Subject: ATT and Israel Defense Forces
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:30:40 -0700


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From: Ali Abunimah <ahabunim-AT-midway.uchicago.edu>
To: <gnaa-AT-egroups.com>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 10:40 AM
Subject: [GNAA] Letters to AT&T CANCELLING service


>
> Letters from myself and a friend, in response to the action alert we
> received today.
>
> Ali Abunimah
> ali-AT-abunimah.org
> http://www.abunimah.org
> ***************************************************************
>
> To: Mr. Michael Armstrong, CEO, AT&T Corporation
> Subject: CANCELLING MY LONG DISTANCE SERVICE
> Date: October 27, 2000
>
> By email: mikearmstrong-AT-ems.att.com
>
> Dear Mr. Armstrong,
>
> After ten loyal years with AT&T, I switched my residential long distance
> and international telephone service to one of your competitors today. As a
> result you will lose my frequent (and expensive) telephone calls to family
> members and friends in the Middle East.
>
> The reason for this decision was the announcement by the Israeli military
> that it has turned to AT&T to provide web hosting services for its
> website.
>
> I respect your freedom to do business with companies and individuals in
> Israel, but I find it extremely distasteful that you would step in to
> assist an army that is currently engaged in a massacre of a civilian
> population under military occupation.
>
> Over the past few weeks, the Israeli army's killing and injuring of
> thousands of unarmed Palestinian pro-democracy demonstrators has been
> unequivocally condemned by the United Nations Security Council, Amnesty
> International and many other human rights organizations.
>
> You are free to provide whatever services you see fit to Israel's
> propaganda efforts to justify this slaughter. I am also exercising my free
> choice to take my business elsewhere.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ali Abunimah
> Chicago
> <address and telephone number deleted, but included in original>
>
>
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>
> To: Michael Armstrong, CEO, AT&T Corporation
> Subject: Cancelling my AT&T calling card
> Date: October 27, 2000
>
> Dear Sir:
>
> For a decade, I have held an AT&T calling card.  I am taking action to
> cancel my affiliation with your company.
>
> Why has AT&T decided that its corporate logo ought to stand for
> repression, military occupation, routine torture used as part of
> interrogation, and massive human rights violations?  I don't know your
> companies recent history, but I cannot imagine that in the 1980's, you
> threw your company image behind the Afrikaaners in South Africae.  So why
> is it now a good idea to serve as web master for the Israeli Military
> (IDF)?
>
> The IDF website is being used to justify the mass killings and repression
> of Palestinian civilians in the occupied territories.  As you are well
> aware, in the past month, Israeli occupation forces attacks have killed
> more than 130 Palestinians including 30 children, and injured thousands.
> Israeli forces are surrounding most Palestinian cities, causing shortages
> of food and denying people freedom of movement, even to seek medical
> treatment. The disproportionate death toll clearly indicates that it is a
> lopsided clash between the military might of the occupier and the
> defenseless citizens of the occupied.  You are on the wrong side.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> David Boodell
> <address and telephone number deleted, but included in original>
>
>
>
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>
> ACTION ALERT--PLEASE FORWARD
>
> AT&T SUPPORTS "ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES" AS KILLING OF PALESTINIANS CONTINUES
>
> OCTOBER 27, 2000
>
> The Israeli military ("IDF") announced today that AT&T, the American
> telecommunications giant, will host its website.
>
> The decision follows an attack by computer hackers which knocked down the
> IDF website. A statement issued by the Israeli military October 26 said
> "In order to secure the availability and accessibility of the [IDF] site
> at all times, the professional web masters in charge of the IDF site
> turned to several other companies, from which AT&T was chosen as an
> additional provider together with Netvision [an Israeli company]."
> (Statement on http://www.idf.il) This was also reported in The Jerusalem
> Post.
>
> At this time, the IDF website is being used to propagate justifications
> for the mass killings and repression of Palestinian civilians in the
> occupied territories. For the past month, Israeli occupation forces
> attacks have killed more than 130 Palestinians including 30 children, and
> injured thousands. Israeli forces are surrounding most Palestinian cities,
> causing shortages of food and denying people freedom of movement, even to
> seek medical treatment.
>
> These actions continue despite almost universal condemnation by the
> international community, and the United Nations Security Council, Amnesty
> International and many other human rights organizations.
>
> Persons who feel that they cannot in good conscience continue to do
> business with a company that steps in to assist such a massive human
> rights abuser as the Israeli military may decide to take their long
> distance telephone business elsewhere.
>
> AT&T is the largest provider of long distance telephone service, and makes
> huge profits from international calls to the Middle East.
>
> Customers who decide they want to change their long distance carriers can
> do so by calling one of AT&T's competitors.
>
> Some of them are:
>
> *Working Assets Long Distance
> 1-800-788-8588
> http://www.workingforchange.com
>
> *MCI Worldcom
> 1-800-444-3333
> http://www.mci.com
>
> *Sprint
> 1-800-PIN-DROP
> http://www.sprint.com
>
>
> YOU CAN SEND A PROTEST LETTER OR A LETTER WHICH EXPLAINS YOUR DECISION TO
> SWITCH SERVICE TO:
>
> Mr. Michael Armstrong
> President and CEO
> AT&T Corporation
>
> by email: mikearmstrong-AT-ems.att.com
> by fax: 908-221-1211
>
> by mail:
>
> 295 North Maple Avenue
> Basking Ridge, NJ 07920
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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