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Why Boycott Veolia?

Contents:

Introduction

Action so far

Important Recent Developments

Suggested Campaign Action

Addresses

Suggested Letter to leave with shops etc. you ask to switch from Veolia to another refuse collector

Article from Pulse Media

Article by Ruth Tenne

Related Links and articles

Introduction

The Veolia parent company is Veolia Environnement, a French multinational. Veolia Transport, a subsidiary of Veolia Environnement, is a leading partner in the CityPass consortium, contracted  to build a light rail tramway system linking west Jerusalem to illegal Jewish settlements such as Pisgat Ze'ev, French Hill, Neve Ya'akov and Gilo in occupied east Jerusalem.  Once built, the rail system will help to cement Israel's hold on occupied east Jerusalem and tie the settlements even more firmly into the State of Israel.  And not only the settlements in east Jerusalem: the project states that the “Ammunition Hill” station of the network will operate as the feeder station for settler traffic from Ma’aleh Adumim, a large Israeli settlement in the West Bank, and from Jewish settlements in the Jordan Valley.

The complete system is due for completion in 2020, with Veolia responsible for the operation.  The first line will open in 2010.  With its involvement in this project, the company is directly implicated in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory and is playing a key role in Israel's attempt to make its annexation of the Palestinian territory of east Jerusalem irreversible.  As a willing agent of these policies, Veolia is undermining any chance of a just peace for the Palestinian people.

Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the annexation of East Jerusalem are illegal under international law.  Numerous UN resolutions and the 2004 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the wall have confirmed this.  The settlements violate Article 49 of the 4th Geneva Convention, which provides that:: “...The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies” as well as Article 53, which forbids destruction of property. These violations in some cases in east Jerusalem amount to war crimes, i.e. “grave breaches” of the Convention, (see Articles 146 and 147), as they involve appropriation of Palestinian property not justified by military necessity. These grave breaches are being facilitated by Veolia’s participation in the construction and future operation of the tramway serving the settlements.

In November 2006, ASN, a Dutch bank, broke off financial relations with Veolia on account of the light rail contract.  Veolia also runs Luas, Dublin's light rail system, but has been forced by Trade Union pressure in Ireland to cancel a proposed deal to train drivers and engineers for the Jerusalem light rail.  In 2007 AFPS, a French NGO, and the PLO, started court cases in France against Veolia Transport and Alstom, another CityPass partner, to get their contract for the tramway invalidated on the grounds that its aim breached the French Civil Code as being in contradiction with public order and good morals (see http://electronicintafada.net/v2/article9104.shtml).

Meanwhile, Veolia Environmental Services runs waste collection and recycling for several local authorities in the UK and so provides a local target for appropriate action. It is clear from the parent company’s annual reports and website that the company is one coherent whole and so the misconduct of one division is the misconduct of Veolia as a whole and all divisions and subsidiaries are implicated.  Veolia Water and Veolia Transport are also UK subsidiaries.

Action so far

Lambeth and Camden PSC branches have asked their borough councils not to sign or maintain contracts with Veolia, but have up to now been unable to counter the argument that to simply boycott or blacklist Veolia would be illegal.  Portsmouth Network Veolia Campaign supporters have met the same response from Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton councils, who also refused to ask Veolia to pull out of the tramway project.  Portsmouth Network was unsuccessful in getting the local press print letters about the issue.

Portsmouth campaigners have written to the CEO of Veolia Environmental Services UK (no reply) and also John Gummer, Chairman of Veolia Water UK, and a Conservative politician.  Gummer replied, concluding “Veolia Environnement will continue to look closely at the issues surrounding this matter”.  Campaigners have also urged managers of ethical funds to avoid investing in Veolia, and local shops to switch their rubbish collection contracts from Veolia to another supplier.

Important Recent Developments

A lawyer from Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR) has overseen significant research that makes a strong legal case for local authorities excluding Veolia Environmental Services from bidding for local authority contracts.  This will enable campaigners to challenge local authorities with compelling arguments based on the current law, primarily the Public Contracts Regulations 2006.

