More than 130 Mexican civil rights organizations demand CEMEX end complicity with Israeli apartheid
Over 130 Mexican organisations have written a letter calling on CEMEX to reconsider its participation in the colonization, occupation and institutionalized discrimination against the Palestinian people.
We, the undersigned, urgently call on the Mexican company CEMEX to withdraw its production plants in the Israeli-occupied territories in Palestine and the Golan Heights. We recall that CEMEX cement and concrete are used in the construction of illegal settlements in the West Bank - Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967 - and in parts of the Wall built by the Israeli regime and declared illegal in 2004 by the International Court of Justice.
In the face of the imminent and illegal de jure annexation of much of the West Bank, ending CEMEX's complicity with de facto annexation measures-including colonization through settlements and the Wall-is more urgent than ever.
CEMEX's commercialization with Israel makes it complicit in the crimes committed against the Palestinian people, as it allows Israeli policies of occupation, apartheid and colonization to continue even against the resolutions of the United Nations, the verdict of the International Court of Justice, and Mexico's foreign policy.
The impact of campaigns driven by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement has caused major corporations such as Orange and Veolia to stop being complicit in Israel's violations, and giants such as G4S to start exiting the Israeli market.
We demand that CEMEX reconsider its participation in the colonization, occupation and institutionalized discrimination against the Palestinian people.
#STOPCEMEX
Signatory organizations:
New Central Workers' Union
Central Unitary Workers' Union
Fray Francisco de Vitoria O.P., A.C. Human Rights Center.
Other Worlds AC/Chiapas
People's Solidarity Committee
Palestinian Solidarity Coordinating Committee
Mexican Electricians Union (SME)
Mexican Movement Of Solidarity With Cuba
Socialist Left
Revolutionary Workers' Party (PRT)
Mexican Communist Movement (MCM)
Mexican Committee of the Necessary Song
Revolutionary League of Artists and Workers of Culture
Resumen Latinoamericano Newspaper
People's Front
Saharawi Resistance
Coordinator of Colonies of Ecatepec
Rafael Galvan Institute for Workers' Studies
Venezuela Solidarity Committee-Xalapa
Bios Iguana A.C. Colima
Integral Processes for Peoples' Self-Management
Mexican Network of People Affected by Mining (REMA)
New National Council of Nahuatl Culture
Colmena Anahuac A C
National Cooperativist Alliance, A.C. (ALCONA)
Alliance of Mexican Tramwaymen (ATM)
Ameyalli Alter Native Center
Human Rights Association of the State of Mexico (ADHEM)
Association of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees and Victims of Human Rights Violations in Mexico (AFADEM FEDEFAM)
Association of Retired and Pensioned Professors of Chapingo (APJPCH)
Asociación Promotora Nacional para el Desarrollo Rural y Urbano (APNDRU) (National Association for Rural and Urban Development)
Trade Union Association of INVI Workers (ASTINVI)
Center for International Research on Social Economy of the Universidad Iberoamericana
Center for Labor Research and Union Counseling (CILAS)
Bicentennial Coalition of Taxi Drivers
Life and Liberty Coalition to Julian Assange
Our Joyful Rebelliousness Collective of the Morelos Network of Support to the CNI/CIG
IngeniuMex Collective
Collective for Peace in Colombia from Mexico (COLPAZ)
Regina Martinez Collective
Utopia Puebla Collective
Mexican Committee in Defense of the Fundamental Rights of the Peruvian People
National Committee for the Defense and Conservation of Los Chimalapas
Carlos Montemayor National Prize Organizing Committee
University Committee in Solidarity with the Palestinian People (CUSPPA)
Confederation of Retirees, Pensioners and Senior Citizens of the Mexican Republic (CONJUPAM)
Federal National and International Executive Council of the Mexican Front for Human Rights, A.C. (FREMEXDEHU)
Chapingo Farmers' Cooperative (CACH)
Cooperativa Labizet Maak Raíz Artesanal
LF Cooperative of the Centre
Revolutionary Socialist Coordinating Committee
Corriente Democrática Trabajadores Democráticos de Occidente (TRADOC) (Western Democratic Workers' Democratic Current)
National Federation of Education Workers' Unions (FENASTE)
National Federation of Democratic Trade Unions (FNSD)
Permanent Women's Forum Iztacalco, A.C. (FPM-I)
Permanent Forum for the Truth Commission
National Front for the Development of Emiliano Zapata (FNADEZ)
Diego Lucero Foundation, A.C. (FDL)
Tacuba Group
Ik Balam Agwencia virtual news agency
Visual Insurrection
Youth for Socialism
Promotional Board of the New Workers' Central in Baja California
Communist Youth
The Our Joyful Rebellion Collective
La Sexta with Palestine
Woods of the People of the Southeast, AC
Mexicans United
National Movement of Hope
Independent Proletarian Movement (MPI)
Social Land Movement
Party of Communists
Popular Socialist Party of Mexico
Plantón por los 43
UACM's Cooperative Self-Management Program
Solidarity Promoter "Va por Cuba".
