Boycott Max Brenner Chocolates

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Boycott Max Brenner Chocolates
Topic Started: Feb 17 2009, 06:13 AM (384 Views)
Liberate Palestine	Feb 17 2009, 06:13 AM Post #1
Posts: 64 Group: Members Member #473 Joined: Dec 30, 2008 Gender Undisclosed	Australian activists launch campaign targeting Max Brenner Chocolates Palestine solidarity activists in Sydney have launched a campaign targeting Max Brenner Chocolates, a 100% Israeli-owned company belonging to the Strauss Group, as part of the growing international boycott Israel movement. The Strauss Group is the second-largest Israeli food and beverage company. On the “corporate responsibility” section of its website, the Strauss Group emphasises the support it gives to the Israeli killing machine. Highlighting that it wants to “sweeten their special moment” the Strauss Group touts that, for more than 30 years, it has supported the Golani reconnaissance platoon, renowned for its murderous assaults on Palestinian civilians. During Israel’s recent massacre in Gaza, a Ha’aretz article reported that the Golani platoon operated “in the sector in which the [Israel Defence Force] has seen the toughest battles with Hamas, the eastern part of Gaza City”. According to the website of Adalah-NY, the Coalition for Justice in the Middle East, Golani has also been involved in previous military operations in Gaza, in the massacres in the Jenin and Tul Karm refugee camps and the siege on Yasser Arafat’s Muqata compound in Ramallah. It was also directly involved in the 2006 invasion of Lebanon. Moreover, Adalah-NY reports that in November 2008, in a widely disseminated video, “members of the Golani Brigade filmed themselves forcing a captive, blindfolded Palestinian to sing humiliating songs, some of a sexual nature, and some about the Golani Brigade”. For these reasons and more, the activists from the boycott working group of the Gaza Defence Committee are calling on people to boycott Max Brenner. Weekly pickets of Max Brenner are being organised every Thursday afternoon, outside its city and Parramatta stores. The working group is also taking the boycott case to unions and universities in order to help expand the growing global movement to target apartheid Israeli, just as apartheid South Africa was targeted. Adalah-NY consumer boycott flyer



gingerwitch28	Apr 19 2009, 11:20 AM Post #2
twenty-first century ennui Posts: 1,684 Group: Members Member #589 Joined: Apr 18, 2009 Gender Female Religious Views Atheist Political View Social Democracy	Yeah, I've heard about this. I've spread the word, but the only person I know who goes to Max Brenner is a selfish cow.



Sayf Udeen Ismaeel	Apr 19 2009, 11:32 AM Post #3
Icon by meagan_chelsea @ LJ Posts: 7,579 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: May 2, 2008 Gender Male Religious Views Muslim Political View All over the shop.	I've been to Max Brenner once. It was December last year and we only had tea after we found out the chocolate has haram [Islamically prohibited] ingredients anyways.



Aezvina	Sep 19 2009, 09:55 AM Post #4
Posts: 80 Group: Members Member #77 Joined: Jun 20, 2008 Gender Female Religious Views Muslim Political View Uneducated Socialist	If you're going to eat chocolate, think before you eat; Back in 2002, almost 200 years after the Dutch and English signed a treaty to abolish the slave trade, 139 years after the Dutch abolished slavery (1863) and 137 years after the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the US (1865), Teun van de Keuken, a TV journalist from Keuringsdienst van Waarde (Consumer Intelligence Agency, CIA), a popular Dutch TV program that explores the different ways in which consumers are mislead by advertisers, read an article on abuses in the chocolate industry. According to the article, hundreds of thousands of children are forced to work on cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast, which is where most cocoa comes from. They receive no pay for their labor and are unable to leave the plantations. According to the UN, that is slavery. Teun decided to do some research and found out that most chocolate is a mix of cocoa from different countries and that most chocolate contains cocoa from Ivory Coast. In other words, most of the chocolate sold by your local supermarket contains cocoa produced by slaves. Slavery is a criminal offense, in Holland, but also in Ivory Coast. Slavery is also defined as a crime against humanity, punishable by law, in an endless list of international treaties that have been signed by nations around the world, including Holland and Ivory Coast. It is also a criminal offense to purchase articles that are the product of illegal activities. Like buying a stolen bicycle, buying the products of slavery is a crime. In Holland, this crime falls into the same category as receiving stolen goods and is punishable by up to six years in prison. http://www.chocolonely.nl/index.php?page=1_3 (the chocolate they make is kosher and suitable for vegetarians) I'll shut up before I sound like a TV add.



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