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New York kicks off boycott campaign against Motorola
Monday, March 30, 2009 :More than 50 New Yorkers protested outside the Motorola office in downtown Brooklyn this morning. The protest launched a new city-wide campaign to boycott Motorola over the company's complicity in the Israeli government's apartheid practices against Palestinians. In a heavy wind, human rights campaigners from the newly formed group The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel (NYCBI) chanted, sang and passed out a thousand flyers to passersby.
The Brooklyn protest coincided with Palestinians' annual commemoration of Land Day, and was part of the Global Day of Action for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel, which included over 40 events in Europe, the US and worldwide.
Protesters greeted commuters with chants like: "No More Fuses, No More Bombs, Moto's Killing Kids and Moms," and "Motorola You Can't Hide, You're Supporting Apartheid." Signs, fluttering in the wind, read "Don't Cell Out, Boycott Motorola," "Goodbye Moto! Goodbye Apartheid!," "Israeli Apartheid, We Don't Buy It, Boycott Motorola," and "Friends Don't Let Friends Ethnically Cleanse." To the tune of Hava Nagila, participants loudly sang a new boycott song, "Don't Buy Israeli" that included the lyrics, "Don't buy Israeli, don't buy Israeli, Don't buy Israeli goods today!" and "Motorola, Sabra Hummus, You won't take our freedom from us. Don't buy Israeli goods! Stop today!"
Motorola Israel produces fuses used in cluster bombs, "bunker-buster" bombs, and a variety of other bombs
Protesters greeted commuters with chants like: "No More Fuses, No More Bombs, Moto's Killing Kids and Moms," and "Motorola You Can't Hide, You're Supporting Apartheid." Signs, fluttering in the wind, read "Don't Cell Out, Boycott Motorola," "Goodbye Moto! Goodbye Apartheid!," "Israeli Apartheid, We Don't Buy It, Boycott Motorola," and "Friends Don't Let Friends Ethnically Cleanse." To the tune of Hava Nagila, participants loudly sang a new boycott song, "Don't Buy Israeli" that included the lyrics, "Don't buy Israeli, don't buy Israeli, Don't buy Israeli goods today!" and "Motorola, Sabra Hummus, You won't take our freedom from us. Don't buy Israeli goods! Stop today!"
Motorola Israel produces fuses used in cluster bombs, "bunker-buster" bombs, and a variety of other bombs
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