[act-ma] Fwd: reminder: Global day of action: Protest Puma, Saturday February 12 @ 1 PM -3 PM

Charlie Welch cwelch at tecschange.org
Fri Feb 11 20:31:42 PST 2022


Marilyn Frankenstein <Marilyn.Frankenstein at umb.edu> writes

Please join us! Last time we shut the store down, let’s try to do that 
again! Details below.


Dear All:

BDS Boston is turning out*this Saturday February 12th at 1:00pm*at 
Assembly Mall, 341 Artisan Way in Somerville to protestPUMA's 
shamefulsponsorship 
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the Israeli Football Association. Please share the attached in your 
groups and networks.

The international campaign to Boycott Puma has called for February 12 as 
a Global Day of Action. Please join us!


More than 200 Palestinian sports clubs 
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and Palestinian civil society broadly are DEMANDING that PUMA terminate 
their 4-year agreement 
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with the Israeli Football Association (IFA). *Meanwhile, PUMA just 
opened their new North American Corporate Headquarters in the Boston 
suburb of Somerville. *You may have spotted their giant logo 
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over I-93. PUMA views their move to Somerville as an investment in the 
company's "visibility" 
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in the Boston area. So let's make sure PUMA gets some BAD visibility 
here until they stop whitewashing apartheid-Israel's crimes.

*We have the power to make business with apartheid-Israel a liability 
forPUMA, and forcePUMAto#DropTheIFA 
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us Saturday at 1pm toSHUT PUMA DOWN 
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Hope to see you there,

Marilyn



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