Nordstrom promotes itself as a socially responsible company that supports “quality business principles” but is it really socially responsible when it profits by selling AHAVA products that are made from stolen resources in a factory on occupied land? Confronting Nordstrom’s support and sale of AHAVA products is our current action to “boycott, divest and sanction” [...]
Monday, March 1, 2010
“Lift the siege of Gaza! Free Palestine!” young men are chanting as they slog through the muddy road and, noticing me holding out a plastic bag filled with square pink peace flags, crowd around to grab one. The prayer flags quickly pepper the march with soft pink hues and the endearing messages of peace from kids and their grandparents, moms and daughters from all over America contrast with the loud chants coming from the rear of a pickup truck equipped with mega speakers and the mostly male march. Other signs saying “Women Say Free Gaza” in English and Arabic and are also snatched up by the male marchers. But men carrying signs speaking for women is not enough and I can’t stop wondering, “Where are the women?”
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Excerpt from speech by Dr. Phillis Starkey, Minister of Parliament, made on 1/27/10 regarding labeling of Israeli settlement products. This section focuses on AHAVA Dead Sea Laboratories. Full transcript of the day’s debates in Parliament available here. The text below comes from a marginally edited version posted by the U.K. site Jews for Justice for [...]
Monday, January 18, 2010
In mid-December Rula Borelli, prompted by a friend who brought her attention to the fact that AHAVA products were on sale at Costco, sent a letter to the company asking them to remove AHAVA from their shelves, explaining about AHAVA’s illegal practices and the Stolen Beauty boycott campaign against them. Borelli then started a Facebook [...]
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
The Real News just published this compelling 10-min. clip detailing the purpose and history of current efforts to boycott Israeli products, how it relates to the international boycott of South Africa in the late ’80s during its apartheid, and CODEPINK’s new “Stolen Beauty” boycott campaign of the Israeli cosmetics company, Ahava. It’s especially interesting to [...]
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Jezebel.com just posted a photo and info from CODEPINK’s Ahava action in DC yesterday — here. The comments are all over the place, some supportive, some wondering why we’re wearing bikinis (just for attention? because we can?), and some just wondering what we’re doing. To explain a bit: the demonstration was part of CODEPINK’s new [...]
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
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