Excerpt from speech by Dr. Phillis Starkey, Minister of Parliament, made on 1/27/10 regarding labeling of Israeli settlement products. This section focuses on AHAVA Dead Sea Laboratories. Full transcript of the day’s debates in Parliament available here. The text below comes from a marginally edited version posted by the U.K. site Jews for Justice for [...]
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Heartbreaking news that Howard Zinn died today. He was in good spirits just days ago when I spoke to him about a dinner party we were planning. He was very proud of The People Speak and excited that it had played to the not left-leaning audience on the History Channel. When asked if he wanted [...]
Monday, January 25, 2010
by Alice Slater Since 1995, at the Conference to Extend the Non-Proliferation Treaty, civil society has been calling for the establishment of an International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Recognizing the “inextricable link” between nuclear weapons and nuclear power, and urging a phase out of nuclear power, the Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of [...]
Saturday, January 23, 2010
To our dear friends and supporters who have been so present through this difficult time. I feel like I have a wall of love and protection around me knowing that you are all holding Haiti in your thoughts and prayers. I apologize for not having written for the past few days, it is partly that [...]
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
January 19, 2010 This afternoon, feeling helpless, we decided to take a van down to Champs Mars (the area around the palace) to look for people needing medical care to bring to Matthew 25, the guesthouse where we are staying which has been transformed into a field hospital. Since we arrived in Port au Prince [...]
Monday, January 18, 2010
In mid-December Rula Borelli, prompted by a friend who brought her attention to the fact that AHAVA products were on sale at Costco, sent a letter to the company asking them to remove AHAVA from their shelves, explaining about AHAVA’s illegal practices and the Stolen Beauty boycott campaign against them. Borelli then started a Facebook [...]
Saturday, January 30, 2010
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