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A Victory for the BDS Campaign
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Written by Wael Elasady   
Sunday, 05 April 2009

Motorola Sells Israel Bomb Division as National Boycott Campaign Advances

 Originally posted in The Palestine Telegraph

April 5, 2009 - The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and allied organizations participating in a national boycott campaign against Motorola welcomed news that Motorola Israel Ltd. has sold its Government Electronics Department, which made several products that enable Israel's military occupation of and human rights abuses against Palestinians.

The reported sale of the Motorola Israel department occurred just two days after a globally-coordinated day of action to promote campaigns of boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel and corporations that profit from its human rights abuses of Palestinians.

This day of action and the growing global BDS movement were inspired by the 2005 call from Palestinian civil society for BDS campaigns targeting Israel, similar to campaigns targeting South Africa's apartheid regime during the 1970s and 1980s.

In Brooklyn, the New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel (NYCBI) launched a city-wide boycott campaign against Motorola, and cell phones stores selling Motorola products were picketed in places such as Cambridge, MA and Santa Clara, CA. The protests called on Motorola and its fully owned subsidiary, Motorola Israel Ltd., to end their sales of bomb fuses, communication devices, and surveillance equipment to the Israeli military. Human rights activists argue that these technologies are used by the Israeli military to violate human rights and international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Human Rights Watch researchers found shrapnel with Motorola serial numbers on it at the site of bomb blasts after Israel's recent assault on the Gaza Strip, dubbed "Operation Cast Lead." For additional information about the case against Motorola, click here .


 

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Voice of Palestine Interview
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Written by Wael Elasady   
Wednesday, 25 March 2009

This show includes a live interview from Palestine with Wael Elasady, from the Popular Committee in Bilin. Wael spoke about the third annual Bilin conference that just ended, and the Israeli military's violent attack on the June 6th peaceful demo at the conclusion of the conference that resulted in the injury of an Italian judge.

 To listen to interview click here 

 

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Speech at Capitol Peace Rally
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Wednesday, 25 March 2009

Wael's speech on Palestine begins at approximitly 25 min into video.

On this sixth anniversary of the criminal invasion and occupation of Iraq, those who oppose this foreign policy gathered in Salem, Oregon, demonstrating to stop the wars at home and abroad, and also to keep the Oregon Guard home from these wars of Empire.

Exceprt from Portland Indie Media article: 

There has been an ongoing effort to pass legislation in Salem, HB 2556--which empowers the Governor to limit service of the Guard when a federal deployment is not based on a valid Congressional authorization, and a resolutions--HR 4--which calls on the Governor to withhold the Guard from deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan.

The bills are the result of work done by the national Bring the Guard Home--It's the Law! campaign, which emphasizes that current law disallows Governors to object to the "purpose, location, type or schedule" of a deployment, but does not address the question of whether the underlying authorizations are valid. HB 2556 is not specific to the Iraq or Afghan conflict, while HR 4 expresses the opinion that the 2002 Iraq Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) has expired because its limited conditions no longer apply, and the 2001 "War on Terror" AUMF is too broad as it delegates powers to the President to call up the Guard perpetually.

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