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On July 27th, the National Building Museum announced that Caterpillar Inc. is this year’s recipient of the prestigious Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction Technology.
We, the undersigned organizations, strongly believe that Caterpillar’s business practices do not align with the spirit of the Henry C. Turner Prize and are in direct conflict with the National Building Museum’s principles. We urge the National Building Museum and the Henry C. Turner Prize jury to rescind designation of this award to Caterpillar Inc. and identify an alternative nominee whose values and principles are maintained at the standard expected of a Turner Prize recipient.
Caterpillar Inc. has a long history of complicity in extensive human rights abuses and violations of international law within the Occupied Palestinian Territory. For decades, Caterpillar equipment has been used to demolish thousands of Palestinian homes, leaving more than 50,000 civilians displaced. Palestinian and international civilians have been killed and injured in such demolitions. Caterpillar machinery is instrumental in construction of Israel’s illegal separation-annexation wall, in destruction of Palestinian olive groves and farmland, and in extensive construction of Israeli settlements that illegally expropriate Palestinian land.
Caterpillar long has been on notice about the pattern of Israeli human rights violations committed with its equipment, yet it continues to sell to the Israeli government, putting corporate profit before human rights.
Please rescind designation of the Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction Technology to Caterpillar Inc. and to identify an alternative nominee whose values and principles are maintained at the standard expected of a Turner Prize recipient.
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153 Endorsing Organizations and the list is growing…
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- Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice
- Jewish Voice for Peace
- U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
- Code Pink
- Washington Interfaith Alliance for Middle East Peace
- Center for Constitutional Rights
- United for Peace and Justice
- The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)-USA
- Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)
- Fellowship of Reconciliation USA
- National Lawyers Guild Free Palestine Subcommittee
- National Lawyers Guild International Committee
- US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
- Institute for Policy Studies, NI Project
- Friends Of Sabeel-North America
- Free Gaza Movement
- Rebuilding Alliance
- Interfaith Peace-Builders
- International Solidarity Movement – USA
- Loretto Community Investment Committee
- Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights
- American Muslims for Palestine
- If Americans Knew
- Council for the National Interest
- Americans Committed to Justice and Truth-ACJT
- Artists Against Apartheid
- Global Exchange
- Wisconsin Middle East Lobby Group, Germantown, Wisconsin
- Friends of Palestine, Germantown, Wisconsin
- Trickle Up Films, Olympia, Washington
- Al-Nakba Awareness Project, Eugene, Oregon
- People for Justice in Palestine, Iowa City, Iowa
- Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, Madison, Wisconsin
- Friends of Palestine, San Rafael, California
- Olympia YAYA, Olympia, Washington
- Jews Say No!, New York, New York
- Olympia Jewish Voice for Peace, Olympia, Washington
- Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace, Olympia, Washington
- Friends of Palestine, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Alliance for Justice in the Middle East, Harvard University
- TESC Divest, Evergreen State College
- Peace Action, Portland, Maine
- Youngstown Coalition for Peace in the Middle East, Youngstown, Ohio
- Holy Cross Melkite-Greek Catholic Church, Placentia, California
- Youngstown Coalition for Peace in the Middle East
- Denver BDS, Denver, Colorado
- Bay Area Women In Black, California
- Women In Black, Idyllwild, California
- Women In Black, Union Square, New York, New York
- Women in Black, Berkeley, California
- Utahns For a Just Peace in the Holy Land
- Americans Committed To Justice and Truth, Dufur, Oregon
- Our Developing World, Saratoga, California
- California Divestment Initiative, Chico CA Chapter
- Israel Divestment Campaign – California
- Committee for Palestinian Rights, Howard County, Maryland
- Radio Free Maine, Augusta, Maine
- North Alabama Peace Network, Huntsville, Alabama
- CNY Working for a Just Peace in Palestine and Israel, Cazenovia, New York
- Progressive Democrats of America, Chapter Chair, Mercer County, New Jersey
- Vancouver For Peace, Vancouver, Washington
- Labor for Palestine- New York City Labor Against the War, New York
- Move to Amend, Olympia, Washington
- VFP #109 Rachel Corrie Chapter, Olympia, Washington
- Justice First Foundation, Inc., West Kingston, Rhode Island
- Peace Action, Montgomery, Maryland
- WESPAC Foundation, White Plains, New York
- National Lawyers Guild, Michigan Chapter
- Citizen of the World, Cummington, Maine
- Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA), New York, New York
- Students Confronting Apartheid by Israel at Stanford
- Students for Justice in Palestine American University
