AUGUST 3RD: OCCUPY SELFRIDGES!
DAAWN | 17.07.2002 17:56
Saturday, August 3rd, 1pm:
In response to Selfridges' continued support for the expansion of illegal settlements in the Occupied Territories, by selling goods produced there, we are calling for an Occupation of Selfridges! Join the big demonstration outside the main Oxford Street entrance at 1pm or form an affinity group with some friends and enter the store. Bring music, entertainment and ideas for action and let's shut the store for the day!
In response to Selfridges' continued support for the expansion of illegal settlements in the Occupied Territories, by selling goods produced there, we are calling for an Occupation of Selfridges! Join the big demonstration outside the main Oxford Street entrance at 1pm or form an affinity group with some friends and enter the store. Bring music, entertainment and ideas for action and let's shut the store for the day!
AUGUST 3RD: OCCUPY SELFRIDGES!
Called by Direct Action Against War Now!
Supported by:
Campaign for Palestinian Rights, the WOMBLES, Youth & Student CND, JAZ (Jews Against Zionism), AYN (Anarchist Youth Network), Stroud Valleys' Anarchists.
Background information:
Selfridges have caved in to Israeli government pressure and placed back goods produced on illegal Israeli settlements for sale.
Selfridges removed these goods over Christmas when they appeared to recognise a wider civic responsibility. Now they have reneged on this decision and are once again accomplices to Israel's brutal occupation of Palestinian land that have resulted in the murder of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians since 1967.
Selfridges are supporting the illegal Occupation which the Israeli Government has tried to cement by attempting to colonise the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights. Prime Minister Sharon wishes to make conditions so awful for the Palestinians living there -by sheer terror and enforced poverty- that they will give up and leave: this is effectively ethnic cleansing. By selling goods from these settlements, Selfridges are giving economic and political support to Israeli military oppression.
These settlements have been built on land expropriated from the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. Not only are they illegal under international law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention, but their existence and continuing expansion, a symbol of the ongoing occupation, has been identified as a major obstacle to peace at this sensitive time.
The EU and international positions make it clear that settlements are not part of Israel, and therefore are not covered by any trade agreement. By stocking such products, Selfridges is in effect assisting settlement expansion through subsidising the settler economy. Whilst settlement trade flourishes, Israel continues to strangle the Palestinian economy by denying it free access to the outside world.
The products are:
:: Achva Halva from the Barkan Industrial Zone
:: West Bank Beigal and Beigal pretzels from the Barkan Industrial Zone
:: West Bank Yarden Wines from Katzrin, Golan Heights
and all can be found in the Food Hall.
This action is part of a sustained direct action campaign against Selfridges' support of settlement expansion. Reports of previous actions:
>>> 14.06.02
http://www30.brinkster.com/DAAWN/14062002.html
>>> 31.05.02 http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=33528&group=webcast
Supported by:
Campaign for Palestinian Rights, the WOMBLES, Youth & Student CND, JAZ (Jews Against Zionism), AYN (Anarchist Youth Network), Stroud Valleys' Anarchists.
Background information:
Selfridges have caved in to Israeli government pressure and placed back goods produced on illegal Israeli settlements for sale.
Selfridges removed these goods over Christmas when they appeared to recognise a wider civic responsibility. Now they have reneged on this decision and are once again accomplices to Israel's brutal occupation of Palestinian land that have resulted in the murder of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians since 1967.
Selfridges are supporting the illegal Occupation which the Israeli Government has tried to cement by attempting to colonise the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights. Prime Minister Sharon wishes to make conditions so awful for the Palestinians living there -by sheer terror and enforced poverty- that they will give up and leave: this is effectively ethnic cleansing. By selling goods from these settlements, Selfridges are giving economic and political support to Israeli military oppression.
These settlements have been built on land expropriated from the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. Not only are they illegal under international law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention, but their existence and continuing expansion, a symbol of the ongoing occupation, has been identified as a major obstacle to peace at this sensitive time.
The EU and international positions make it clear that settlements are not part of Israel, and therefore are not covered by any trade agreement. By stocking such products, Selfridges is in effect assisting settlement expansion through subsidising the settler economy. Whilst settlement trade flourishes, Israel continues to strangle the Palestinian economy by denying it free access to the outside world.
The products are:
:: Achva Halva from the Barkan Industrial Zone
:: West Bank Beigal and Beigal pretzels from the Barkan Industrial Zone
:: West Bank Yarden Wines from Katzrin, Golan Heights
and all can be found in the Food Hall.
This action is part of a sustained direct action campaign against Selfridges' support of settlement expansion. Reports of previous actions:
>>> 14.06.02
http://www30.brinkster.com/DAAWN/14062002.html >>> 31.05.02
http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=33528&group=webcast
DAAWN
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