4 December, NYC: #UNDropG4S: Protest UN support for Israel occupation and prison contractor G4S

Friday, December 4
4:00 pm
G4S Secure Solutions- New York City
19 W 44th St, New York, New York 10036
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/135271336837131/

Tell British-Danish security firm G4S to stop supporting Israeli checkpoints, detention centers, military and security forces, and prisons, and the United Nations to end its complicity in Israel’s crimes against Palestinians, including over $22 million in annual contracts with G4S.

G4S, the world’s largest security company and second-biggest private employer, equips and maintains the Israeli detention centers and jails where Palestinian political prisoners, including children, are held and tortured, as well as the occupation forces and infrastructure that routinely massacre Palestinians while holding millions under military rule.

While professing commitment to both Palestinian rights and ethical contracting, UN agencies lavish G4S with lucrative business deals, after seven months of appeals by Palestinian human rights groups to end them, and despite the company’s participation in Israeli atrocities.

Join us to answer a united appeal by Palestinian prisoners for escalated boycotts of G4S, and to build a new global campaign against the UN’s support for this notorious prison and occupation profiteer.

Support the Palestinian people, the Palestinian prisoners, the Palestinian Resistance, and the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.

Background information:

“UN faces pressure over contracts with G4S”
http://www.bdsmovement.net/2015/un-faces-pressure-over-contracts-with-g4s-13291

“Over 220 Palestinian and international organizations demand United Nations cancel G4S contracts”
http://samidoun.net/2015/09/over-220-palestinian-and-international-organizations-demand-united-nations-cancel-g4s-contracts

“Palestinian Boycott National Committee calls for action, responds to prisoners’ movement call”
http://samidoun.net/2015/08/palestinian-boycott-national-committee-calls-for-action-responds-to-prisoners-movement-call

“Stop G4S: A call to the global boycott movement from Palestinian political prisoners”
http://samidoun.net/2015/08/stop-g4s-a-call-to-the-global-boycott-movement-from-palestinian-political-prisoners

“Why does UN hire G4S, accomplice to Israeli torture?”
https://electronicintifada.net/content/why-does-un-hire-g4s-accomplice-israeli-torture/14661

“Letter to Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon”
http://www.addameer.org/userfiles/Letter%20to%20Secretary%20General%20Ban%20Ki-Moon.pdf

“Why is the United Nations doing business with G4S, notorious prison supplier?”
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/09/business-notorious-supplier

“Palestinian civil society and human rights organisations mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day with call for action against Israeli prison contractor G4S”
http://www.bdsmovement.net/2012/prisoners-day-g4s-call-8887