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From: Scottish PSC [mailto:secretary@scottishpsc.org.uk]
Sent: 25 April 2012 16:03
To: 'Scottish PSC'
Subject: Scottish TUC delegates join Palestine freedom struggle – unanimously!

Scottish TUC delegates join Palestine freedom struggle – unanimously!

The delegates to the Annual Conference of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), the umbrella group for every trade union in Scotland, today voted unanimously and repeatedly against Israeli apartheid. The 450 delegates voted to:

• campaign to expose the role of the racist JNF (Jewish National Fund) in the Israeli apartheid system
• support the participants in the Welcome to Palestine initiative who tried to travel peacefully to Palestine via Tel Aviv Airport
• fully support the Palestinian-Brazilian call for the World Social Forum-Free Palestine in Brazil in November
• support the Palestinian hunger strikers and the work of Addameer, the Palestinian prisoner support organisation.

Congress delegates congratulated the students for their work organising Israeli Apartheid Week 2012 events, and who initiated action in support of the Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, and called for support for the Scottish demonstration this Saturday 28th April in Edinburgh.

These decisions of the Scottish TUC in support of the Palestinian freedom struggle, by a union confederation representing half a million organised workers in every sector of the economy, will be widely seen as a continuation of the international solidarity the STUC also provided to the liberation struggle in South Africa. Glasgow, Scotland's biggest city, named a city centre street after Mandela in 1986 while he was still on Robben Island. How long till there is a Palestine Square or Palestine Street in our major cities?

 
The full text of the resolutions – all passed unanimously: http://t.ymlp270.net/bheaoamwujakaqmazabyms/click.php
 
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Zie in Presidents Address de speech van Mike Kirby, STUC-president.
En tevens Scottish Secretary of UNISON the public services trade union. 
 
… There is a growing apartheid elsewhere, in Palestine. …

 
… And whatever the challenges we face at home, these will not find resolution in a narrow national or domestic context. e European Trade Union Movement could play a critically important role, and we could play a greater role in that movement, in combating xenophobic nationalism.

 
By providing a clear vision, by organising, by arguing that good and fair employment rights, a well trained, competent, confident and valued workforce can benefit business, and in the sector which gave me employment for thirty six years, can put the ‘public’ in Public Services, that’s the type of place this labour and Trade Union Movement strives for, because we know that there Is A Better Way. …

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Decent Work en Decent Life verwoest door Israelische leger

Lees over een actuele casus uit de Jordaanvallei. Over hoe Israel Palestijnen verdrijft en zo hun leven en werken daar onmogelijk maakt.

De internationale vakbeweging voert campagne voor Decent Work en Decent Life, inzake de Palestijnen gebeurt dat wat weinig.

Verslag: the family of 7 stood 20 meters back as the soldiers ripped bags of lentils and rice and destroyed their house

Palestijnse vissers uit Gaza worden aangevallen door Israelische marine

The siege in the sea: Accompanying Gaza’s fishermen under attack by the Israeli Navy, Rosa Schiano19-4-2012.

To accompany the fishermen of Gaza on their boats, as human shields to protect them, it provides not only an account of human rights violations by Israel, but also the feeling of what it means to live under siege in the Gaza Strip.

Since January 2009 Israel has unilaterally imposed a travel limit of three miles inside the waters of Gaza, which , according to the Jericho Accords, should extend up to 20 nautical miles from the coast. A 3 miles limit is actually illegal.

Israeli navy seals are stationed along this 3 mile boundary, attacking anyone who attempts to go beyond and often attacking the fishermen’s boats well within this limit.

As international observers of the boat “Oliva CPS Gaza”  monitor the human rights violations by the Israeli army in the waters of Gaza, we have witnessed many attacks which took place also within two miles from the coast.

Within three miles the fish are not enough, and the waters are often contaminated.
The fishermen, especially all those who sail with the “hasakas,” or local small boats, come back often with nearly empty coffers.

Voor meer zie The siege in the sea accompanying Gazas fishermen under attack by the Israeli navy

Massa-hongerstaking Palestijnse gevangenen en ander Palestijns nieuws

Lees in massa-hongerstaking Palestijnse gevangenen

• over 3500 Palestijnse gevangenen in hongerstaking,
• over gevangenen zoals Bassam Tamimi waarvoor Amnesty International actie voert, zie
  Palestinian prisoner of conscience on trial for defending right to protest

en over de verwoesting van Palestijnse eigendommen (bestaansmiddelen):

• 'Israelische militairen hebben maandag irrigatiereservoirs, en terrasgewijs opgebouwde landbouwgrond in het gebied al Majnouna bij Al-Dura in Zuid-Hebron met de grond gelijkgemaakt. Daarbij werd een veld van 2000 vierkante meter beplant met tuinbonen, komkommer, tomaten en bloemkool weggebulldozerd. Behalve reservoirs en irrigatiewerken werd ook landbouwgereedschap vernield.'