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Here are some videos from Vancouver’s Mountain Equipment Co-op event.
Below, the CIC’s Dan Schloss speaks about MECs ethical sourcing policy and opposition to boycotting Israel:
In this video, Vancouver writer Jonathon Narvey shows his support by purchasing an MEC membership:
Here is the press release about the successful BUYcott Action in support of Mountain Equipment Co-op:
BUYcott in support of Mountain Equipment Co-Op ethical sourcing policy and its Israeli products held in cities across Canada
VANCOUVER, Nov. 29 /CNW/ – BUYcott activities took place today on-line and at Mountain Equipment Co-Op (MEC) stores in cities across Canada. This BUYcott has resulted in significant sales of merchandise – Israeli and otherwise – from MEC. The BUYcott was organized in response to a national picket and threat to boycott MEC stores unless MEC ceases doing business with Israel. An earlier attempt to force MEC to boycott Israeli goods was defeated by MEC members at their annual general meeting last spring.
BUYcott Israel activists were out in large numbers in cities across Canada today, and we look forward to sharing video and photographs of these events on our website in the following days.
“This clearly demonstrates that the Canadian public supports MEC’s ethical sourcing policy and rejects efforts to politicize the activities of one of Canada’s most socially conscious merchandisers,” said Michael Elterman, Chair of the Canada-Israel Committee’s Pacific Region.
The BUYcott initiative, which is spreading worldwide, was launched earlier this year in Canada by a group of organizations that aim to neutralize calls to boycott Israel by making them counterproductive.
Added Elterman, “Calls to boycott will thus lead to greater sales of Israeli products and more favourable exposure for Israel. Israeli wines, cultural products, and the Ahava line have all been successfully BUYcotted over the past year.”
BUYcott groups have already been created in several American cities, as well as in England, and we expect that other communities will follow.
Here’s a very supportive editorial published in the Nov. 28 Calgary Herald:
Ignore boycott, it’s time to BUYcott Israel
With the Aryan Guard in Calgary disbanding, it’s good riddance to one bunch of anti-Semites. Now, if only another bunch would disperse, as well. The misguided members of this particular group plan to picket at Mountain Equipment Co-op stores today to protest the retailer’s selling of Israeli-made products. MEC management should ignore them and continue selling made-in-Israel goods. Anyone who wants to boycott merchandise made in a democracy because of the despicable belief that this democracy has no right to defend itself against attacks by terrorists determined to wipe it out should be dismissed with the contempt merited.
Israel is the only country in the world that suffers condemnation for fighting back when attacked–and that bespeaks loudly of anti-Semitism, for no other reason is discernible.
Sunday, a counter-protest is taking place–it’s called BUYcott Israel, and its purpose is to urge people to go to MEC and specifically purchase Israeli products there, to show their support for Israel and for MEC’s sensible refusal to cave in to the wrong-headed protesters. The pressure must be kept up against those who would boycott Israel.
Aidez-nous à vaincre la guerre de propagande mondiale contre Israël
OÙ:
Dimanche, le 29 novembre 2009
12h à 16h
QUAND:
8989, boulevard de l’Acadie
Une fois de plus, des organisations anti-israéliennes tentent de politiser la vente de produits israéliens par MEC et de renverser la politique rigoureuse d’approvisionnement de la co-op.
Ces groupes vont faire le piquet devant plusieurs magasins MEC le 28 novembre prochain.
Affichez votre soutien à la politique d’approvisionnement éthique de MEC et exprimez votre opposition au boycott en participant au BUYcott national de produits israéliens vendus par MEC ce dimanche 29 novembre.
Il vous faut URGEMMENT devenir membre de MEC en magasinant avec nous le 29 novembre ou en ligne avant le 19 décembre 2009.
Aidez-nous à vaincre cette tentative manifeste de politiser l’un des détaillants les plus éthiques au Canada.
Aidez-nous à vaincre la guerre de propagande contre Israël.
Our BUYcott MEC campaign is getting some attention from bloggers and the Jewish press:
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