Petition to cancel contracts with security company G4S

Petition on Change.org by Liverpool friends of Palestine calling on Liverpool City Council to cancel their contracts with the security company G4S who are complicit with Israel's illegal actions in Gaza.

Dear Liverpool City Council,

We, the undersigned, would like to support the call made by Liverpool artists to the City Council regarding the use of G4S for security contracts in the city. The letter reads as follows:

We are writing to you as Liverpool artists – writers, actors, musicians and others – who have been involved in the artistic life of the city, some of us for many years.

The arrival of the Giants to the city has brought to a head a problem which some of us have been aware of for a long time. The contrast between the joy of the giants' celebration and the current appalling misery and carnage in Palestine was brought into sharp focus by the presence of numerous G4S security employees, marshalling the event. G4S is used by the Council for a number of different events, including the upcoming International Music Festival, and this needs to stop.

G4S is a serial abuser of human rights, supplying security systems to Israeli prisons where Palestinians, including children, are illegally detained and frequently tortured, and to checkpoints in the Apartheid Wall in the Occupied West Bank. Under intense pressure, G4S now says it will exit these contracts in 2017. We'd like them to get out now.

To read the full letter or sign the petition go here: change.org

Photos from the latest Gaza demo in Liverpool

Images of the demonstration and pickets outside Tescos, Marks and Spencers and other shops that took place in Liverpool on Sat 2nd August 2014 against the Israeli bombing of Gaza and UK companies involvement with Israel.

Photographs by Marty Saleh

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