A branch of Starbucks in East London has been smashed and firebombed in what appears to be an anti-Israeli protest. Police are investigating the series of attacks in Whitechapel. First rocks were thrown through the store's window at 11.25pm on Monday night. Later, after midnight, a petrol bomb or similar was tossed into the zionist owned premises starting a fire which damaged the interior. No one was injured in the incident and the store was boarded up today as police examined the scene.
SMASH THE WAR MACHINE
There are companies all around us that are supporting & profiting from Israel’s murderous actions in Palestine. Arms killing innocent Palestinians today are made here, British companies continue to sell stolen goods from occupied Palestinian lands and profit from building the apartheid wall and prisons.
Companies that build Israel’s weapons
BAE Systems - arming Israel with F16s to attack Gaza
London - Stirling Square, Carlton Gardens, London, SW1Y 5AD
Raytheon - building missiles
Raytheon Systems Limited, The Pinnacles, Harlow, Essex, CM19 5BB
&
Harman House, 1 George Street, Uxbridge, Middx, UB8 1QQ
EDO - building the bombs that Israeli F16s are dropping on Gaza
Emblem House, Home Farm Business Centre, Home Farm Road, Brighton, BN1 9HU
Caterpillar: Bulldozing Palestinian homes onto families & murdered Rachel Corrie
Head Office, Mansour House, 188, Bath Road, Slough, Berkshire UK, SL1 3GA
Israel Military Industries, Eurotaas (EUTA) Ltd, 12 York Gate, London NW1 4QS
Companies protecting the occupation:
Carmel Agrexco: selling stolen goods from occupied land.
Uxbridge, Middlesex
Tel. 44-208-848-7788 Fax. 44-208-848-1106
Ahava - Dead Sea Cosmetics - protecting your skin off the back of Palestinian suffering
39 Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, London, WC21T 9DD
Veolia: building a tramline in occupied territory in East Jerusalem
Need to add in contact details
Starbucks: The head of Starbucks, Howard Shultz is an active Zionist and has been recognized by the government of Israel as key for promoting the alliance between the United States and Israel. It has been reported that a percentage of Starbucks profits go directly to the Israeli government.
Boycott, shut-down, graffiti, disrupt - whatever - Gaza needs our solidarity
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There are companies all around us that are supporting & profiting from Israel’s murderous actions in Palestine. Arms killing innocent Palestinians today are made here, British companies continue to sell stolen goods from occupied Palestinian lands and profit from building the apartheid wall and prisons.
Companies that build Israel’s weapons
BAE Systems - arming Israel with F16s to attack Gaza
London - Stirling Square, Carlton Gardens, London, SW1Y 5AD
Raytheon - building missiles
Raytheon Systems Limited, The Pinnacles, Harlow, Essex, CM19 5BB
&
Harman House, 1 George Street, Uxbridge, Middx, UB8 1QQ
EDO - building the bombs that Israeli F16s are dropping on Gaza
Emblem House, Home Farm Business Centre, Home Farm Road, Brighton, BN1 9HU
Caterpillar: Bulldozing Palestinian homes onto families & murdered Rachel Corrie
Head Office, Mansour House, 188, Bath Road, Slough, Berkshire UK, SL1 3GA
Israel Military Industries, Eurotaas (EUTA) Ltd, 12 York Gate, London NW1 4QS
Companies protecting the occupation:
Carmel Agrexco: selling stolen goods from occupied land.
Uxbridge, Middlesex
Tel. 44-208-848-7788 Fax. 44-208-848-1106
Ahava - Dead Sea Cosmetics - protecting your skin off the back of Palestinian suffering
39 Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, London, WC21T 9DD
Veolia: building a tramline in occupied territory in East Jerusalem
Need to add in contact details
Starbucks: The head of Starbucks, Howard Shultz is an active Zionist and has been recognized by the government of Israel as key for promoting the alliance between the United States and Israel. It has been reported that a percentage of Starbucks profits go directly to the Israeli government.
