Petitions demanding boycotting Israeli goods delivered to Dunnes Stores 29 July 2010

Thursday 29th July 2010, at 1pm, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) delivered a petition to Dunnes Stores signed by over 6,000 shoppers across Ireland. The petition demands that Dunnes Stores stop stocking Israeli products, until Israel respects Palestinian rights and international law. Present at the handing-in were Brendan Archbold, the trade union official at the centre of the 1980s Dunnes strike when workers refused to handle South African goods, Freda Hughes IPSC National Chairperson, Aengus O'Snodaigh TD of Sinn Fein along with supporters of the campaign and members of both the Palestinian and South African communities in Ireland.

The petition has been signed by over 6,000 shoppers in a two-week blitz that has seen Palestine solidarity activists enlist the support of Dunnes' customers across the country. Signatures have flooded in from Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Derry, Limerick, Galway, Kilkenny, Newry, Wexford, Waterford, Bantry, Gorey, Enniscorthy, and Sligo. In many locations around the country, solidarity activists presented their local Dunnes' managers with copies of the petitions they have collected.

This campaign comes a quarter-century after Dunnes was at the centre of a bitter two-year campaign of boycott and pickets, when it sacked a group of workers who refused to handle South African goods.
(c) Paula Geraghty
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[Narayanan5]

I applaud and respect you for your sense of justice and compassion for people who are being oppressed. I suppose the unjustices and outrages the Irish people themselves have suffered over their history make them especially sensitive to such wrongs.

[theliammurphy]

Go in to the head of purchasing. Find out how much they are being charged from the spuds. get a commitment from him he'll buy irish if the irish match the rate. tell him youll get the hippies off his door step if he does. Tell the hippies to harass the farmers to meet the rate. Result!!

[theliammurphy]

Go in to the head of purchasing. Find out how much they are being charged from the spuds. get a commitment from him he'll buy irish if the irish match the rate. tell him youll get the hippies off his door step if he does. Tell the hippies to harass the farmers to meet the rate. Result!!

[91177info]

Great work!

[TcheeGivara1]

Where my comment?

[TcheeGivara1]

Great thanks to all Irish people you are fair wish God save all of you great actions

[fedaynasr27]

Very good Paula