Via Kris Connolly No more Council Tax money to support the occupation of Palestine If you pay council tax in Coventry, Solihull, Birmingham, Walsall, Sandwell, Dudley or Wolverhampton you are helping to fund the Arms Trade and repressive activities in Palestine. The West Midlands Pension Fund has invested £92,378,256 of our money in companies involved in the arms trade, including some who produce cluster bombs. A further £ 8,426,264 is invested in: Caterpillar £2,749,239 Hewlett Packard £2,307,945 G4S £2,025,230 Motorola £986,105 Veolia £ 357,745 G4S: * provides scanning machines and full body scanner equipment for Israeli checkpoints in occupied Palestine; * provides security services to illegal settlement businesses, including in Modi’in Illit, Ma’ale Adumin, Har Adar and the settlement neighbourhoods of East Jerusalem; * operates Israeli prison services in contravention of Articles 49 and 76 of the 4th Geneva Convention. See: Stone Cold Justice: Australian documentary on child prisoners https://youtube/watch?v=uz8_qzdDdM4 Veolia: * operates a tramway linking illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem with Israel. Settlements contravene article 49 of the 4th Geneva Convention. * supports illegal settlements in the occupied Jordan Valley by taking their refuse at its Tovlan landfill site. * operates a bus service connecting illegal settlements to Israel. Palestinian use of these services is either forbidden or severely restricted Hewlett Packard: * has some production work in illegal Israeli settlements * provides specialised equipment and services to Israeli Ministry of Defence; to Israeli Prison service; to illegal settlements; equipment is used at Israeli checkpoints and the wall in occupied Palestine. No more Council Tax money to support the occupation of Palestine If you pay council tax in Coventry, Solihull, Birmingham, Walsall, Sandwell, Dudley or Wolverhampton you are helping to fund the Arms Trade and repressive activities in Palestine. The West Midlands Pension Fund has invested £92,378,256 of our money in companies involved in the arms trade, including some who produce cluster bombs. A further £ 8,426,264 is invested in: Caterpillar £2,749,239 Hewlett Packard £2,307,945 G4S £2,025,230 Motorola £986,105 Veolia £ 357,745 G4S: * provides scanning machines and full body scanner equipment for Israeli checkpoints in occupied Palestine; * provides security services to illegal settlement businesses, including in Modi’in Illit, Ma’ale Adumin, Har Adar and the settlement neighbourhoods of East Jerusalem; * operates Israeli prison services in contravention of Articles 49 and 76 of the 4th Geneva Convention. See: Stone Cold Justice: Australian documentary on child prisoners https://youtube/watch?v=uz8_qzdDdM4 Veolia: * operates a tramway linking illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem with Israel. Settlements contravene article 49 of the 4th Geneva Convention. * supports illegal settlements in the occupied Jordan Valley by taking their refuse at its Tovlan landfill site. * operates a bus service connecting illegal settlements to Israel. Palestinian use of these services is either forbidden or severely restricted Hewlett Packard: * has some production work in illegal Israeli settlements * provides specialised equipment and services to Israeli Ministry of Defence; to Israeli Prison service; to illegal settlements; equipment is used at Israeli checkpoints and the wall in occupied Palestine. Caterpillar: supplies bulldozers directly to the Israeli army for military use. These are used: * by Israeli forces to destroy Palestinian farms, greenhouses, olive groves, fields of crops and numerous homes; * in the construction of the Israeli Separation Wall, despite the International Court of Justice declaring the Wall illegal under international law. Motorola: * provide the Israeli military with encrypted mobile phone technology. Israeli boarder guards at checkpoints inside Palestinian territory and Israeli soldiers take their orders through a Motorola device. * their virtual fences and surveillance systems are used at dozens of illegal Israeli settlements built on Palestinian land. All these firms violate international law and profit from the occupation of Palestine. See: whoprofits.org quaker.org.uk/files/Trade-with-Israeli-settlements-Updated-April-2013.pdf Please help to put a stop to the investments by: *writing to: your Ward Councillor, Leader of the Council and your MP; Councillors on the Investment Advisory sub-committee: Bert Turner (chair), Mike Heap, Peter Bilson (Wolverhampton); Muhammad Afzal (Birmingham); Damian Gannon (Coventry); Rachel Harris (Dudley); Vic Silvester (Sandwell); Alan Martin (Solihull); Zahid Ali (Walsall). Explain what these firms do to violate international law in Palestine and say why you object to your money being invested in them. Ask for the West Midlands Pension Fund to divest from these firms and for alternative, ethical investments to be made. *Raising a petition on your council website or write one yourself and present to the leader of the Council *Telling others and protest at/outside Council meetings More information: Paul McGowan bpmcgowan@hotmail 02476 674 495 or Ann Farr [email protected]
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:31:06 +0000
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