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Our friends at the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation just sent out the following video and action alert! Since Motorola is one of our Top Ten Brands to Boycott, we want to make sure our supporters take action!
One of Motorola / Verizon Wireless’s latest ads:
From the US Campaign:
Tell the Department of Energy to [...]
Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) has been gaining ground and achieving a number of successes recently… but the US is lagging behind.
That was the message of Omar Barghouti’s frank and motivational talk at San Francisco State University (SFSU). Those of us at BACEIA were very excited to co-sponsor his talk [...]
The U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, a national Washington D.C. based organization & coalition, has signaled major shifts in their BDS work over the past few years. The most recent one came in September 2009 at their 8th Annual National Organizers’ Conference.
From their conference report:
Delegates also voted to endorse the principle of extending [...]
The Trade Union Congress in the UK just passed a resolution committing its 6.5 million members to participating in and building a campaign of BDS against Israel. From their press release:
The motion additionally called for the TUC General Council to put pressure on the British government to end all arms trading with Israel and support [...]
There’s been a fair amount of buzz in the past couple of days about Canadian filmmaker John Greyson’s decision to pull his film Covered from the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in honor of the cultural boycott. Greyson’s action is in response to TIFF’s new City-to-City Spotlight program, this year focusing on Tel Aviv. Greyson [...]