Glossop Labour Club Management Committee has decided to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, an international movement dedicated to putting peaceful pressure on the state of Israel to end the occupation of Palestinian land and oppression of the Palestinian people. BDS is one of the key, peaceful, actions that we can take, as individuals and as organisations, in response to the genocide unfolding in Gaza and the escalating oppression of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
The main impact of this on the club’s activities identified so far has been to stop the sale of Coca Cola. Coca Cola appears on the BDS list because of their investment in the illegal settlement of Atarot in the occupied West Bank. As a replacement, we will be stocking Karma Cola, which is an organic Fairtrade product, with part of the proceeds going to cola growers’ families in Sierra Leone.
We will also stop selling Schweppes products (Schweppes is owned by Coca Cola).
I am sure you will join us in welcoming these changes to reflect our principles as a Democratic Socialist Club with Internationalism at our core.