Billboard Company Cancels “Equal Rights For Palestinians”
Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign
April 28th, 2011
Efforts by the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign (SeaMAC) to call attention to injustices against the Palestinian people have once again been censored.
Just days after several billboards went up in the Seattle area with the slogan “EQUAL RIGHTS FOR PALESTINIANS – Stop Funding the Israeli Military”, Clear Channel Outdoor, the billboard company, announced that it was canceling the contract and taking the billboards down.
“It seems clear that even a call for equal rights for Palestinians is a message that the Israel Lobby in this country cannot tolerate,” said Rod Such, volunteer with SeaMAC.
In a call yesterday to SeaMAC representatives, Olivia Lippens, president of local Clear Channel, confirmed that objections from unnamed “groups and individuals” caused Clear Channel to “re-evaluate”.
Several organizations that dispute civil, political, and national rights for Palestinians also objected to SeaMAC’s Metro bus ad campaign, “ISRAELI WAR CRIMES: Your Tax Dollars at Work” which was to run on Metro buses starting last December. King County ultimately cancelled those ads and refused to honor the signed contract with SeaMAC.
At least three of SeaMAC’s billboards were already in place: on Aurora at Republican, on Elliot Way near West Lee St., and on Lake City Way near 104th St. Ms. Lippens told SeaMAC that the billboards will be taken down as soon as possible and that all money will be refunded.
“We are concerned by the apparent campaign to deny human rights organizations the right to air our views in the public arena”, said Ed Mast, another SeaMAC volunteer. “And we’re very disturbed that those individuals and groups that oppose equal rights and human rights for Palestinians have such power over both public and private media organizations.”
SeaMAC will hold a press conference Thursday at noon to divulge further details. The press conference will take place outdoors under the location of one of the billboards that SeaMAC purchased, on Elliot Ave West, just north of West Lee St. Press packets will be available.
They should have expected this and bought a bill board. They will have to control the whole channel or “unnamed” sources will pressure the owner of
the channel to remove the message.
I’d like a copy of the picture. dvlinablusuit@yahoo.com
This is most unfortunate. Yet another victory for Abe Foxman and his cohorts to keep the average American ignorant of the fact that Israel is a criminal, pariah state.
The only free speech in this country is that approved by Israel and it lobbies. How is it possible for such a small group to control and manipulate this entire’s nation, government, and hijack the biill of rights. As long as all of us stay silent and hide behind comment sections nothing will change. GET OFF YOUR salivation for entertainment and sports and claim your humanity and country otherwise don’t be surprised when we all pay for Israel and our youth die for its wars. why do they hate us? Israel why do we hate them? Israel America you’re either free or serve Israel in complicity.
You are right on. I knew things were outrageous when these cows came into OUR country and started taking over and putting laws on and in OUR Halls of Justice and on our books that gave them coverage for what they wanted and needed long term to benefit them. These cows always stratigize everything to squeeze it so everyone else suffers. This IS why people’s from centuries past grew to hate these cows. When these cows started to see people’s were getting upset with them they put on OUR law books WE were discriminating against them!
Just like they have done to almost every other people’s, made a business out if taking advantage of the goodness and kindness of America and Americans. The Zionists have always worsheped the Golden Cow. God pointed that out centuries before. God should have left them wandering in the desert. Mankind would have been better served and Millions of lives would not have died or been massacred because of these cows. They certainly ARE NOT GOD’s Chosen Peoples. They are and remain mentally unfit, twisted, sordid, heartless monsters.
We the American Peoples never should have helped to start the destruct of the poor Palestinian Peoples and given these cows Israel. These cows have no boundaries. They just steal unending. America was always a good Christian Nation but these cows lead by Rothchild wanted more than their fare share. This was why Pres Kennedy and other good peoples were murdered. As Americans we need to take back OUR country. These Transplanted Cows need to go. America Belongs To
America, NOT Israel.
Why is President Obomber aligning with these Genocidal Murderers, giving Billions to Israel, the Feds and unending Arms to kill innocent civilians? Stand up America and demand all monies and arms be cut off to Israel! How can we give to them when the American Peoples are grievously broke from Israel’s plundering ? Our Country, Children, Elderly come before any country, surely Israel!
more proof of the power these sociopaths want to have over all aspects of everyone elses lives. For christ’s sake, they’ve run roughshod over American 1st amendment rights and even broke a legal contract with impunity over these billboards. What kind of people would want to have that kind of control over another persons life?
Look up the word sociopath in the dictionary to find out.
Peace, prosperity and justice, in-spite of them.
I assume “this is the SAME Clear Channel that carries all the PSEUDO-christian PROPHETS-for-PROFIT that shill for Israel all day.
You might try going after OTHER billboard renters of that company …..
Ask them why they use a bigoted company.
ADL/AIPAC strike again. Won’t be able to keep a lid on this forever
Same as Harry said. Meanwhile the Fukushima in the middle of the most active tsunami zone on the beach with emergency cooling fuel tanks exposed to be washed away by the next tsunami and emergency generators in the basement was sited and permitted by the Nixon administration’s boss and U.N. ambassador, Prescott and George H.W. Bush who discussed eugenics and WWII nazis and banked for them and knew the radioactivity would carry over the north pacific and contaminate the mainland U.S. for months. Their choice to head the AEC was a member of Jack Parsons’ ‘acts of the satanic,satanic church as her sole qualification. Their BlackStone investment friends bought the WTCs and they all blew them up 6 weeks later and had Larry Silverstein take the rap because Silversteins buddies controlled the paper on the WTCs since they had become a huge liability and
It is becoming more and more apparent that decent Americans, who care about the rights of others (Palestinians), must take drastic against Israel and the “firsters” imbedded our once glorious nation. Time to boycott all their products and services. Money is the only thing these people understand.
Fabulous. The Americans prove, on a daily basis, how spectacularly sheep-like they are.
Israel is a tool. the cabal that gave us the adjustable rate mortgage fraud, the debt, 9-11, the well blow-out in the GOM,the site and license for the Fukushima array in Japan under the Tokyo Electric Power Company and the predicted certain fall-out over the U.S. is the mechanic.
Can I ask for a copy over my email? Thank!