Sunday, December 5, 2010

Flash Mob: Boycott Motorola - We don't want your dirty phones 2010

Update: December 28, 2010
First Video which was replaced earlier is banned by Youtube see the second video
Update: December 18
I have replaced the original post after discovering that the video was listed as private by the original poster of the video on YouTube. It is done often for reasons I can only guess at.

STL-PSC Flash Mob: Boycott Israeli Apartheid in Palestine!:

"STLPSCorg | December 13, 2010

On December 4th, 2010, more than forty members and friends of the St Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee gathered at Best Buy and AT&T for a flash mob urging holiday shoppers to Boycott Israeli Apartheid and Hang Up on Motorola!

Visit our website and learn more about the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine: http://www.stl-psc.org/



Hang Up on Motorola
Source: End The Occupation
Join thousands of other human rights advocates demanding accountability from Motorola for its support of Israeli human rights violations. There are several ways that Motorola and their wholy owned subsidiary, Motorola-Israel, profit directly from violations of international law:
  • Motorola has the exclusive contract to provide the Israeli military with encrypted mobile phone technology. This means that every Israeli boarder guard manning a checkpoint inside of Palestinian territory and every Israeli soldier committing war crimes in the assault on the Gaza Strip takes their orders through a Motorola device.

  • Motorola "virtual fences" and surveillance systems are used at dozens of illegal Israeli settlements built on Palestinian land. These Jewish-only settlements are a potent symbol Israeli apartheid and are illegal under several international laws, including the 4th Geneva Convention. Settlements use high-tech Motorola equipment to ghettoize Palestinian communities as confiscate their land.

  • Motorola also has close ties with Aeronautics Defense Systems (ADS), which makes drone aircraft that the Israeli military used during Operation Cast Lead (the most recent assault on the Gaza Strip). Last April Motorola sold their bomb fuze division to ADS, just after Human Rights Watch reported finding debris from Motorola bomb components in the rubble of civilian buildings in the Gaza Strip.


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BDS Flash Mob: Boycott Israeli Apartheid in Palestine!: "stlpsc1948 | December 20, 2010 | 44 likes, 5 dislikes

Motorola partner WMG removed this video after it received more than 35,000 hits in its first week (launch date: December 13th, 2010). Let's keep up the pressure and show Motorola that our calls to boycott occupation and apartheid won't be silenced. Please pass this on!

Background: In early December, more than forty members and friends of the St Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee (STL-PSC) gathered at Best Buy and AT&T for a flash mob urging holiday shoppers to Boycott Israeli Apartheid and Hang Up on Motorola!

One of the participants was arrested as he was attempting to leave the parking lot. Call the police in North St Louis and you're lucky if someone shows up, but disrupt 3 minutes of Christmas shopping and you are busted!

For more information on STL-PSC, visit www.stl-psc.org



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