- Siege Busters Working Group, Brooklyn, New York
- Al-Awda New York: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
- Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, Boise Chapter, Idaho
- World Peace Society, Holualoa, Hawaii
- MidEast: JustPeace, Cedar, Michigan
- Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR)
- Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Palestine Solidarity Committee, Seattle, Washington
- Coalition for Peace With Justice, North Carolina
- Peace for Palestine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights (BCPR), Massachusetts
- Seattle Mideast Awareness Committee (Sea-MAC), Seattle, Washington
- Olympia BDS, Washington
- Palestine Action Group, Corvallis, Oregon
- Kalamazoo Nonviolent Opponents of War, Michigan
- Chicago Faith Coalition on Middle East Policy, Illinois
- American Association for Palestinian Equal Rights, Nashville, Tennessee
- American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee-ADC, Chicago, Illinois
- Beacon Presbyterian Fellowship, Oakland, California
- Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, New York, New York
- Free Palestine Network, Berkeley California
- Carlisle Peace College, Sandy Spring, Maryland
- Chico Palestine Action Group, California
- Christians for Peace and Justice in the Middle East, Indianapolis, Indiana
- Citizens for Justice in the Middle East, Fairway, Kansas
- Committee for Palestinian Rights, Columbia, Maryland
- Friends of Sabeel-Colorado, Littleton, Colorado
- Tikkun, Chicago, Illinois
- Holy Cross Melkite-Greek Catholic Church, Placentia, California
- Indigenous Youth Sovereignty Project, Denver, Colorado
- Inter-faith Community for Palestinian Rights, Austin, Texas
- International Solidarity Movement, Northern California
- Jewish Voice for Peace, Denver, Colorado
- Jewish Voice for Peace, Portland, Oregon
- Jewish Voice for Peace, Los Angeles, California
- Jewish Voice for Peace, Chicago, Illinois
- LA Jews for Peace, Los Angeles, California
- Manos de Cristo Fellowship Church of the Brethren, South Bend,Indiana
- Maui Peace Action, Pukalani, Hawaii
- Palestine Justice Network, Brooklyn,New York
- People for Justice in Palestine, Iowa City, Iowa
- Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains, Topanga, California
- United Methodists’ Holy Land Task Force, Culver City, California
- Veterans for Peace, Crestline Cahpter, California
- Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine DeRicci, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania
- CNY Working for a Just Peace in Palestine & Israel, New York
- Corvallis-Albany Friends of Middle East Peace, Oregon
- Committee to Defend Palestinian Human Rights, Bridgton, Maine
- Palestine Solidarity Committee, Seattle, Washington
- Palestine Justice Network, Beit Sahour, Bethlehem
- Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People, Beit Sahour, Bethlehem
- Machsom Watch, Jerusalem
- Alternative Information Center (AIC), Jerusalem
- Arab Educational Institute, Jerusalem
- New Profile, Herzlia, Israel
- Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within, Israel
- Canada Palestine Association
- EuroPalestine, Paris, France
- Mouvement Citoyen Palestine, Bruxelles, Belgium
- EGALITE, Bruxelles, Belgium
- Association Belgo-Palestinienne, Bruxelles, Belgium
- Bristol Palestine Solidairty Campaign, United Kingdom
- Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods, London, England
- Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Dublin, Ireland
- Camp Micah: Leadership for Peace and Justice, Kitchener, Ontario
- Not In Our Name. Jews Opposing Zionism, Toronto, Ontario
- Independent Jewish Voices, Montreal, Quebec
- Centro Pace Rachel Corrie – Ovada, Italy
- Stop Agrexco Roman Committee, Rome, Italy
- Justice for Palestine Matters, Sydney, Australia
- Social Justice Network, Sydney, Australia
- Australian Friends of Palestine, Kingswood, Australia
- Women In Black, Strasbourg, Alsace, France
- Women In Black, Sydney, Australia
- Women In Black, Vienna, Austria
- Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), Bangkok, Thailand
- Red Solidaria contra la Ocupación de Palestina – RESCOP, Madrid, Spain
- BDS-Galiza, A Merca-Ourense, Galiza (Spain)
- Free Palestine, Zurich, Switzerland
- Educators for Peace and Justice, Toronto, Ontario
- Comité de Solidaridad con la Causa Arabe (CSCA), Madrid, Spain
Urge Your Members to Sign Our Petition
Thank you for joining the Rachel Corrie Foundation, Jewish Voice for Peace, the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, Code Pink, and the Washington Interfaith Alliance for Middle East Peace in this effort to call attention to the human rights abuses committed with Caterpillar equipment in Palestine. Please encourage individual members of your organization to sign our petition. Also share the Call to Action!
The National Building Museum will host a Henry C. Turner Prize event honoring Caterpillar Inc. on September 14th. Your support and that of your members will help us reach our goal of 10,000 individual signatures and hundreds of organizations telling the museum it must change course and not award the Turner Prize to Caterpillar Inc. We will deliver the petition to the National Building Museum the week of September 5th.
For More Background Information on Caterpillar Inc’s Complicity in Human Rights Abuses Click Here.
