February 26, 2015 /
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What did you do??? Less than three hours after we sent out yesterday’s announcement, we got word from Bank of the West Chief Counsel Quinn Osborne that he had retrieved the money from Bank of New York Mellon. They weren’t able to get it to us by the end of the day, but told us…
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February 25, 2015 /
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With apologies to Barb Weir, the title is obviously tongue in cheek. And doubly ironic after yesterday’s developments. Yesterday we thought we might have a breakthrough when we finally received a statement from Bank of the West Chief Counsel, Quinn Osborne, that Bank of New York Mellon was in fact refusing to return our funds…
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February 22, 2015 /
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Your calls and emails have caused Bank of NY Mellon and Bank of the West to twice postpone their deadlines for threatened actions. As you know, the Free Palestine Movement is a human rights advocacy organization and its sister, the Palestine Children’s Welfare Fund is a humanitarian aid organization. Is it likely that we will…
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February 21, 2015 /
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Advertisements calling attention to Israel’s brutal 51-day military assault on Gaza last summer, as well as its continuing illegal occupation and confiscation of Palestinian land, went on display on San Francisco municipal buses Feb. 2. Israel’s military assault on Gaza from July 7 to August 16, 2014 killed 2,131 Palestinians, including 1,473 civilians—501 of them…
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February 20, 2015 /
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Yesterday we received a call from Tanya Kazak, the Vice President and Compliance Manager for Bank of the West within 15 minutes of posting our appeal for your action. She had already received five calls and by the time we finished talking, she had received twelve. Karen Nelson at the local branch was routing her…
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February 19, 2015 /
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It’s true. You sent us nearly $5000 and now the banks are refusing to release the funds. We tried to send the first $3720 of that amount from our account at Bank of the West to the Charitable Association for Palestinian Relief in Lebanon. For this transaction, Bank of the West used the international banking…
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January 25, 2015 /
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January 17, 2015 /
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The Free Palestine Movement asks you to help Palestinians in Gaza by donating to our sister organization, the Palestine Children’s Welfare Fund. Adel al-Lahham, less than one month old, is one of three infants that have frozen to death in Gaza this winter. The New York Times reports that Adel and two others died from…
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December 21, 2014 /
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The Free Palestine Movement welcomes the decision by the European Union General Court to remove the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) from the EU list of terrorist groups. The court found that placement on the list had been based not on an examination of Hamas’ actions, but on “factual imputations derived from the press and the…
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November 28, 2014 /
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You may have heard that the Zim shipping line has decided to discontinue sending its ships to California ports in the US. This is a major victory, but also a tactical retreat for Zim and the government of Israel. They appear to be terrified that ports around the world might block Israeli ships. Demonstrations and…
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