Action Alert: Time Is Running Out To Send A Message To The LA MTA Board
August 6, 2009
Dear Supporters,
Time is running out to send the Los Angeles MTA Board Members the message that you do not want your tax dollars going to corporations that support Iran's nuclear program and facilitate Iran's brutal repression of its own people.
Tomorrow the Los Angeles Metro Transit Authority (MTA) Board is scheduled to vote on whether to open the bidding to Siemens for a $300 million contract to make rail cars for the LA subway. We can send a message to the MTA Board and other relevant city officials demanding that our tax dollars not go to corporations like Siemens and AnsaldoBreda that support Iran's nuclear program and facilitate its brutal repression of its own people. Click here to send a Message to the LA MTA Board Members and other LA city officials.
Now, more than ever, Iran relies on international corporations to support its fragile economy, to fund its nuclear program and to perpetuate its brutal dictatorial theocracy. By doing business in Iran companies like Siemens and AnsaldoBreda provide the last support for the faltering Iranian economy and facilitate the regimes diversion of funds to its illicit nuclear program. The events currently unfolding in Iran reveal the brutality of the Iranian regime.
The suppression of those who have sought free and democratic elections underscores the thuggish nature of the regime while innocents like Neda Agha-Soltan have been murdered.
Most recently the Wall Street Journal reported that Siemens was providing the Iranian regime with the technology it needs to spy on Iranians, monitor their communications and activities and to brutally crackdown on dissent: "The Iranian regime has developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies, one of the world's most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet, allowing it to examine the content of individual online communications on a massive scale...The monitoring capability was provided, at least in part, by a joint venture of Siemens AG, the German conglomerate, and Nokia Corp., the Finnish cellphone company." Click here to read the story in the Wall Street Journal.
And according to the LA Times "...Breda is owned by Finmeccanica, a conglomerate of defense, aerospace, energy and transportation companies, which has deals to provide Iran with 44 gas turbines through its subsidiary Ansaldo Energia." Click here to read the story in the LA Times.
Please ensure that your hard earned money does not go to companies that provide an economic lifeline to Iran and the Ayatollah.
Take Action Now:
Time is running out to send the Los Angeles MTA Board Members the message that you do not want your tax dollars going to corporations that support Iran's nuclear program and facilitate Iran's brutal repression of its own people.
Tomorrow the Los Angeles Metro Transit Authority (MTA) Board is scheduled to vote on whether to open the bidding to Siemens for a $300 million contract to make rail cars for the LA subway. We can send a message to the MTA Board and other relevant city officials demanding that our tax dollars not go to corporations like Siemens and AnsaldoBreda that support Iran's nuclear program and facilitate its brutal repression of its own people. Click here to send a Message to the LA MTA Board Members and other LA city officials.
Now, more than ever, Iran relies on international corporations to support its fragile economy, to fund its nuclear program and to perpetuate its brutal dictatorial theocracy. By doing business in Iran companies like Siemens and AnsaldoBreda provide the last support for the faltering Iranian economy and facilitate the regimes diversion of funds to its illicit nuclear program. The events currently unfolding in Iran reveal the brutality of the Iranian regime.
The suppression of those who have sought free and democratic elections underscores the thuggish nature of the regime while innocents like Neda Agha-Soltan have been murdered.
Most recently the Wall Street Journal reported that Siemens was providing the Iranian regime with the technology it needs to spy on Iranians, monitor their communications and activities and to brutally crackdown on dissent: "The Iranian regime has developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies, one of the world's most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet, allowing it to examine the content of individual online communications on a massive scale...The monitoring capability was provided, at least in part, by a joint venture of Siemens AG, the German conglomerate, and Nokia Corp., the Finnish cellphone company." Click here to read the story in the Wall Street Journal.
And according to the LA Times "...Breda is owned by Finmeccanica, a conglomerate of defense, aerospace, energy and transportation companies, which has deals to provide Iran with 44 gas turbines through its subsidiary Ansaldo Energia." Click here to read the story in the LA Times.
Please ensure that your hard earned money does not go to companies that provide an economic lifeline to Iran and the Ayatollah.
Take Action Now:
Click here to send a Message to the Los Angeles MTA Board Members and other LA city officials.
Click here to visit UANI's Iran Business Registry
Click here to receive UANI's daily news summary Eye on Iran
Click here to contribute to UANI
Click here to follow UANI on facebook
Click here to follow UANI on twitter
Receive Iran News in Your Inbox.
Eye on Iran is a news summary from United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), a section 501(c)(3) organization. Eye on Iran is available to subscribers on a daily basis or weekly basis.
×