{"id":847,"date":"2016-10-29T22:38:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T21:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?p=847"},"modified":"2017-03-08T13:48:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T13:48:36","slug":"help-us-hurry-the-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?p=847","title":{"rendered":"Help us hurry the council&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-849\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/boycott.jpg\" alt=\"boycott israel\" width=\"280\" height=\"180\" \/>Two years ago, Sheffield PSC and others lobbied the council vigorously, concerned that the council persisted in purchasing good and services from organisations complicit in the occupation and denial of basic human rights to Palestinians<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-850 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/global-ethics-logo-249x300.png\" alt=\"global-ethics-logo\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/global-ethics-logo-249x300.png 249w, https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/global-ethics-logo.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As a result, Sheffield City Council voted unanimously to adopt an Ethical Procurement policy. Such a policy tries to ensure that the best, most trustworthy companies are used to provide local services.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But, after two years, Sheffield still does not have an Ethical Procurement Policy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please add your name to this petition saying two years is long enough to carry out what the Council voted to do.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>[emailpetition id=&#8221;2&#8243;] <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, Sheffield PSC and others lobbied the council vigorously, concerned that the council persisted in purchasing good and services from organisations complicit in the occupation and denial of basic human rights to Palestinians As a result, Sheffield City Council voted unanimously to adopt an Ethical Procurement policy. Such a policy tries to ensure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?p=847\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Help us hurry the council&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}