Tlalpan Rebellion
Resistance Network
University Network of Human Rights Monitors (RUMODH)
Blanca Movil Magazine
Section 9, Oaxaca, Unión Independent National Independent of Health Workers (SINTS), Oaxaca.
Section IX of the National Coordinating Committee of Education Workers (CNTE)
INBAL Sector / Unión National Democratic Union of Workers of the Secretary of Culture (SNDTSC)
Autonomous Union of Workers of the Municipality of San Luis Potosí (SATMSLP)
Union of Public Employees of the Intermunicipal System of Potable Water and Sewage Services of Guadalajara (SEPSIAPA)
Union of Academic Workers of the Autonomous University of Chapingo (STAUACH)
Union of Workers in the Service of the State and Municipal Powers, Decentralized State Institutions and Private Companies of Nayarit (SYSPEMIDEPN)
Sindicato de Trabajadores al Servicio del Estado y Municipios de Nayarit (SITEM) (Union of Workers at the Service of the State and Municipalities of Nayarit)
Union of Academic and Teaching Service Workers of the College of Technical Professional Education of the State of Nayarit).
Union of Workers of the Mexican Institute of Water Technology (SITIMTA)
Union of Passenger Transportation Workers of the Federal District (STTPDF)
State Education Workers Union of Baja California (SETEBC)
Independent Union of Workers at the Service of Education of the State of Nayarit (SITSEN)
Independent Union of Workers of the Autonomous Metropolitan University (SITUAM)
Independent Union of Workers in Health Sciences Research (SITIC Salud)
Independent Union of University Workers of Colima (SITU)
Independent Union of Workers of the Government of the State of San Luis Potosi (SITTGE)
International Union of Elevator Constructors of Mexico (SICE-M)
Sindicato Nacional de Docentes de Conalep (SINADOCO) (National Union of Conalep Teachers)
Revolutionary Democratic Union of the Chemical Industry and Similar and Related Industries of the Mexican Republic (SRDIQSCRM)
Sindicato Único de Trabajadores Académicos del Colegio de Educación Profesional Técnica del Estado de Tlaxcala (SUTACEPTET) (Tlaxcala State Academic Workers' Union)
Sole Union of Community Telebachillerato Workers of the State of Oaxaca
Guerrero State High School Workers' Union
Union of Workers of the Institute of Secondary and Higher Education
Unitary Union of Workers of the Autonomous University of Nayarit (Sindicato Unitario de Trabajadores de la Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit - SUNTUAN)
Unitary Union of Workers of the Autonomous University of Puebla (SUNTUAP)
Pascual Workers' Cooperative Society SCL
Tepito Arte Aca
Union of Mothers of Disappeared Children of Sinaloa 1970s
Unión Democrática Campesina
General Union of Workers and Peasants of Mexico "Bandera Roja" (UGOCM) Oaxaca
General Union of Popular Workers and Peasants (UGOPC), Chiapas
National Union of Petroleum Technicians and Professionals
University of the Earth in Puebla
Association of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees and Victims of Human Rights Violations in Mexico (AFADEM FEDEFAM)
University Network of Human Rights Monitors (RUMODH);
Human Rights Association of the State of Mexico (ADHEM)
Diego Lucero Foundation, A.C. (FDL)
Permanent Women's Forum Iztacalco, A.C. (FPM-I);
Federal National and International Executive Council of the Mexican Front for Human Rights, A.C. (FREMEXDEHU). (FREMEXDEHU)
University of the Earth in Puebla
COLPAZ, Collective for Peace in Colombia from Mexico
Utopia Puebla Collective
#24F Life and Liberty Coalition to Julian Assange
Visual Insurrection muralists
La Sexta with Palestine
University Committee for Solidarity with the Palestinian People CUSPPA
Micro Cnpa Mn
Revolutionary Socialist Coordinating Committee
Memoria Magazine Editorial Committee Journal of militant criticism
People's Human Rights Observatory
Committee for the Defense of Women's Rights - CODEM
Emiliano Zapata Popular Revolutionary Union - UPREZ
Center for Attention to the Human Rights of Indigenous Women and Minors (CADHMMI) and the Regional Indigenous Center for Human Rights "Ñuu-Savi" (CERIDH).
Casa de los Pueblos-Mexico
El Zenzontle Newspaper Collective
BDS Mexico