The main points of the legal argument are:

• The Veolia Group is one commercial entity, so any part of it is implicated in the misconduct of any other part.
• Under the Public Contract Regulations 2006 a company may be excluded from bidding if it has “committed an act of grave misconduct in the course of its business”.
• Through Veolia Transport’s participation in the CityPass consortium project, the whole Veolia Group, including its subsidiary Veolia Environmental Services, is implicated in facilitating Israel’s violation of Articles 49 and 53 of the 4th Geneva Convention.  These violations in some cases in east Jerusalem amount to grave breaches of the Convention (i.e. war crimes).
• The UK’s Office of Government Commerce cites examples of grave misconduct sufficient to exclude companies from contracts, including transgressions relating to labour rights, health and safety, and the environment.  Facilitating serious and far-reaching breaches of international law, including war crimes, is at least as serious misconduct as the examples cited.
• Veolia also violates international standards specifically established for business:
• The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (2000) state that enterprises should “Respect the human rights of those affected by their activities consistent with the host government’s international obligations and commitments”.  The Palestinians’ land is illegally taken to build the tramway and they have to endure illegal settlements planted in their midst.
• The UN Global Compact (2000), of which Veolia is a member, states that businesses should support and respect the protection of international human rights within their spheres of influence, and make sure they are not complicit in human rights abuses.

Violation of these international standards also amount to grave misconduct.  (The conduct does not have to be illegal, let alone criminal, to be grave).

It is hoped that a legal challenge will soon be mounted to stop a local authority renewing its contract with Veolia.

Once the Solicitor’s initial letter has been drafted it will be made available to campaigners so they can adapt it for use to challenge local authorities themselves.  Councils without contracts with Veolia could be asked to exclude them from any future bidding; those with contracts due for renewal in the next year or two could be asked not to renew them; and those with long term contracts might even be asked to terminate them.

If they do not give a satisfactory response, legal action could be the next move.  Irrespective of the outcome, legal action itself will be a significant opportunity for creating greater public awareness of Israel’s violations of international law.

Campaign Action to Take

• Challenge Local Authorities (see above).
• Write to the CEOs or Chairpersons of Veolia Environmental Services UK, Veolia Water UK and Veolia Transport UK, asking them to get the parent company, Veolia Environnement to withdraw Veolia Transport from the CityPass  Consortium and the Jerusalem tramway project.  (see below for addresses)
• Write to the Managers of ethical unit trusts and OEICs urging them not to invest funds in any Veolia or Alstom company.  Alstom are also part of the Citypass consortium and build the trams. (see below for addresses)
• Visit local shops and businesses with Veolia Environmental Services, Onyx or Cleanaway rubbish skips (all belonging to Veolia Environmental Services), give them an explanatory letter and ask them to switch to another rubbish collection firm.  For those that are part of a chain, with rubbish contracts controlled centrally, write to head offices asking them to switch.  Do the same with churches and church halls, mosques etc.  (See below for sample letters and some addresses of chains).
• Publicize the issue and your action in the Media
• Follow up your actions, e.g. write again if no reply, revisit shops if they don’t switch rubbish contracts.
• Inform PSC () about action taken.

Addresses (Ask for reply by email and forward answers to PSC)

CEOs or Chairpersons of Veolia Companies in UK

Mr. Jean Dominique-Mallet, Chief Executive Officer

Veolia Environmental Services UK
Veolia House
154 Pentonville Road,  London N1 9PE
Mr. John O’Brien, Chairman
Veolia Transport UK
37-41 Old Queen Street
London SW1H 9JA


The Rt Hon. John S. Gummer, MP, Chairman
Veolia Water UK
37-41 Old Queen Street
London SW1H 9JA

Ethical Unit Trusts and OEICs

(Address to The Investment Manager.  Where funds are on different lines below, contact separately as they probably have different managers. )

F&C Stewardship Income and Growth Funds
F&C Stewardship International Fund
F&C Investments, Exchange House
Primrose Street
London EC2A 2NY

Insight European Ethical Fund
Insight Evergreen Fund
33 Old Broad Street
London EC2N 1HZ

Norwich Sustainable Future European Growth Fund
Norwich Sustainable Future Absolute Growth Fund
Norwich Sustainable Future Global Growth Fund
Norwich Sustainable Future Managed Fund
PO Box 530
York YO90 1WA

Henderson Global Care Growth Fund
Henderson Global Care Managed Fund
National Provident House
55 Calverley Road
Tunbridge Wells TN1 2UE

Jupiter Ecology Fund
PO Box 300, West Malling ME19 4YY

Neptune Green Planet Fund
1 Hammersmith Grove
London W6 DNB

SJP Ethical Fund
St James Place UK Ltd
St James Place House
Dollar Street
Cirencester GL7 2AQ

Some businesses, etc., with multiple premises, using Veolia Environmental Services to collect their waste  (as of Oct 2007).

