M&S PICKET!

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M&S Oxford Street, 173 Oxford Street
Thursday 30 May, 6-8pm

Is it enough to support Palestine in heart and mind?

Is it enough to read newspaper articles and websites?

Is it enough to show up at demonstrations once a month?

Get real.

Get active.

Join the M&S pickets!

"There is only one way to create a movement of profound social change, and it is very simple. Each person that is deeply committed gets someone else deeply committed. And so on.”

Why M&S? Because M&S...

* supports Israel with £233 million in trade every year

* sells goods produced in the illegally occupied territories

* sees "aiding the economic development of Israel" as "one of its fundamental objectives" (Lord Marcus Sieff, long-time Chairman of M&S)

* was known in Zionist circles in the 1920s - 1940s as "the Family" ("Zionism was the Leitmotif of their lives,” said Chaim Weizman, Israeli’s first President,)

* served as key diplomatic allies for Israel in the 1920s

* "was prominent, even essential, [to Zionism] from the 1960s through to the 1980s ... partly because of its strong historical links with Zionism; and partly for its success in getting Israeli goods to the British marketplace." (Barry Kosmin)

* received the Jubilee Award from Netanyahu in 1998, the highest tribute of the Israeli state

* was honoured last year by the Israeli Ambassador to Britain in a veremony in London

* "are as close to Israel as we have ever been" (M&S Spokesperson, Jewish Chronicle, 22 December 2000)

By targetting M&S, we can...

* give unity and power to the boycott movement
* hurt M&S financially
* send a message to other pro-Zionist companies

* build up a core of dedicated activists through street work
* Help us build the kind of movement that actually will make a difference.

Flags, banners, posters, placards, drums, whistles ... Bring them!


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Other Upcoming Events

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PICKET M&S!

M&S Wood Green
46 High Road, N22

Saturday 1 June, 12-2pm

Nearest Tube: Wood Green or Turnpike Lane

PUBLIC MEETING

The Intifada Group
20 Kingsway, London WC2

Wednesday 5 June, 8pm

Nearest Tube: Holborn


PICKET M&S!

M&S Oxford Street Picket

Thursday 6 June, 6-8pm

173 Oxford Street (near Regent Street)


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