Nice hat. And good effort at what your group is doing. Gene
-----Original Message----- >From: Gar Lipow <[email protected]> >Sent: Feb 27, 2012 9:14 PM >To: [email protected], Progressive Economists List ><[email protected]> >Subject: [Pen-l] SLAPP (Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation) >suit against Olympia Co-op boycott of Israel dismissed > >The food co-op in my little hick (if granola) town joined the Boycott, >Divest and Sanction movement to oppose Israeli Apartheid. A minority >of co-op members, after being roundly defeated in board elections, >decided to use the courts to punish the co-op. At the time of the >election they threatened the co-op: if you don't rescind the boycott >you will face a "burdensome and expensive legal process". And with the >help of StandWithUs, and Israeli funded hate group that opposes >Palestinian rights they did indeed file a lawsuit which has now been >dismissed (though undoubtedly there will be an appeal). > To read more about the lawsuit and its dismissal: > http://www.theolympian.com/2012/02/27/2007774/judge-tosses-lawsuit-that-sought.html >short Url: http://bit.ly/yWNknc >To read more about role of Israel in this: >http://www.alternet.org/story/154256/is_israeli_government_involved_in_harassment_lawsuit_against_washington_food_cooperative_?page=entire >Short url: http://bit.ly/wBulCE >To read more about olympia BDS >http://www.olympiabds.org/ > >A picture of me at a recent BDS demonstration. (I don't know why the >photographer isolated me from the other participants. It was fairly >well attended for an early morning demo before a court hearing) >https://twitter.com/#!/tescdivest/status/172717828858843136/photo/1/large >short url: http://bit.ly/wtiOPT > >Anyway, at this point the filers of the lawsuit have incurred a >liability of $50,000 penalty plus legal costs for defending against >their now dismissed suit. Some on this list suggested that BDS was not >worth the effort, but the Israeli consulate and the Israeli funded >hate group StandWithUs certainly seems to think it worth some effort >to oppose. > > > > >-- >Facebook: Gar Lipow Twitter: GarLipow >Solving the Climate Crisis web page: SolvingTheClimateCrisis.com >Grist Blog: http://grist.org/author/gar-lipow/ >Online technical reference: http://www.nohairshirts.com >_______________________________________________ >pen-l mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