PDSA, Head Office
Whitechapel Way
Prioslee
Telford TF2 9PQ

Alliance Boots
Sedley Place
4th Floor, 361 Oxford Street
London W1C2JL

Cooks The Bakery
Head Office
4-5 The Quadrangle
Cranmore Avenue
Solihull B90 4LE

Fuller Smith and Turner
Griffin Brewery
Chiswick Lane South
Chiswick
London W42QB

Suggested letter to leave with shops etc. you ask to switch from Veolia to another refuse collector:

Your Contract with Veolia Environmental Services (also trading as, or owners of, Onyx and Cleanaway)

This is to let you know how the parent company of Veolia Environmental Services, the company handling your waste collection, is facilitating Israel’s violations of the Geneva Convention and international law in the occupied Palestinian territories.  After reading this you may want to consider choosing another company to collect your waste.

The Veolia parent company is Veolia Environnement, a French multinational.  Veolia Transport, a subsidiary of Veolia Environnement, is  a leading partner in the CityPass consortium, contracted  to build a light rail tramway system linking Israel to illegal Jewish settlements in occupied east Jerusalem.  Once built, the rail system will help to cement Israel's hold on occupied east Jerusalem and tie the settlements even more firmly into the State of Israel.

The complete system is due for completion in 2020, with Veolia responsible for the operation.  The first line will open in 2010.  With its involvement in this project, the company is playing a key role in Israel's attempt to make its annexation of the Palestinian territory of east Jerusalem irreversible.  As a willing agent of these policies, Veolia is undermining any chance of a just peace for the Palestinian people.

According to the Fourth Geneva Convention an occupying power is not allowed to annex territory, as Israel has purported to do in East Jerusalem, or drastically change the infrastructure in the territory it occupies (except for the benefit of the occupied population).  It is also not allowed to move its population into the occupied territory, as Israel has done with its settlements.  The British Government does not recognise Israel’s annexation of East Jerusalem and it has repeatedly stated its view that the Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank contravene international law.  The International Court of Justice in 2004 confirmed that Israel is an occupying power in East Jerusalem and the West Bank and that building the settlements (and the Wall) in occupied Palestinian territories is illegal.  The International Court made clear that states should not do anything to assist Israel in its unlawful settlement activities.  Yet Veolia is involved in building and operating a tramline that runs through the occupied Palestinian territories and sustains the settlements.

In November 2006, ASN, a Dutch bank, broke off financial relations with Veolia on account of the light rail contract.  Veolia also runs Luas, Dublin's light rail system, and has been forced by Trade Union pressure to cancel a proposed deal to train drivers and engineers for the Jerusalem light rail.  ASN stated “We believe that Veolia’s involvement in the light rail project is not in accordance with the UN’s demand to stop all support for Israel’s settlement activities, and is therefore not in line with ASN Bank’s social criteria.  Due to the direct nature of Veolia’s involvement (through a 5 % stake in the consortium and as future operator) we are of the opinion that Veolia’s activities in Jerusalem are in conflict with UN Resolutions.  Therefore on this current information Veolia will be removed from our investment universe.”

In the light of the information above, you may feel that you do not want to be associated with the Veolia Group. If your contract with them gives you the right to terminate in such circumstances I urge you to do so and to tell them why.  You may also wish to write to the parent company, Veolia Environnement, asking them to terminate their contract for the Jerusalem light rail tramway.

The address of Veolia Environnement is:
Veolia Environnement
36-38 Avenue Kleber
75116 Paris
France

(Tel: 0033 17175 0000

Fax:  003317175 1045)

Yours sincerely,

(Signed either by the person contacting the shop manager, or the campaign supporter in the area with the best knowledge of the issue, in both cases with telephone number).

