement goods, especially
in light of the  International Court of Justice Ruling which ruled that
countries have an obligation not to not to render aid or assistance in
maintaining the situation created by the construction of the wall.<br> 


Saturday 6th November saw a picket of Marks and Spencer in <a 

href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/11/300627.html">Nottingham</a> and 
on the following
Saturday, <a 
href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/11/301288.html">Brighton</a> 
Activists staged a 

die-in outside Marks and Spencer
, as part of an ongoing
<a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/11/300668.html">campaign</a>.
The Guardian reported that M+S continue to buy produce from illegal 
settlements,
which have taken to using cheap <a 
href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/11/301102.html">imported 

labour</a> from countries such as
Thailand and the Phillipines, since the beginning of the Intifada. 

<br><br>
Other Palestine related actions included an anti-wall demonstration in
<a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/11/301148.html">Oxford>/a>, and 
vigils in
(http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/11/300987.html">Cambridge</a> and 
London
for Yasser Arafat, who died on  Thursday 11th November. Also during the
week, <a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/11/300975.html">Mordechai 
Vanunu</a>, Israel's nuclear 

whistle blower  was arrested for talking to foreign journalists and Hannah 
James, a UK
activist was deported from Israel after being declared a threat to the 
security of the state!
<BR><BR>
Upcoming Palestine events include a <a 
href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/11/300656.html">film 

screening</a> in Neath on November 25th
,  and a meeting on the
<a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/11/301152.html">"Roadmap in 
tatters"</a> in Swansea on December 5th 

 

 

 

Politics is the art of
looking for trouble,
finding it,
misdiagnosing it and then
misapplying the
wrong remedies.
G. Marx