Here's a cut & paste from my mailbox, with only mild editing for flow.
Chevron: Stop Fueling Genocide in Palestine
We are watching Israel set fire to hospitals, homes, shelters, and nurseries in Gaza, killing tens of thousands of Palestinians and burying countless more under the rubble. The survivors are being left to die slowly, as Israel continues to cut off access to food, clean water, gas, and medical care to over 2 million people.
Chevron is profiting from this violence. It supplies Israel's war machine with light and power through its operation and co-ownership of Leviathan and Tamar -- two major gas fields off the coast of occupied Palestinian land.
Now we are joining Palestinian civil society to call on Chevron to end its support for Israels ongoing genocide and systematic violation of Palestinian human rights. We've successfully targeted Chevron before, let's do it again.
Chevron also operates and partially owns the EMG pipeline, which connects Israel and Egypt, passing west of the Gaza shoreline. This pipeline is not under Israeli jurisdiction, and any economic gain in this area without Palestinian agreement is illegal under international law.
After the International Court of Justice issued its ruling that the Israeli occupation is illegal and that genocide in Gaza is plausible, top legal experts around the world have been warning that companies that are aiding and abetting Israel's crimes could be held complicit.
We've successfully targeted Chevron before. When the Myanmar military staged a coup in 2021 our community went after Chevron and helped push the company to leave Myanmar. It took several months of relentless pressure from Ek and partners. We can do it again.
"Only an alert & knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial & military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods & goals, so that security & liberty may prosper together". Dwight D.Eisenhower.
Here's a cut & paste from my mail-box, that exposes the energy-supply-chain that supplied Israel before some action was taken...
The genocide and colonial expansion of the Israeli state are not powered on their own.
Israels military operations and colonial infrastructure heavily rely on imported crude oil and refined fuels, including jet fuel, gasoline, and diesel. In the past year alone, deliveries from the U.S., Russia, Azerbaijan, Greece, Italy, Brazil and more countries have supported these operations.
Israels electricity gridpowered by natural gas (70%), coal (17.5%), and renewable energy (10%)supplies the settlements and settlers' infrastructure, particularly in the occupied West Bank and Syrian Golan.
A New Report by our partner SOMO released today is exposing those supply chains and the link to the Israeli energy sectors use.
Our campaigning efforts have already led to Colombia suspending its coal exports to Israel and our coalition efforts have also put the government of Turkey on notice for continuing to export oil despite its announced embargo. Our partners have forced Maersk to admit they are transporting weapons, and Spain has refused docking to boats of death. Our historic mobilization at COP29 has made us grow our movement to stop fueling the genocide.
Our movement is growing and further exposing these ties; evidence is essential to hold government and companies complicit accountable.
The arms and fuel that power Israels genocidal assault on the Palestinians, as well as its bombing and colonial expansion in Syria and Lebanon, are being challenged by workers, activists and political leaders.
All States must impose an energy embargo including by holding their Energy corporations accountable and we want you to continue fighting with us to make that happen.
Onwards,
Inès & Rula
Check the Report
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"Only an alert & knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial & military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods & goals, so that security & liberty may prosper together". Dwight D.Eisenhower.
1.Syria just fell and Bashar is now living in Russia with Steven Segal and Edward Snowden...
2.BTW, whatever happend to Julian Assange?
R1. Syria didn't fall, it was taken-over as planned by your Military Industrial Complex, as outlined in the 1991 US-of-I(UK) Corporation defence strategy...But that's all coming to a close yo !
R2. He's coming home, as he's done nothing wrong...Just a victim of US-of-I(UK) hype for revealing the truth about your corrupt politicians, & proving that the US-o-I(UK) is a warmongering nation, full of ________( fill in the blank yourself yo ).
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"Only an alert & knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial & military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods & goals, so that security & liberty may prosper together". Dwight D.Eisenhower.
"Only an alert & knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial & military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods & goals, so that security & liberty may prosper together". Dwight D.Eisenhower.
Good short read & update right here. Cut & paste from my mailbox with mild editing for flow.
French bank BNP Paribas is #1 financier of the illegal Israeli settlements bankrolling an Occupation regime of land thefts, home demolition, detention, torture, rape, cold-blooded murders
Palestinians are caught in the crossfire: while theyre being massacred in Gaza, the Israeli army and settlers in the illegally occupied West Bank have intensified their deadly attacks on Palestinians and land thefts.
While we are all pulling together to get a ceasefire for Gaza and stop the weapons shipments, we mustn't fail the Palestinians of the West Bank, living under a brutal Occupation regime robbing them of their lives and homes.
This illegal occupation doesnt exist alone it is kept alive by big banks like BNP Paribas.
The French giant BNP Paribas is N°1 creditor of these horrific abuses and land thefts. Between loans, investments, and other financial support, BNP is pouring over 32 million USD in Israels illegal settlement industry.
As insurer AXA used to do when we targeted them for their investments in the illegal settlements, BNP is lying. Refuting the very nature of their own financial data. Our recent win on moving AXA away from the settlements enterprise is showing us one thing: together, we can make the most powerful financial actor to backtrack.
With its public face, BNP is bragging about its human rights commitments and ethical investments, but the ugly truth is this: BNP is the Top 1 European creditor of both the illegal settlements AND the weapon manufacturers delivering arms to Israel! By targeting BNP, were checking two boxes at once.
The UN has exposed: 97 companies have enabled and profited from illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine and nearly half of these receive investments from BNP. These loans and underwritings amount to a whopping 28 million USD and to 4.6 million USD in shares and bonds in these companies.
Palestinians are human beings, parents, doctors, teachers, bakers, grandchildren, students, friends, engineers, elders, robbed of each one of their most basic human rights. They have been undergoing an unimaginable amount of suffering over generations and the ongoing genocide has inspired even more settler violence, with at least 1,423 violent attacks by settlers resulting in severe destruction, injuries, humiliation, and deaths and more land grabs.
Its time to make financiers like BNP ashamed of their actions. Leaving them no rest until they respect basic human rights and international law.
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"Only an alert & knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial & military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods & goals, so that security & liberty may prosper together". Dwight D.Eisenhower.
Same in so many countries. It's not the Palestinian people that are bad, it's a select small group. Ukraine people are wonderful, I know 3 very well, it's the same 1% again. Iranian people are wonderful, trained with many, but for a few of the same type of assholes. Generally I believe the majority of people are good, probably 99%. 1% is the baddies.
Baddies and assholes = globalists and generally all government personel.
Palestinians are human beings, parents, doctors, teachers, bakers, grandchildren, students, friends, engineers, elders, robbed of each one of their most basic human rights. They have been undergoing an unimaginable amount of suffering over generations and the ongoing genocide has inspired even more settler violence, with at least 1,423 violent attacks by settlers resulting in severe destruction, injuries, humiliation, and deaths and more land grabs.
And all of them were dancing in the streets on October 7th after the massacre.
What? They aren't dancing in the street no more? Oh that's right -- all the streets are rubble now.
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What is to give light must endure burning -- Viktor Frankl