Article from Pulse Media

With thanks to Angus Geddes and Ruth Tenne.

If you live in the UK, check the rubbish skips used by your place of worship and local shops and businesses: if they are using Veolia Environmental Services, Onyx or Cleanaway get them to switch to another contractor. All these indicate Veolia, the multinational company aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes. For contracts with local councils, where Veolia has a contract expiring within the next two or three years we can be sure that Veolia will bid for the replacement contract, so these are the key councils to challenge to exclude Veolia.

So how is Veolia involved in apartheid Israel? A large French multinational employing 320,000 people, Veolia is helping build and operate a tramway linking illegal Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem with Israel. Not only do the settlements contravene article 49 of the 4th Geneva Convention, but in most cases their establishment involved war crimes too. The tramway tightens Israel’s hold on occupied East Jerusalem, ties the settlements more firmly into Israel and undermines chances of a just peace for the Palestinian people. So don’t let your local authority give Veolia Environmental Services contracts for waste management or Veolia Transport contracts for bus services. Ask local businesses using Veolia to switch to another rubbish collector.

The Derail Veolia campaign is gathering momentum, internationally and in UK. In February 2009 Veolia lost a 3.5 billion Euro contract to run the Stockholm metro. In June, in Australia, Veolia failed to renew their contract for Melbourne’s train system. Here in UK more than a dozen local authorities are being challenged to exclude Veolia. Under the Public Contract Regulations 2006 a company can be excluded from a contract on the grounds of grave misconduct. What could be graver than aiding and abetting war crimes? After a campaign by West Midlands Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Veolia failed to get on Sandwell Borough Council’s short list for a rubbish collection contract. Stockholm, Melbourne and Sandwell say their decisions were purely commercial. Campaigners do not believe this. Veolia, we think, are getting the message.

Veolia’s support for settlements does not stop there. Through its subsidiary TMM it owns and operates the Tovlan landfill site in the occupied Jordan Valley. Tovlan takes refuse from illegal settlements, and from Israel too, as well as from Palestinian towns such as Nablus.

There are press reports that Veolia is buckling under the pressure and wants to get out of the Jerusalem project. The company won’t comment (June 2009). But it must give up more than the tramway. Veolia also runs two bus services serving the same function as the tramway: supporting and consolidating illegal settlements and tying them more closely into Israel. These are services 109 and 110, operated by its local company Connex. The 110 bus serves Ramot Alon, Giv’at Ze’ev and Beit Horon illegal settlements, linking them to west Jerusalem at one end of the route and Israel (in the direction of Tel Aviv) at the other end. Service 109 links illegal settlement Mevo Horon with west Jerusalem, calling at Modiin Illit and Giv’at Ze’ev settlements too. Both use road 443, on which Palestinians are forbidden to travel. So both are Apartheid, Israeli only bus services.

Alstom has a 20% stake in the CityPass Consortium building the tramway, RWE npower has contracts with Alstom to build two electric power stations in UK. Pressure needs to be put on RWE npower to exclude Alstom from any further contracts.



Tramway route in blue
Separation wall in red
1949 Armistice line (“green line”) in green
Israeli illegal settlements in purple

Jacky Rowland has this Al Jazeera feature from late last year:

Veolia and Alstom, by Ruth Tenne

While word leaders take no meaningful action against Israel's ongoing breaches of international law, Palestine solidarity groups will continue to campaign against commercial interests that aid and abet Israel's illegal actions and strengthen her dominance over the Palestinian people, says Ruth Tenne.


FRENCH COMPANIES IN BREACH OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

The British Government, in line with international law, declares on its Foreign and Commonwealth Office's website that “The UK considers that Israeli settlement building anywhere in the OPTs is illegal under international law. This includes settlements in both East Jerusalem and the West Bank”. However, unlike France, the British Government does not seem to translate its official policy and statement on the illegality of settlements into civil law. The French civil law in its articles 6,1131 and 1133 states that any agreement can be discharged of its powers when its aim is in contradiction with public order or good morals. On these grounds AFPS, a French NGO, is challenging the contracts of two French multi-nationals - Alstom and Veolia Transport - in a French court. Both companies are involved in building a light railway that links West Jerusalem with illegal Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem. In April 2009 a French court in Nanterre rejected the two companies' claim that it had no jurisdiction in the case against them. The court reaffirmed that Israel is the occupying power in East Jerusalem and confirmed the illegality of Israeli colonies built on occupied Palestinian land, including East Jerusalem.

