Apakah tindakan yang boleh di lakukan oleh kita sendiri? Dalam kategori kemampuan, kebolehan, keupayaan atau kecapaian dengan bakat atau apa yang ada pada diri kita. Saya yakin setiap kita bisa melakukan sesuatu setimpal dengan kemampuan yang ada. Banyak sekali yang boleh di fikir dan lakukan. Kita boleh lakukan perorangan. Hanya degan berpasukan dan berkelompok multiplying effects nya lebeh meluas dan berkesan. Saya yakin ramai yang akan berfikir kreatif. Boikot adalah satu senjata tajam yang patut di mainkan semaksimal mungkin. Boikot adalah hak dan tanggungjawab kita. Boikot hanya satu taktik dan metode yang boleh di gunakan oleh sesiapa sahaja, baik yang miskin maupun si kaya. Boikot tidak di kongkong oleh apa jua Rang Undang Undang atau di bendong oleh legal instruments. Boikot ada lah keupayaan yang dijelmakan secara peribadi dan berkelompok. Ianya lahir dari kesadaran hati nurani kita menunjuk rasa tidak puas atau tidak setuju kita kepada yang kita tidak suka. Ketidak sukaan kita ini bukan suatu mainan atau sandiwara. Inilah satu metode atau taktik yang bukan men-terrorise kan dengan senjata api atau alat pembunuh manusia. Adakan pemboikot boleh di samakan dengan terrorist? Sebelum itu, adakah boikot boleh di samakan dengan terorisme? Memang, kedua dua nya hanya satu taktik, satu metode atau satu kaedah mencapai maksud atau matlamat. Boikot lebeh selamat. Atas nama negara Bush telah mengistiharkan war against terrorism. Ini usha raja bahlol/bloody fool (saya pinjam istillah Pak Natsir). Bagi kita kita lakukan dan gunakan boikot untuk menentang terrorist state. Boikot juga menjemput counter boikot. Ini sudah satu adat biasa. Apatah lagi kesan boikot mengengat tajam perekonomian negara. Kesan sampingan yang amat terkesan ialah mengheret kepehakan dan meningkatkan kepedulian terhadap isu yang di bangkitkan. Kesan sampingan ini lebeh dahshat dan menakutkan. Objektif politik boikot tidak ada bedanya dengan objektif politik terorisme. Perbedaan asasinya ialah objektif politik memboikot tidak membunuh manusia, ianya membunuh terrorizing and warring mindset negara teroris. Minda/mindset memboikot ini telah di politikkan oleh WTO. WTO takut sekali dengan perang boikot ini. Who care WTO? Boikot kita tidak ada kena mengena dengan rezim negara. Usaha boikot kita adalah upaya warganegara/ citizen efforts. Dari bawah keatas. And, to the world scene. Boikot kita ini satu ibadah. Ibadah muamalah. Adakah kegiatan boikot fardhu kifayah? Atau saperti yang di bicarakan oleh Imam Al-Ghazali ada kalanya status fardhu kifayah kalau di persetujui boleh di jadikan fardhu 'ain. Yang jelas kita selalu mendengar sikap tegas dan laungan Sheikh Yusuf Al Qaradawi agar kita memperkemaskan kegiatan boikot ini. Beliau saorang advokat kempen boikot barang dagangan Israel dan perusahaan yang memehak kepada Israel. Sa'id Hawa membicarakan da'wah yang tersusun dan terarah. Sampai masanya kita melaksanakan boikot yang tersusun daan terarah. Ramai para peace activist, worldwide, memperkukuhkan barisan dengan kempen boikot. Boikot telah menjadi satu disiplin berpolitik/discipline of political activism yang di amal baik oleh civil society organization. Keratan makalah Stanley Heller di bawah meminta kita berkreatif dalam memboikot. Time to Play Hardball Why It's Useless to Lobby Congress on Gaza By STANLEY HELLER ………… ………… Peace groups, don’t tell me to write or call these unspeakable political lowlifes. Start thinking up ways to disrupt their lives and the lives and fortunes of all the self-satisfied racists who make life hell for Palestinians. Some suggestions: 1. Demonstrate in the Streets. Not just in front of the government buildings, but in front of Israel Bonds offices, El Al Airlines, the homes of members of Congress, and the businesses of people who give massive amounts of money to Israel. There’s a weekly picket of the Manhattan diamond store owned by Israeli settlement builder Leviev. In a city like New York there should be enough people to picket 9-5 every day it’s open. There are plenty more places to picket. In 2007 Donald Trump gave a quarter million dollars to the “Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces”. Why not demonstrate in front of his ailing Atlantic City casinos? 2. Buy a Keffiyeh. Wear a Keffiyeh. During the Holocaust the Nazis in many countries made Jews wear Jewish stars so that they could be singled out and humiliated or attacked.. According to the Yad Vashem institute in France many non-Jews won the Jewish star as an act of solidarity. According to legend the Danish King Christian X put on a Jewish star for the same reason. Today our symbol of solidarity must the keffiyeh, the head scarf worn in different styles by Arab men and women. You could see it everywhere among the 15,000 who marched in New York City last week, a march of mostly Arab and Islamic people. It needs to be worn proudly by the “whites”, too. Wear it to work and see what conversations it starts. 