Boycott, shut-down, graffiti, disrupt - whatever - Gaza needs our solidarity
TAKE ACTION NOW…
Please add other appropriate targets
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i'm really surprised this has been promoted
13.01.2009 17:25
be very careful
Boycott Boycott
13.01.2009 18:35
One effective method is to go to your Tesco, Asda etc etc and get the largest trolley available. Fill it with Israeli products preferably small items the better. Fill the trolley to the top. Place a simple piece of paper which says "I was gonna buy these goods until I realised they are from stolen Palestinian lands and using slave Palestianian labour. Stop the Gaza massacre!" or words to that effect. Then leave it an aisle and walk out of the shop.
There no confrontations with any one required.
Come on we should have groups of 10 people per supermarket. Pretty soon the managers will stop refilling the shelves with zionist goods!
DO something BIG! Boycott Israeli Goods(BIG)!
Really not much to ask for the massacre these zionist bests are doing in GAZA.
Free Gaza Free Palestine
The Law of Return MUST apply to Palestinians. They must be able to return to their land and if not possible then alternative LAND PLUS COMPENSATION! NO NEGOTIATION ON THIS.
Protestor
re: i'm really surprised this has been promoted
13.01.2009 21:11
It's news, it has happened, so a supporter of Indymedia reports it. I don't see any editorialising by the people who run Indymedia.
@non
THIS is anti-militarism?
13.01.2009 22:10
Not in my name.
Outsider
Bigger bangs for the 'Bucks
14.01.2009 06:51
Would you feel better if the perpetrators issued an apology in the style of the Israelis?
"We strongly condemn the Zionists for hiding in civilian areas and using innocent cups of arabic coffee as human shields. In this instance one of our patrols came under fire from the vicinity of Starbucks and returned fire in self-defence. A stray molotov cocktail may have went awry due to a faulty guidance system but these things happen in war and this was a purely defensive measure. We have evidence that this was not an innocent civilian target but a fundraising front organistation for the Zionist terrorists"
SkinnyLatte
KKKoffee
14.01.2009 09:52
that's not (in) my name
Nice One
14.01.2009 12:35
At Skinny Latte
Sheer stupidity
14.01.2009 13:27
Apart from the fact there is no way you can know that you are not endangering anyone, even a structural failure or explosion/conflagration could kill a fireman or just passers by, but simply making a fire crew unavailable to others could kill someone!
In this case, it appears that the shop was indeed occupied:
You'll note that the racist graffiti and violent attacks (if they are connected) do not help.
This is the kind of moronic action that ranks up there with releasing mink into the British countryside for playing right into the hands of the right-wing media.
Smash the place to pulp for all I care, but just don't abuse the emergency services or endanger innocent people, pretty please!
Pyro
re: Sheer stupidity
14.01.2009 22:57
It has its risks, sure, but you also might run some over and kill them just driving to a demonstration. If you take reasonable precautions, it should be as safe as many other normal activities. Animal rights and environmental activists have used arson as a tactic for years without causing harm to anyone.
I can't comment on this particular incident, as I don't know the full details.
And regarding the mink releases: they were the final straw that wiped out the fur farms in this country by pushing the government to ban fur farming. Don't believe the establishment hype about them attacking babies and wiping out wildlife, they will spread out and form their own territories, and find their niche in the ecosystem.
@non
not anti-semitic
14.01.2009 23:50
Starbucks zionist connections are well documented as are its support for the so called "war on terror". It deserves to be the target of boycotts.
