Veolia built the light rail system that connects East Jerusalem colonies to West Jerusalem. Here’s a great boycott anthem (set to the Kinks tune Victoria) from Dave Lippmann:
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I wonder if it would help if I started ending all my comments with Israelo delenda est? You know, I think it would. It lends them a certain watchamacallit, or “cachet”. It has sparkle, snap, and is just like Mother makes. Anyway, it couldn’t hurt.
The video also showed the Veolia garbage trucks that are used to haul untreated settlement garbage to be dumped on Palestinian villages on the WB.
Veolia pulled a fast one last year for the benefit of the Saudis that were feeling the BDS heat. It sold its shares in the company building the Jerusalem Light Rail to Israel’s Egged Bus Company to show that it no longer has any interest in the building of the apartheid rail line, and then turned around and signed a management contract with Egged to complete the line and manage it. So on paper, Veolia no longer had the 5% ownership in the line and was no longer building it.
instead of “…… delenda est”,
i prefer another ceterum censeo: …..occupationem esse finiendam!
This year, Veolia pulled another of its ownership transfer stunts, EI talked about it:
“The French corporation Veolia says it has sold the Tovlan garbage dump in the Jordan Valley to the nearby Israeli settlement of Masua. But the company is still involved in the dump as a supervisor and consultant. On its official website, Veolia Australia gives some details of the sale in a comment to the blog Illegal Dumping of Waste:
Veolia / TMM (a local subsidiary of Veolia Environmental Services) sold to Masua Village its entire rights in the Tovlan landfill on June 26, 2011. As a consequence, we are no longer the registered owner of the site. In order to comply with applicable laws as well as the sale agreement, TMM will act as an active supervisor and consultant for a transitory period to ensure the fulfillment of environmental protection standards and applicable law. These services will be provided until Masuaa is capable of independently undertaking all such obligations in full itself. At the end of this transitory period, TMM will be released from any obligations regarding the landfill operation and will no longer have any control whatsoever over the operation of the site.
The Tovlan landfill serves mainly the needs of the Israeli population in Israel and in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Moreover, three Veolia subsidiaries in Israel hold permits to transfer waste from Israel to the Tovlan landfill – including TMM – according to the occupation watchdog, Who Profits.
International law prohibits Israel from using occupied land for the sole benefit of its own civilian population. In Resolution 63/201 of 28 January 2009, the UN General Assembly called on Israel to cease the dumping of all kinds of waste materials on occupied Palestinian land.”
link to electronicintifada.net
In Focus: Piracy of the Palestinian history
link to youtube.com
Veolia owns the following municipal water systems in the USA: (Source: Blue Gold: World Water Wars, available for free via google search)
Veolia was called Vivendi (privatized Paris water since the time of Napoleon-Rothschild owned-returned to public hands in 2009 for first time in over 200 years)
Veolia has privatized the municipal water supply of the following US cities.
Atlanta GA
Chicago IL
New Orleans LA
Grand Canyon AZ
Tampa FL
That means it can rob the water table to sell water in bottles on the open market, in addition to charging more than the municipality would for public supply and with no controls for safety, as Atlanta found out.
P.S. NYC’s water supply is now privatized. It’s owned by the transnational co. Suez.
MRW, Veolia has hundreds of contracts and is active in almost every state of the US.
If you are interested, here’s a full list of Veolia’s contracts listed by States alphabetically:
link to globalexchange.org
Further to MRW’s USA List, it should be noted that in the UK, Veolia is quite literally a household name.
Millions of people have their garbage collected by the company, which has contracts with lots of local governments. Some of the representatives who sit on the committees overseeing these contracts are quite sympathetic to Palestinian rights. If enough Britons wrote to their local authorities complaining about Veolia’s record in Palestine, it might seriously threaten some of their UK contracts.
Upsidedownism, the UK is already very active on Veolia’s case. Here’s a few of the BDS victories there and elsewhere, going through them is fun reading:
February 2011 Tower Hamlets Borough (London) passed a motion to review all contracts with Veolia, not to place any more contracts with the company and to terminate any relationship with Veolia.
Late 2010-2011 : Veolia has lost waste management contracts with Edinburgh, Richmond, Portsmouth, Winchester and East Hants, South London Waste Management and London Borough of Ealing after vigorous local campaigns for exclusion.
After a successful local campaign, Veolia Environmental Services lost the contract for waste management with Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council in the west Midlands.
Oct 2010: Cork City Council passed a motion (18:1) not to renew any further contracts with Veolia in light of Veolia’s collaboration with the apartheid Israeli regime.
June 2010: Donegal County Council passed a motion not to renew any further contracts with Veolia in light of Veolia’s collaboration with the apartheid Israeli regime.
May 2010: Castlebar Town Council unanimously backed a motion urging the Town Manager not to sign any new or renew any existing contracts with Veolia while the company supports Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank.
June 2010: Swansea City Council passed a resolution to exclude Veolia from all future contracts.Swansea is the second largest city inWales and the first council inUK to pass such a resolution.
May 2010: Dublin City Council, the first (European capital to do so) passed a motion not to renew any further contracts with Veolia as a result of the operations in occupiedPalestine.
July 2009: Veolia lose an Australian desalination contract worth $3.5B
June 2009: Reports indicate that due to international pressure Veolia is withdrawing from the light rail project however this has not been confirmed. Alstom remains involved in the project. link to haaretz.com
June 2009: The city of Melbourne,Australia stripped Connex of their contract to run Melbourne’s trams and Hong Kong’s MTR.
The city of Tehran announces that Veolia will be excluded from bidding for key contracts in the city’s transportation services.
April 2009: GalwayCity Council voted not to renew or enter into any new contract’s with Veolia as a result of the operations in occupiedPalestine.
A French Court agreed to hear the case that was launched against Veolia and Alstom by Association France-Palestine Solidarité and the PLO in 2007. This case could set precedence for taking legal actions against corporations in their home countries for international law violations they commit inPalestine.
AFPS Press Release link to france-palestine.org
Veolia loses a contact worth 750 million Euros in Bordeaux, France.
March 2009: The Swedish National Pension fund divested from Alstom as the reported human rights abuses regarding the company’s participation in a railway project in Jerusalem made it not suitable for pension funds investments.
February 2009:SligoCounty Council passed a motion not to renew any further contracts with Veolia as a result of the operations in occupiedPalestine.
January 2009: Veolia loses 4.5 billion dollar contract to run the subway in Stockholm, Sweden. link to bdsmovement.net
November 2006: ASN, a Dutch bank, breaks off financial relations with Veolia “Due to the direct nature of Veolia’s involvement, we are of the opinion that Veolia’s activities inJerusalem are in conflict with UN Resolutions. Therefore, on this current information Veolia will be removed from our investment universe.”
Dutch bank divests holdings in J’lem light rail, cites settlements, Haaretz published December 2006, link to haaretz.com
Principled Dutch bank ends relations with Veolia , Electronic Intifada, November 2006 Adri Nieuwhof link to electronicintifada.net
August 2006: Irish train drivers forces Veolia to cancel plans to train Israeli drivers and engineers in Ireland. They were to be trained on the Dublin Luas which is nearly identical to the one being constructed in Jerusalem. link to labournet.net
Connex Ireland forced to cancel contract with Occupation Worldwide Activism, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign,Aug 19, 2006 link to stopthewall.org
link to ipsc.ie