3. Demand unions publicly sell their Israel Bonds. 1700 unions own Israel Bonds. Last September the head of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store was honored at a dinner of the Israel Bonds National Labor Division where $40 million was raised for the bonds in one night. See him beaming at Hillary Clinton in a picture here. How many of the members of those 1700 unions have any notion that their leaders are buying these bonds with their dues or pension money? It’s time to play hardball. The union movement is desperate to get a card check bill passed. Word is that Obama has already decided not to make it a top priority. So it’s going to be a fight. The last thing unions want is bad publicity in a dispute with human rights and Islamic groups about their owning bonds that support an apartheid state. I love unions and have been a union member for 40 years, but enough is enough. 4. Meet up with Muslims. Muslim people in the U.S. have been arrested, demonized and demoralized since 9/11. The horror of Gaza is making U.S. Muslims furious and they’re starting to get active in the streets. A good place to work with them is through the local chapter of CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations. www.cair.com 5. Boycott Israeli goods. I haven’t bought as much as a Hanukah candle from Israel in years. I won’t buy a computer made with an Intel processor because Intel has a huge factory in Israel on confiscated Palestinian land. Here’s one list of Israeli products and here’s another courtesy of a site urging you to buy Israeli goods!If you need more arguments see Naomi Klein’s recent article And if a boycott is to have any effect it has to be an active boycott. Ask store owners to remove offending goods and picket the stores that stubbornly trade in the “forbidden” goods. For tips google the Jewish anti-Nazi boycott of the 30’s. 6. Boycott Israeli personalities. Not everyone of course, not Israelis who will speak out against apartheid and war crimes. (There are some Arab countries which stupidly make it a crime to deal with any Israeli!) Obviously picket any Israeli political speaker. (Screw dialogue with them.) If your college works with Israeli institutions campaign to have it stopped. Try to keep the Israeli Philharmonic or Israeli athletes out of your city. No team would ever play against a South African team during the heyday of apartheid protests. 7. The corporate media sucks, but use it as much as possible. Write letters and op-eds. If they’re not published call the editors and bug them about denying equal time. Closely monitor what the editorial page and news page publish. If they don’t cover your protests call the news desk, call or email the publisher. Ask for meetings. The Israeli embassy does it all the time. Get all the coverage you can, but at the same time raise money for your own publicity. 8. Raise money, lots of money. You gave it to stonehearted politicians. Now give it to human rights groups. Rent billboards. Put ads on buses or in college newspapers, or on internet sites. Plaster signs on walls. Run 30 second spots on cable TV. If the stations object to running a “controversial political message” announce a run for political office. Legally they have to run ads by candidates! 9. Give money to Gaza. Eventually some of it will get through. Give to the UN via UNWRA. 10. Insist the national peace coalitions act together. We have UFPJ, ANSWER and the IA Center all calling their own demonstrations. The differences in their programs are less than the length of a gnats toenail. Press them to cooperate. Insist they have open planning meetings. 11. Start thinking of ways to boycott Egypt. Their dictator Mubarak is a full partner to war crimes. By international law people being massacred have a right to flee and become refugees. Mubarak’s troops maintain the Rafah-Egypt wall and shoot and Palestinians who try to break it down. Stay away from Egypt. You can see the pyramids some other time. 12. Think of new ways to put the heat on. Try them out and publicize them. Invent Wiki-Protest. Stanley Heller is host of the “The Struggle”, a weekly TV news program shown on the internet and on 19 cable channels. http://www.counterpunch.com/heller01132009.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ =============================================================== UNTUK DIPERHATIKAN, melanggar akan dimoderasi/dibanned: - Anggota WAJIB mematuhi peraturan serta mengirim biodata! Lihat di: http://groups.google.com/group/RantauNet/web/peraturan-rantaunet - Tulis Nama, Umur & Lokasi di setiap posting - Hapus footer & seluruh bagian tdk perlu dalam melakukan reply - Untuk topik/subjek baru buat email baru, tidak dengan mereply email lama - DILARANG: 1. 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