Cindy’s daughter, Rachel Corrie, was killed by a Caterpillar bulldozer while protesting against house demolitions in Occupied Palestine two years ago.
As politicians pound the doorsteps looking for votes, activists from War on Want, PSC, ISM and Jews for Justice for Palestinians trod the shoppers paradise of Oxford Street asking customers to vote with their feet. Store managers of Clarks, River Island, Debenhams, Schuh and Barratts were asked to use the International Day of Action against Caterpillar to make a stand against corporate complicity in human rights violations by de-listing Caterpillar products.
A
report released by War on Want, accuses Caterpillar of complicity in the destruction of thousands of homes in the Occupied Territories, as well as construction of the illegal Separation Wall being built by the Israeli government.
War on Want Campaigns Officer Nick Dearden said “Caterpillar’s Chief Executive is fully aware of the uses his bulldozers are put to, yet he still claims that his company is ‘doing well by doing good around the world’. We think that Britain’s consumers have a right to know about the real Caterpillar, and believe they’d prefer their boots without blood on them.”
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here to see a response from John Lewis regarding Caterpillar.
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The story was first covered by the Independent newspaper
here
