Dear all, Meneruskan seruan ini. Tapi jangan lupa juga utk dukung petisi pembubaran FPI. :)
Thx, -- Anton Muhajir http://www.rumahtulisan.com --- On Mon, 6/2/08, ANSWER Coalition <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: ANSWER Coalition <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Over 8000 boycott letters sent to Dunkin Donuts! Take action now! To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, June 2, 2008, 4:30 PM PEP #yiv1427570981 .greengroove { border-left:1 solid #677968;border-right:2 groove #677968; border-top:1 solid #677968;border-bottom:3 groove #4b594b; Subscribe **Please circulate widely** June 2, 2008 Since the ANSWER Coalition announced a boycott of Dunkin Donuts three days ago for yielding to anti-Arab racism, over 8000 letters have been sent to the company expressing support for the boycott. The organizers state that the boycott will be in place until Dunkin Donuts offers an apology to the Arab-American community for this disgraceful surrender to racism. The boycott is now also being supported by the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, the largest grassroots Muslim organization in the United States; the National Council of Arab Americans (NCA), a nationwide group of grassroots activists, community leaders, professionals, and academics; the Palestinian-American Womens Association, a community-based organization working to support and promote the needs and leadership of Arab American Women; and the National Lawyers Guild, the oldest and largest public interest/human rights bar organization in the United States. The boycott has already received extensive press coverage across the country and throughout the Middle East. Click this link to read the AFP coverage of the boycott. Newsweek ran a commentary on the controversy titled, "Not So Sweet: Why Dunkin' Donuts shouldn't have caved in the controversy over Rachael Ray's 'kaffiyeh' scarf." Click this link to read the article. If you haven't yet sent your letter to Dunkin Donuts, click this link to do so right now. For background information, we have included below our initial announcement of the boycott. Boycott: Don't Shop at Dunkin' Donuts! Say No to Anti-Arab Racism Dunkin Donuts pulled this advertisement after right-wing racists complained that the scarf in the ad was a kaffiyeh. The ANSWER Coalition and others are calling for a worldwide boycott of Dunkin’ Donuts. The boycott intends to send a powerful message to Dunkin’ Donuts and other corporations that engage in racism or pandering to anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racists. Please lend your name to the boycott by clicking this link and send a letter to Dunkin' Donuts. Be sure to circulate this call to your friends on list serves and social networking sites. Here’s the background: Dunkin’ Donuts has capitulated and withdrawn an advertisement for its products following the allegation by a right-wing hack, Michelle Malkin, that the spokeswoman in the ad was pictured wearing a kaffiyeh, a scarf which is a staple of clothing traditionally worn by Palestinian men. The scarf pictured in the ad is not actually a kaffiyeh. But the anti-Arab racism of the right-wing, pro-Bush ideologues like Malkin is so extreme that they launched their campaign because they “thought” the scarf was this traditional Arab garment. Dunkin’ Donuts pulled their ad apologizing that the scarf might even resemble a kaffiyeh. In Malkin’s twisted world anything “Arab,” even a scarf, is “terrorist.” This is the same line of thinking promoted by the Bush administration in the wake of 9/11, when thousands of Middle Eastern men living in the United States were rounded up and falsely imprisoned. Some were even tried on phony “terrorism” charges. It is the same line of thinking that was used to promote the racist war drive against Afghanistan and then Iraq. The fact that a giant corporation like Dunkin’ Donuts quickly pulled the advertisement is a sign that the pervasive racism, chauvinism and xenophobia peddled by right-wing bigots is a real danger. This is a classic tactic of fascist intimidation and demonization of an entire population. We demand that Dunkin’ Donuts immediately apologize to the Arab-American community for this disgraceful surrender to racism. Until that apology is issued we will refuse to shop or buy any products marketed by the Dunkin' Donuts Corporation. Please lend your name to the boycott by clicking this link and send a letter to Dunkin' Donuts. Be sure to circulate this call to your friends on list serves and social networking sites. Please make an urgently needed donation right now to help build this boycott and important campaign against racism. A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition http://www.answercoalition.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] National Office in Washington DC: 202-544-3389 New York City: 212-694-8720 Los Angeles: 213-251-1025 San Francisco: 415-821-6545 Chicago: 773-463-0311 Click here to unsubscribe from the ANSWER e-mail list. If this message was forwared to you and you'd like to receive future ANSWER updates, Click here to subscribe.