Boycott Starbucks
Starbucks at Guantanamo
When Israel describes itself as the Jewish State whose citizenship is the birth right of every jew born anywhere in the world; when leader (Olmert) in a speech outside of Israel declares the attack on Lebanon was "a war fought by ALL the Jews" and received a standing ovation by his non-israeli Jewish audience; when the Board of Deputies of British Jews who claim to be "the voice of British Jewry" hold a rally in support of Israel whilst Israel is massacring children in Gaza, then its hardly surprising that some people believe them and draw the (incorrect) connection between all Jews and what is happening in Gaza. This is not an indication of anti-semitism but rather of being duped by zionist lies. Yes we have to work at dispelling these lies, the best way I've seen is the Jewish participation in these demos against Israel and in the boycott campaigns. In particular the Neturei Karta must be congratulated for their work in the Muslim community:
Rabbi burns Israeli passport at London demo:
clarify
@non
15.01.2009 09:38
The only reasonable precautions to take in setting a building on fire that would reasonably diminish harming innocent people would be:
1. Securing for a necessary period of time a perimeter around the target that would be a safe distance for bystanders and to prevent anyone entering that area. You would already have detailed analysis of what was contained in the building and its neighbours to use for this.
2. Sweeping through the area within to ensure that there was no one still in there.
3. Providing fire (and medic) crews that would step into the shoes of the ones you have tied up.
Anything short of that level of care is kidding yourself on that give a damn about innocent lives.
Oh and you can add to that list 'a good stack of books to read whilst doing your time for manslaughter should anyone die as a result of your actions'.
But once you get to that level of precaution is stops being arson and becomes a rudimentary controlled demolition. As with arson, setting the fire and running away is usually how it is done.
And thanks too for flagging up to us all that you understanding of ecology is of an equally lacking standard of consideration.
Pyro
burning their empty cafes isnt a good idea when 99.9% of public dont know Starbu
15.01.2009 10:19
UK needs to disallow UK jews from going to murder in Israel IDF legally+ a full embargo& a international force as multinational as possible in mediterrean sea off Israel would gaurantee a stop.
If you bank at Lloyds close your account as they are freezing palestinian funds, Veolia run afew bus companies in UK jointly with city councils. We have to educate people& make em laugh as well as stand up & fight for human rights law.
Is there somekind of fuel additive essential to Israeli war effort like tetrahydle lead was to nazi german war effort, supplied by Rockefellers standard, now esso & mobil oil. The luftwaffe couldnt fly without it apparently.
The arms 3,000 tonne arms shipment seems key, coming from the USA, Greek activists are working on the shipping, London is where the ship broking happened, but Greece seems key as it has a large US arms depot there too. Theres a chance a early day motion on stopping arms to Israel could effect this & it would effect Israel generally, but as its a USA arms shipment & timewise my hopes on that are on Greece.
As far as burning empty banks etc, be nice if it was that simple, personally I'd much rather see banks democratically taken & turned in community centres dealing in parecons, if some banks go unlawfully resist real democracy & laws on this concerned citizens would be able to act proportionately& each community could use there local bank for whatever they want.
Kelly
Trainspotting -> FightClub
15.01.2009 11:21
Nah, I tried that and kept getting promoted. You get promoted for socialiing as much as being good at your job. Plus it is really frustrating to do bad work daily even in a good cause when noone knows except you.
Still, the best way for an anti-Starbucks employee, or anti-MacDonalds for that matter, to close their employer is to stick their finger up their arse and then rub into into the produce. Instant E-Coli.
Chuck Palniuk
Interesting
15.01.2009 11:57
There was not much joy in writing about 3 weeks of copious vomiting, diarrhoea and cramps. Let alone expecting anyone to read it.
But the serious point this topic all implies: the one thing corporates fear the most is REPUTATIONAL DAMAGE. It's why the spend so much on PR/Image/lies.
So 99% of consumers may not that Starbucks is an evil corporate entity: so educate them!
If attacking their furniture iss a hiding to nothing (other than self-righteous relief) then kick them where it REALLY hurts... What do you think McLibel was all about?
And as has been suggested here, you can 'engineer a new truth' that the public will respond to from within. There are fewer institutions as wide open to infiltration (with such a high staff turnover) than chain restaurants.
Don't recommend e.coli though. It is potentially fatal in infants & the infirm.
But spreading the rumour isn't fatal...
