Report from Carmel-Agrexco Action
IMCer | 10.02.2007 14:37 | Anti-militarism | Palestine
Over 100 protesters gathered outside Israeli company Carmel-Agrexco's UK headquarters in Hayes, Middlesex, in a mass picket of the depot. Protesters are blocking both gates. At least 2 lorries have been turned away. There are Palestinian flags waving and someone has made a coffin covered with 'Carmel flowers'. Police have been stop-and-searching people without any legal basis. They also half-heartedly attempted to coral people into pens but haven't succeeded.
IMCer
Additions
Update: Carmel Agrexco is still blockaded
10.02.2007 15:16
As of 15:15, the blockade at the depot is still being maintained.
No arrests.
No arrests.
imcista
SECOND DAY OF ACTION AGAINST ISRAELI COMPANY IMPORTING VALENTINE'S DAY FLOWERS
11.02.2007 08:36
Sunday 11th February 2007
PRESS RELEASE
SECOND DAY OF ACTION AGAINST ISRAELI COMPANY IMPORTING VALENTINE'S DAY
FLOWERS
CARMEL-AGREXCO BLOCKADED
Photos/Interviews, Call 07845039980, email
thewallmustfall@riseup.net
Thirteen Palestine solidarity protesters from London and Brighton are
blockading the UK base of an Israeli agricultural export company Agrexco
(UK) Ltd, Swallowfield Way, Hayes, Middlesex.
This is the second day of action against Agrexco on one of their busiest
weekends of the year. Agrexco are dealing with large amounts of Israeli
flowers in the build up to Valentine's Day. On Saturday over a hundred
protesters stood in front of the gates of the depot and deliveries had to
be rescheduled.
Agrexco is Israel’s largest exporter of agricultural produce into the
European Union, and is 50% Israeli state owned. It imports produce from
illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
This morning activists locked themselves to both gates of the Hayes depot.
They were met with violence by privates security guards from First Class
Protection. The blockade is currently stopping all motor vehicle traffic
in and out of the building.
Before taking part in this action many of the defendants had witnessed
first hand the suffering of Palestinian communities under the brutal
Israeli occupation. They do not accept the UK's complicity in the illegal
occupation of Palestine and see the presence of this company as a
violation of human rights.
BACKGROUND
Carmel-Agrexco is 50% owned by the state of Israel, and imports produce
from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. At the same time
Israeli forces have blocked Palestinian exports on grounds of ‘security’.
Israeli state sponsored settlements have appropriated land and water
resources by military force from Palestinian farmers in a deliberate
policy of colonial settlement.
In a hearing in September the judge ruled that Agrexco (UK) must prove
that their business is lawful.
PRESS RELEASE
SECOND DAY OF ACTION AGAINST ISRAELI COMPANY IMPORTING VALENTINE'S DAY
FLOWERS
CARMEL-AGREXCO BLOCKADED
Photos/Interviews, Call 07845039980, email
thewallmustfall@riseup.net Thirteen Palestine solidarity protesters from London and Brighton are
blockading the UK base of an Israeli agricultural export company Agrexco
(UK) Ltd, Swallowfield Way, Hayes, Middlesex.
This is the second day of action against Agrexco on one of their busiest
weekends of the year. Agrexco are dealing with large amounts of Israeli
flowers in the build up to Valentine's Day. On Saturday over a hundred
protesters stood in front of the gates of the depot and deliveries had to
be rescheduled.
Agrexco is Israel’s largest exporter of agricultural produce into the
European Union, and is 50% Israeli state owned. It imports produce from
illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
This morning activists locked themselves to both gates of the Hayes depot.
They were met with violence by privates security guards from First Class
Protection. The blockade is currently stopping all motor vehicle traffic
in and out of the building.
Before taking part in this action many of the defendants had witnessed
first hand the suffering of Palestinian communities under the brutal
Israeli occupation. They do not accept the UK's complicity in the illegal
occupation of Palestine and see the presence of this company as a
violation of human rights.
BACKGROUND
Carmel-Agrexco is 50% owned by the state of Israel, and imports produce
from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. At the same time
Israeli forces have blocked Palestinian exports on grounds of ‘security’.
Israeli state sponsored settlements have appropriated land and water
resources by military force from Palestinian farmers in a deliberate
policy of colonial settlement.
In a hearing in September the judge ruled that Agrexco (UK) must prove
that their business is lawful.
thewallmustfall
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Down with the Israeli Apartheid supporters wherever they are!
10.02.2007 15:50
No doubt it won't be long before the Zionist supporters will clock on and start publishing their twisted arguments here?
Justice for Palestinians