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Solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners - join Twitter action today against G4S

(pic: Matthew Aslett docphot.wordpress.com)

British-Danish security company G4S (@G4S_UK) is running a "Twitter debate" today (12/6), 2-3 pm BST. G4S provides equipment to Israeli prisons and maintains a presence in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. G4S is thus complicit with Israel's human rights abuses against Palestinians and violations of international law.

Following the large demonstration outside the G4S shareholders meeting, this is an opportunity to send a strong message to G4S that its actions are under scrutiny and that we demand an immediate cessation of its activities in Israel with risk of escalating our BDS campaign against the company.

Here are some suggested tweets using the hashtag #policingdebate:

G4S (@G4S_UK) helps Israel violate international law by securing its illegal settlement enterprise http://tiny.cc/tperfw #policingdebate #stopg4s #bds

G4S (@G4S_UK) makes huge profits on the back of Palestinian suffering, boycott G4S http://tiny.cc/tperfw #policingdebate #stopg4s #bds

G4S (@G4S_UK) is helping sustain Israeli apartheid, a crime against humanity, end the complicity now! http://tiny.cc/tperfw #policingdebate #stopg4s #bds

G4S (@G4S_UK) profitting from Israeli prison system while Mahmoud Sarsak remains on hunger strike http://tiny.cc/tperfw #policingdebate #SaveFootballerSarsak

And some non-Palestine related ones:

Jimmy Mubenga died after being 'restrained' on a UK deportation flight by G4S (@G4S_UK) guards http://tiny.cc/tperfw #policingdebate

770 complaints were made about G4S (@G4S_UK) when they were running UK migration detention centres #policingdebate

G4S (@G4S_UK) exploits UK prisoners by hiring them on poverty and taking the profits #policingdebate

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