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en las noticias

Tutu boosts Murdoch-battered BDS campaign in Sydney

At a small ceremony on 7 June in Marrickville, a Sydney suburb, local mayor Fiona Byrne was presented with a letter of support from the South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

“I want to pay my respects to you and your fellow councillors in Marrickville for taking a stand to isolate the Israeli state,” Tutu wrote. “We in South Africa, who both suffered apartheid and defeated it, have the moral right and responsibility to name and shame institutionalized separation, exclusion and domination by one ethnic group over others.

July 5, 2011
By: 
Sarah Irving on The Electronic Intifada
en las noticias

Archbishop Tutu supports Marrickville Mayor and Councillors

 

June 9, 2011
By: 
Desmond Tutu
Análisis

Lessons from Marrickville for BDS Activists

On April 19th, the Marrickville Council in Sydney’s inner west, Australia, met to debate and eventually overturn its four months old motion supporting the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Campaign against apartheid Israel.

May 21, 2011
By: 
Phil Monsour
en las noticias

Marrickville Council votes in support of the three tenets of the BDS call

The Australians for Palestine team arrived in Sydney on Monday to give support to Marrickville BDS and the Marrickville councillors.  It was, we felt, an historic occasion for BDS in Australia.  On Tuesday evening, the  Marrickville Council Chambers was packed to the rafters with crowds of people outside wanting to hear the vote on BDS after months of savage attacks on the councillors who had supported its adoption last December.

April 22, 2011
By: 
Sonja Karkar
Declaración BNC

Marrickville puts BDS on the map in Australia

The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the broadest coalition of Palestinian political parties, trade unions, NGOs and networks, warmly salutes those Marrickville councillors who remained steadfast and principled in their support of the three fundamental Palestinian rights that constitute the core of the boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS).

Local governments
April 21, 2011
By: 
Palestinian BDS National Committee
Análisis

BDS means freedom, justice and self-determination

Daniel Meyerowitz-Katz’s ill-informed and manifestly misleading attack on the Palestinian-led, global movement of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel contained several misrepresentations and some outright fabrications.

April 20, 2011
By: 
Omar Barghouti
Declaración BNC

Marrickville council – continue to stand on the right side of history!

The following letter was sent to Marrickville councillors by the BNC on April 18.

The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the broadest coalition of Palestinian political parties, trade unions, NGOs and networks, warmly salutes Marrickville council for its principled adoption of BDS.

Local governments
April 18, 2011
By: 
Palestinian BDS National Committee
Declaración BNC

Prominent academics and political and cultural figures write to Marrickville Council in support of BDS policy

Dear Marrickvile councilors,

We the undersigned would firstly like to congratulate the Marrickville Council in Sydney’s Inner West, Australia for their courageous motion (dated December 14, 2010) in support of the Palestinian-led global movement of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it complies with international law. The BDS campaign is deeply inspired by the South African anti-apartheid boycott and divestment campaign for freedom and equality.

Local governments
April 18, 2011
By: 
BNC
Declaración BNC

Councillors and Mayors from UK, Spain and Sweden write to Marrickville Council in support of BDS policy

The following letters were sent to Marrickville Council, Sydney, Australia, in support of their BDS policy ahead of a vote on the policy on Tuesday.

As elected officials who have answered the Palestinian call for Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) and implemented such policies in  the Tudela de Duero, Cigales and Villanueva de Duero municipalities in Valladolid, Spain, we are writing to express our support and solidarity to the efforts currently being undertaken in Marrickville Council in Sydney, Australia.

The international community has failed to hold Israel accountable for

Local governments
April 17, 2011
By: 
BNC
Análisis

Fear and Loathing in Marrickville - BDS in Australia

It appears that once again the pro-Israel apologists have decided to single Israel out by making boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel a leading issue for the Marrickville electorate in the lead-up to the NSW state elections.  Not surprisingly, the Palestinians are rende

Local governments
March 25, 2011
By: 
Samah Sabawi and Sonja Karkar - Australians for Palestine