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Home | Friday 30th January 2009 | Issue 664

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BIG IT UP

The boycott on Israeli goods and Carmel Agrexco (See SchNEWS 649) seems to be working. Whilst the boycott has been going for some time, the latest Israeli military outrage has swelled the numbers of consumers voting with their trolleys and their action is starting to bite.

According to this week’s guest publication, the ever-riveting International Supermarket News, Israeli farmers have been telling of unsold food going rotten in warehouses as supermarkets can’t shift the stuff. Israeli goods include potatoes, avocados, chillies, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, dates, melons, sharon fruit, oranges, pomegranates, sweetcorn, radishes and fresh herbs.

To help keep the pressure up, the BIG (Boycott Israeli Goods – geddit!) Campaign are holding a demo on Feb 7th at the Carmel Agrexco HQ at Swallowfield Way, Hayes, Middlesex.

They’ll be there to highlight the fact that a vast number of flowers - grown in Israel and the Occupied Territories but often packaged and labelled as though from Holland – are flogged in the name of Valentine’s Day each year. Lorries will be leaving the depot stuffed with blooms for ill-informed lovers around the country – if you can’t make the demo why not take the campaign to your local supermarket and let shoppers know what it means to say it with flowers...

* For demo details see www.bigcampaign.org

** Nationwide protests continue....! On 24th Jan till queues in a Leeds M & S store were brought to a standstill as activists held up, leafleted customers, and sparked debate about the issues surrounding profiteering from the occupation of the West Bank. The protesters were stopped and searched by the police but no arrests were made.

On 27th Jan, three protestors were arrested in a Tesco in Swansea for filling a shopping trolley with Israeli goods and covering it in goats blood. Ms Murphy, a grandmother-of-four, has been charged with theft and will have to appear in court. An undercurrents video report of the protest is now available on http://undercurrentsvideo.blogspot.com/2009/01/israeli-goods-seized-in-tescos-and.html



 

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