Reports from Israel indicate that the Derail Veolia and Alstom campaign, which has so far cost Veolia some 7.5 billion dollars in lost contracts, seems to be having an effect on Veolia's business decisions. The Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reported (9 June 2009) that "In a body-blow to the future Jerusalem light rail, the French company Veolia, which was supposed to run the train system after its construction, is abandoning the project" It goes on to say "As for the Jerusalem system, Veolia not only wants out of running the future train; it's trying to sell its 5% stake in Citypass, the light rail consortium".

However, campaigners in Britain who contacted Veolia have not received any confirmation of those reports. Moreover, Veolia supports illegal settlements in other ways too. It is involved in operating the Tovlan landfill site in the occupied Jordan Valley which takes refuse from illegal settlements as well as from the Palestinian town of Nablus. Veolia also runs two bus services which support and consolidate illegal settlements by linking them with Israel. Both bus services use road 443, on which Palestinians are forbidden to travel, a clear example of Israel's Apartheid policies.

In light of the continued involvement of Veolia in projects which are sustaining Israel’s illegal occupation, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign decided to intensify its Derail Veolia campaign to secure Veolia’s withdrawal from projects which service Israel's unlawful occupation of Palestinian territories. In recent weeks a special appeal was issued to members, requesting them to write to Westminster City Council "to exclude Veolia from future contracts on grounds of grave misconduct". Although PSC members have had a measure of success in challenging a number of UK Councils which have contracts with Veolia, (see R.Tenne : Derailing Veolia in the UK), the appeal to Westminster City Council was regarded as central to the PSC campaign. Westminster Council is responsible for waste management in areas which are at the heart of the capital and have worldwide historical and cultural importance. Veolia’s contract with Westminster Council is due to expire in September 2010. Thus, any future contract with the Company will cover the period (2012) when London will be hosting the Olympic Games - offering Veolia global publicity and recognition. A letter has been sent to the leader of Westminster Council (Conservative) which was copied to the Councillors on the Waste Collection Contract Committee and to the opposition party leader (Labour) on the Council. In addition, a special letter is to be sent to the Minister for London and the Olympics - Tessa Jowell.

The letter to Westminster Council stated that Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the annexation of East Jerusalem are illegal under international law. Numerous UN resolutions and the 2004 advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the wall have confirmed this. The settlements violate Article 49 of the 4th Geneva Convention which says that "the Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies” and Article 53 is forbidding destruction of property. In some cases in East Jerusalem these violations amount to war crimes, i.e. “grave breaches” of the Convention (see Articles 146 and 147), as they involve extensive appropriation of Palestinian property not justified by military necessity. These grave breaches are being facilitated by Veolia’s part in the construction and future operation of the tramway serving the settlements. The tramway also constitutes a significant alteration of the infrastructure of the occupied Palestinian territories contrary to the Hague Regulations of 1907, Section 3, which is also part of international law. Thus, through its involvement in the building and future operation of this tramway linking Israel’s illegal settlements with West Jerusalem, Veolia is facilitating Israel's ‘grave breaches’ of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and is complicit in its perpetuation of those breaches. In other words, Veolia is involved in aiding and abetting on-going war crimes. It is also facilitating, exacerbating, aiding and abetting Israel’s breach of the Hague Regulations".

The letter goes on to say "Veolia’s participation in the tramway project also breaches its obligations with respect to codes of conduct and conventions such as the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (2000) and the UN Global Compact (2000). The latter’s first two principles state that businesses should support and respect the protection of international human rights within their spheres of influence and make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses. Yet by supporting Israel’s illegal settlements Veolia flagrantly violates both of these provisions............ Under the Public Contract Regulations 2006 a contracting authority may exclude an economic operator from bidding for a contract or may reject any such bid where it is found that the individual or organisation in question has "committed an act of grave misconduct in the course of his business or profession" (section 23(4)(e)). We are sure you will agree that this is a highly important provision which must be applied rigorously. Veolia’s activities clearly constitute misconduct sufficiently grave to warrant the exclusion of its subsidiaries from public contracts. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine what ‘misconduct’ could be more ‘grave’ than the aiding, abetting, facilitation or exacerbation of war crimes and human rights violations."

