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Thursday 17 October 2013

Call for G4S to pull out of contracts in Israel & occupied Palestine

UNISON is backing the call for G4S to end commercial activity in Israel and Palestine. The British-Danish private security firm provides services and equipment to Israeli prisons, checkpoints, the Apartheid Wall and the Israeli police. The Palestine Solidarity Campaign is co-ordinating opposition to G4S including lobbying of the company's AGM and running leverage campaigns targeting G4S clients such as the BBC:
http://www.unison.org.uk/content/conNewsArticle/4357
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/uk-union-head-calls-g4s-end-israel-contracts