Monday, January 19, 2009



Protesting Rakon

Rakon Limited is a New Zealand electronics firm. Specialising in crystal oscillators, its makes critical components for GPS systems. Unfortunately, those systems, and the components Rakon produces, are also used in the guidance packages for the precision-guided weapons Israel has been throwing around in Gaza. Along with other weapons manufacturers, Rakon is therefore an enabler of Israel's collective punishment and murder of the Palestinian people.

On Saturday, Aucklanders let Rakon know how they felt about that, protesting outside their building, paintbombing it and altering their slogan to make it clear that their business is killing. If you missed it, you can watch the video here.