In its enclosing paragraph the letter highlights the implications that a contract awarded to Veolia over the period of the Olympic Games may have for Britain’s reputation "The replacement contract will cover the period of the Olympic Games. Awarding it to Veolia would expose Westminster, the heart of the capital, to public criticism and international condemnation. Condemnation for employing a company aiding and abetting war crimes could be so severe that it would cast a shadow over the games themselves".

I signed the above-quoted model letter to Westminster Council by adding : "As an Israeli peace activist, who has witnessed the plight of the Palestinians for the past 61 years, I urge you to exclude Veolia from bidding for any future contract and thus act in line with British and international law which regard the West Bank settlements as illegal and consider activities that sustain and expand settlement growth as breaches of international law ."

The Derail Veolia campaign has its sights on another important London contract. In January 2008 Veolia was awarded a contract by the Greater London Authority(GLA) for waste collection and street cleaning in the Trafalgar Square and House of Commons area, at the heart of British democracy. The contract is due to end in January 2011 with an option to extend it for two more years. To stop Veolia being granted an extension of its present contract a letter has been sent to the Mayor of London, with copies to members of the opposition parties (Labour, Liberal Democrats and Greens) on the London Assembly of the GLA, requesting their support for excluding Veolia from GLA's future contracts. The letter ended by saying "London's reputation could suffer severely if it renews a contract with a company aiding and abetting severe breaches of the 4th Geneva Convention, particularly as the world begins to focus more and more on London with the approach of the Olympics."

The sentiment of the Palestine solidarity movement which are engaged in the Derail Veolia and Alstom campaign could perhaps be expressed best by the words of Labour MP Martin Linton (July 2009)) "the Israeli Government believe that they have some kind of dispensation to flout international law, not only by harassing ships in international waters, but also by building settlements and walls on occupied land and by blockading people in Gaza". While word leaders take no meaningful action against Israel's ongoing breaches of international law, Palestine solidarity groups will continue to campaign against commercial interests that aid and abet Israel's illegal actions and strengthen her dominance over the Palestinian people.

Ruth Tenne was born and bought up in Israel by staunch Zionist parents who were among the founders of the socialist Kibbutzim’s movement. She served as a conscript in the Israeli army during the 1956 Sinai War and as a reservist in the 1967 Six Days War. She is currently an active member of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC), Camden- Abu Dis Friendship Association (CADFA), and Jews for Justice for Palestinians (JFJFP).

Related Links and Articles:

Time to hold Veolia to account, by Adri Nieuwhof and Daniel Machover, 10 February 2009

Consolidation of Jerusalem annexation continues with light rail, 02-07-07

PLO takes Veolia Transport and Alstom to court in France, 20-11-07

Jerusalem Town Planning Scheme 2000

Technical details of the light rail project

The Light Rail System divides the city of Jerusalem, 09-05-08

http://stopthewall.org/factsheets/1047.shtml

Lambeth & Wandswoth PSC leaflet on Veolia

Jerusalem's Apartheid Tramway - Le Monde

Electronic Intifada investigates Veolia and Connex's links to Apartheid Israel

Irish Union Refusing to Train Israeli Tram Drivers — workers in Dublin will not train Israeli drivers to work on illegal settlements more

ASN Bank divests from Veolia after boycott call more, Ha aretz Article

Support the Stop the Wall call to Stop Connex and Alstrom developing settlement infrastructure in Jerusalem

Action Alert: Ask Veolia advisors to take a stand for Justice in Palestine!

Palestinian call against Connex & Alstom

Isolate Israel - Campaign for justice! By Adri Nieuwhof

The Israel Veolia "Connexxion"By Adri Nieuwhof

First Bank decides to Divest! Dutch Civil Society challenges investments in the Occupation

Connex Ireland forced to cancel contract with Occupation

Challenging Tramways of Apartheid - Swiss activists block Connex shuttle run

International experts urged to withdraw from Veolia Institute