Goodbye to MOTO Campaign headlined on Democracy Now

The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel launched a boycott in NYC of Motorolla in front of the company'scorporate office in Brooklyn on Monday, March 30. This short excerpt from Democracy Now! includes a statement by Ryvka Bar Zoharon on the Motorolla boycott. It is preceded by footage from Bil'in, Palestine showing an Israeli soldier shooting a demonstrator point blank across the separation fence. It is a proper juxtaposition, as Motorolla's Israeli subsidiary provides electronic surveillance technology that is a component of the militarized separation wall or fence. Here in Tompkins County, the Ithaca Alliance for Justice in the Middle East is considering how best to lauch the Motorolla boycott locally. And, we have good reason to do so. Bil'in is the site of a weekly demonstration against the separation wall. In 2007, video journalist Emad Bornat toured the US and Puerto Roco with Puerto Rican acttivist Tito Kayak . Emad, who had filmed Tito scaling an Israeli surveillance tower in Bil'in and unfurling a Palestinian flag, visited Ithaca on the tour where he presented his documentary work. When he is not documenting the struggle, he supports himself and his family by farming. Since his return to Bil'in, Emad was injured by a rubber bullet while videotaping the weekly protest against the wall in February of 2008. Then in November of 2008, the brakes and gears of his tractor failed and he collided into the barbed wire fence of the Israel's occupation wall that cuts his village land in two Here is the transcript of this segment from Democracy Now: Israeli Troops Shoot at West Bank Protesters In the occupied West Bank, Israeli troops fired tear gas and rubber bullets on Friday at a crowd of Palestinians protesting the construction of the separation wall in the town of Bilin. Reuters video showed an Israeli soldier shooting a Palestinian demonstrator with a rubber-coated bullet at point-blank range, injuring his leg. Palestinian legislator Mustafa Barghouti attended the demonstration and said the new Israeli government will further damage the lives of the Palestinians. Mustafa Barghouti : “The only thing that the new Israeli government is bringing is more settlement, more land confiscation, more discrimination, more apartheid and more building of this wall that is killing the lives of the Palestinians and destroying the option of peace based on two-state solution.” Campaign to Boycott Motorola Launched in New York The company Motorola is a target of a new boycott campaign organized by the group New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel. Organizer Ryvka Bar Zohar accused Motorola of supporting Israel’s military occupation. Ryvka Bar Zohar : “Motorola produces bomb fuses, communications devices, surveillance technology, that’s used directly by the Israeli military in its ongoing occupation of the Palestinian people.”

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Blip | March 31, 2009

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