Pyro
starbucks - the facts
15.01.2009 16:37
starbucks has no (current) israeli commercial interests
there are plenty of companies who do - tesco, just because of its size, probably sells the most israeli produce (remember - camel agrexco is 50% owned by the Israeli state)
the body shop is owned by L'oreal who have extensive israeli interests - and they still trade on their (false) ethical reputation.
protestor
The OTHER Facts
15.01.2009 17:19
Even Snopes sees fit to link to this rather than reject it out of hand.
Pyro
What if it was you working late one night?
15.01.2009 18:38
heather
re: Pyro - maybe you misunderstood my point.
15.01.2009 20:48
I think you may have misunderstood my point.
If you see a wrong being committed, there are many actions you can take to attempt to right it. Arson is one option, having a peaceful demonstration is another. Sometimes either one of them will be more effective than the other.
The point is that both of them have risks. Driving round the country in minibuses attending peaceful demonstrations has its risks as does burning things down. No action you take is without risk. You just have to balance up whether the small risk of a negative outcome outweighs the good that will come of the action.
Animal rights and environmental activists have set thousands of fires over the years and as far as I know, no person has ever been directly harmed by them, so they must be pretty low-risk.
Firefighters are instructed to never risk themselves unless it is to save lives, and activists are always careful not to put lives at risk.
Firebombing occupied buildings is a totally different thing, but I'm not talking about this. You are suggesting a blanket opposition to arson, I am saying don't dismiss it totally, it can be a very effective and relatively safe tool.
@non
@non
15.01.2009 22:36
Besides, fire is a pretty rotten way to achieve anything:
1. Is is one big dose of poisons into the environment.
2. It is wasteful of natural resources.
3. You'll get hammered in court if you get caught.
4. It is very unpredictable/difficult to control and prone to spread (and can spread very quickly in the right/wrong circumstances.
5. It is potentially lethal.
Even sledgehammers or flooding make more sense.
Pyro
re: Pyro
16.01.2009 00:16
> 1. Is is one big dose of poisons into the environment.
Can be true, but what if the target releases much more poisons every day or does something else that is very bad and the arson shuts it down? There's a saying: you can't clean up shit without getting your hands dirty. You just have to weigh up whether the benefit outweighs the downsides. I could easily think of situations where this would be the case.
Imagine thousands of people travelling to a peaceful demonstration. What about all the pollution and poisons put into the air by that? A single person committing an act of arson could have a much lower environmental impact.
> 2. It is wasteful of natural resources.
Not sure exactly what you mean, but the same arguments as in part 1 apply.
> 3. You'll get hammered in court if you get caught.
Very true, and this is a good argument for thinking very carefully before doing it. But many people have done it and got away with it. Those who haven't were either unlucky, careless, very prolific, or subject to heavy police surveillance.
> 4. It is very unpredictable/difficult to control and prone to spread (and can spread very quickly in the right/wrong circumstances.
Can be true, but equally it could be an isolated building or vehicle where the risk of fire spreading is minimal. I haven't heard of this being a problem in practice. Most if not all activist arsons have destroyed their target and nothing else.
> 5. It is potentially lethal.
So are many things. My previous comments about risk assessment apply.
@non
Risk and anger management
16.01.2009 01:13
Given the atrocities of the past weeks I for one am prepared to die opposing that, and worse, I am prepared to risk the lives of those who support this kiddy-cide.
If you work at Starbucks, Tesco or worse, then resign and remove yourself from the line of fire because a new war has been initiated and you are a legitimate target.
Cheries Bum
My last words before we get stuck ina loop
16.01.2009 11:01
Loss of control is still the major risk with using fire, and the problem of endangering innocent people through denying them access to emergency services is insurmountable without having resources beyond the scope of most activists.
Cheries Bum: Well to be fair you can't hold people directly accountable until they have been educated in how they are accountable. Most people working for these companies are totally ignorant of what they are contributing to. Not complacent or apathetic but they really just do not know. And I am sure some of them, just like has happened at places like EDO, would jump ship as soon as they found out.
Educate people!
Pyro