Today, on the Global Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) Action Day, we are proud to announce that our Hang Up On Motorola campaign has grown by leaps and bounds - with almost 300 supporters organizing the campaign locally from Bellingham, WA to Boston, MA and West Palm Beach, FL to Warroad, MN. We plan to build on this momentum by organizing a public presence outside of Motorola's upcoming shareholder meeting and by announcing the launch of our Hang Up On Motorola video contest!
Celebrate Global BDS Action Day by joining us in
Hanging Up On Motorola!
1) Enter a Video in Our Spoof Moto Contest
Click here to submit your 30 second - 2 minute video.
The rules are simple!
Your video should spoof a Motorola advertisement, changing the message from Moto's usual sleek, sexy, sophisticated image to a more accurate account of Moto's support for occupation and apartheid in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Click here to learn more about the apartheid situation in the Occupied Territories and click here to view some Motorola commercials to spoof. Read the official contest rules by clicking here.
First prize is $500 + the opportunity for your video to be featured in a national advertising campaign.
Second prize is $250
Entries will be accepted until May 30th and winners will be announced on June 6, 2009 - the 42nd anniversary of the military occupation of the East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
2) Publicize the Contest
Join our Hang Up On Motorola group by clicking here or become our friend on YouTube by clicking here. Tell a friend about the contest by clicking here.
3) Attend a Local Action for the Global Day of BDS Action
Click here to find an action in your area.
4) Become a local Hang Up On Motorola Organizer
Sign up to become a local Moto organizer and we'll send you everything you need to establish the Motorola boycott in your area. Click here to sign up.
5) Send an Email to Moto's Leadership
Let those who profit most from Motorola's contracts with the Israeli military know that you're not buying their support for the occupation. Click here to send an email to Motorola's CEO, Greg Brown. Click here to send an email to Dean Lindroth, Moto's Vice President of Investor Relations.
6) Support Hang Up On Motorola
Even if you can't organize a local boycott or submit a spoof video to our contest you can still ensure that the Hang Up On Motorola campaign continues. Make a tax-deductible donation to support this organizing.
* $10 will pay for us to send an organizing packet to a boycott organizer anywhere in the country. Click here to donate
* $50 will pay for one 30 second commercial to air. Click here to donate.
* $200 will help us organize a protest outside of Motorola's shareholder meeting in Chicago by providing airfare for our national organizer. Click here to donate.
* $500 will sponsor one stop on our Fall 2009 National Campus BDS Organizing Tour. Click here to donate!
Learn more about the Hang Up On Motorola campaign at www.HangUpOnMotorola.org.
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Last week Motorola Israel, Ltd. sold its Government Electronics Department to Israeli military contractor Aeronautics Defense Systems. This means that Motorola will no longer be selling bomb fuses to the Israeli military. The first demand of our boycott has been met!
While this first victory is sweet, it's far from the end of Hang Up On Motorola! Motorola Israel (which is wholly owned by Motorola USA) still produces a number of products that support Israel's military occupation and entrench its apartheid system in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Support Hang Up On Motorola now and ensure that we will stay steadfast until Motorola stops profiting from Israel's human rights abuses and violations of international law. Make a $30 or greater contribution and we'll send you a poster featuring Parachutes Falling, the winning design from our Expressions of Nakba art competition. Make a $50 or greater donation and receive a DVD of Occupation 101*. Make a $100 or greater contribution and we'll send you both Parachutes Falling and Occupation 101*.
What does this sale mean for Hang Up On Motorola?
1) We have Moto on the run - we can win this boycott! The only stated motivation for this sale is that it "would enable Aeronautics to provide more comprehensive solutions to its customers," and, on its part, Motorola has declined to comment. Of course, we expect Motorola will be reticent to admit that our pressure had anything to do with this sale. Read more about how pressure from international boycott & divestment campaigns are affecting Israeli businesses here. Click here to demand divestment from occupation - make a tax-deductible donation to this campaign now!
2) Motorola is still responsible for the damage that their products have done. The "bomb family" that utilized Motorola fuses is responsible for the deaths of at least 28 civilians in Lebanon and Human Rights Watch recently found shrapnel with Motorola serial numbers on it at the site of a civilian building in Gaza bombed during Operation Cast Lead.
3) We must keep our pressure up! Even after this sale, Moto still makes myriad products used by the Israeli military to continue its occupation and enforcement of apartheid. Motorola Israel has ongoing contracts with the Israeli military, both independently of and jointly with Aeronautics Defense Systems. These contracts include military communications systems and surveillance systems for Israel's apartheid wall and illegal settlements. Motorola Israel's subsidiary, MIRS, also makes mobile phones exclusively for Israeli settlers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. This sort of business reinforces norms of apartheid and cannot be tolerated. Click here to organize the Hang Up On Motorola boycott in your area.
Photo Credit: Bud Korotzer
Our success so far is due to our supporters who have organized this campaign locally and who have sustained it by donating to our boycott & divestment work. Help see this campaign through to the end by contributing today. A $10 donation will fund a new Hang Up On Motorola organizer's campaign kit. A $50 donation will pay for one internet advertisement to raise awareness of this campaign. $200 will pay for a US campaign presence at the Motorola shareholder meeting in Chicago on May 4th. $500 will sponsor a tour stop for our Fall 2009 boycott & divestment campus organizing tour.
Get involved in organizing the Hang Up On Motorola boycott! Sign up to get a Hang Up On Motorola campaign kit by clicking here. Email the US Campaign's national organizer about demonstrating outside of the Motorola shareholder meeting by clicking here. Enter our Spoof Moto video contest! Click here to submit a video spoofing Motorola's advertising campaigns to tell the truth about its support for Israeli military occupation and apartheid.
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