Palestinian footballer Mahmoud Sarsak will be speaking at the Pakistan Community Centre in Willesden Green on Thursday to share his experiences with local people, as Brent Council sticks to its decision to refuse to exclude Veolia, a company that aids illegal occupation of Palestine, from a lucrative contract worth more than £250m over 16 years.
Sarsak lost half his body weight in a hunger strike that lasted 92 days fighting for human rights in his homeland. His courage and determination should bring it home to Brent Council, a council with a noble record of campaigning against apartheid South Africa decades ago, that they too should make a stand.
The people of Brent do not want their taxes and Council Tax to be used to provide profits to a company that also profits from illegal abuses of human rights.
