Get involved locally

Interested in taking up the #volvoClawsOffPalestine campaign in your city?

Options for Local Organizing
Against Volvo Group

1.DIVESTMENTS

  • City Councils: Push your municipality to divest pension funds or procurement contracts from Volvo Group due to its complicity in Israel’s war crimes and genocide in Gaza. If your city has an ethical investment policy, use it to demand divestment from Volvo.

  • Institutions: Pressure universities, religious institutions, and retirement systems to divest from Volvo shares and funds.

  • Human Rights Procurement Policies: Mobilize your city council, union, or association to pass resolutions preventing contracts with companies complicit in human rights violations — starting with Volvo.

  • Organize campaigns to end contracts with Volvo at municipal, university, or institutional level — including buses, trucks, and infrastructure deals.

  • Demand cancellation of research collaborations, sponsorships, and supplier agreements with Volvo.

  • Collect signatures and pledges from students, workers, or community members refusing participation in Volvo-related partnerships.

2. CUT THE CONTRACTS

3. TRADE UNIONS & WORKERS

  • Union motions: Pass resolutions committing the union to support an arms embargo and to end servicing or procurement of Volvo Group fleets linked to violations.

  • Workplace action: Workers in transport, construction, or logistics can organize to refuse servicing or supplying Volvo vehicles tied to war crimes.

  • Solidarity network: Share winning motions, language, and grievance templates across locals.

  • Organize protests and pickets outside Volvo dealerships, service centers, or offices.

  • Flyers/ Banner drops / projections exposing Volvo Group’s role in Gaza and the occupation

  • Local wins: Push your municipality/uni to suspend Volvo Group purchases; celebrate & publish each win.

  • Contact floods: Flood Volvo with calls, emails, and social media pressure demanding they cut ties with Israel’s apartheid regime.

4. DIRECT ACTION & COMMUNITY PRESSURE

5. CULTURAL & SPORTS BOYCOTT

  • Pressure cultural institutions, festivals, and sports clubs to drop Volvo as a sponsor.

  • Demand that universities, events, and museums reject Volvo funding or grants.

  • Encourage artists, musicians, and writers to publicly refuse Volvo sponsorship until the company ends its complicity.