Dichter’s Law
By : Uri Avnery - Sunday August 14, 2011 “THE PEOPLE Demand Social Justice!” 250 thousand protesters chanted in unison in Tel Aviv last Saturday. But what they need – to quote an American artist - is “more unemployed politicians”. Fortunately, the Knesset has gone on a prolonged vacation, three months. For as Mark Twain quipped: “No man’s life or property is safe while the legislature is in session.” As if to prove this point, MK Avi Dichter submitted, on the very last day of the (...)
read more, comments... Counter G-8 in Chicago, 2012
By : John Brown's Daughter - Wednesday July 27, 2011 Needed in Chicago, May 18-20. 1. Political puppet Art, music and theatrical direct actions such as brass bands which follow the cops around playing music and well rehearsed flash mobs all around the surrounding area to let people know what and why the dissent against NATO and G-8 is about using guerrilla theater acts in the park downtown. 2. Oppression Relief and Rescue teams for people getting abused, tear gassed, etc. by the cops. 3. Media Surveillance teams that will watch the cops (...)
read more, comments... Gaza flotilla activists: One of our ships was sabotaged
By : Amira Hass - Tuesday June 28, 2011 Israeli activist says his ship, which is docked in Greece’s Piraeus port, was found with its propeller shaft broken which he believes was a deliberate attempt at sabotage. One of the ships due to participate in the Gaza flotilla was deliberately tampered with while it was docked in Greece’s Piraeus port, Gaza flotilla activists told Haaretz on Monday. The ship, due to carry Greek, Norwegian, and Swedish passengers to Gaza, was found with its propeller shaft broken, the (...)
read more, comments... Getting on board with peace in Israel
By : Hagit Borer - Tuesday June 28, 2011 An Israeli American explains why she will be among many boat passengers trying to break through Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. Later this month an American ship, the Audacity of Hope, will leave Greece on a journey to the Gaza Strip to attempt to break Israel’s blockade. It will join an expected nine other ships flying numerous flags and carrying hundreds of passengers from around the world. I will be one of those passengers. I am an Israeli Jewish American. I was born (...)
read more, comments... Avoid Gaza Flotilla, Israel Warns Foreign Journalists
By : ETHAN BRONNER - Tuesday June 28, 2011 Israel threatened Sunday to bar for up to a decade any foreign journalist who boards a flotilla seeking to challenge an Israeli naval blockade of Gaza. Oren Helman, the director of the Government Press Office, sent a letter to registered foreign correspondents here asserting that the flotilla, scheduled to sail this week, was illegal and that participation in it, even as a reporter, was “liable to lead to participants being denied entry into the State of Israel for ten years, to the (...)
read more, comments... The Audacity of Hope: U.S. Peace Activists to Sail to Gaza in Humanitarian Flotilla
By : giordano - Sunday June 26, 2011 Dozens of Americans hope to set sail this week on a U.S.-flagged ship, “The Audacity of Hope,” as part of an international flotilla which aims to challenge Israel’s embargo of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian solidarity activists are setting sail from a number of ports just over a year after Israeli forces killed nine activists on an aid boat called the Mavi Marmara, which was part of the first such international flotilla. Israel says it will again use force to stop the aid (...)
read more, comments... Freedom Riding to Gaza
By : David Swanson - Sunday June 26, 2011 Fifty years ago, freedom riders traveled by bus into the U.S. South. Now American freedom riders are joining their allies from around the world on a flotilla bound for Gaza. The U.S. ship is called The Audacity of Hope. The heroes on this ship have pledged to sail unarmed and to refuse to use violence. The Israeli military, which continues to illegally blockade Gaza, causing endless suffering to the Gazan people, has pledged to use violent force to prevent the ships getting through. (...)
read more, comments... ’Freedom Flotilla 2’ prepares to sail to Gaza in next few days
By : IMEMC - Friday June 24, 2011 While Israeli and US officials have worked to dissuade the Freedom Flotilla from setting sail to Gaza next week, the flotilla participants have vowed to go ahead with their plan to bring aid and support to the people of the Gaza Strip, who remain under an Israeli-imposed siege that began in 2007. At a recent press conference by an Israeli naval commander, the commander said he did not believe that the flotilla would contain weapons, and acknowledged that the passengers on the boats are (...)
read more, comments... Belfast riots: Video of Irish youths attacking police vans
By : Belfast - Wednesday June 22, 2011 A British news agency said Wednesday that one of its photographers had suffered a leg injury during sectarian clashes in Belfast, Northern Ireland, overnight Tuesday. Hundreds of rioters threw petrol bombs and attacked police vans in east Belfast on Tuesday as sectarian violence flared up for a second night in Northern Ireland.
read more, comments... Our Tahrir Square: DC’s Freedom Plaza on October 6th
By : David Swanson - Monday June 6, 2011 When other nations’ governments go off track, their people do something about it. In Tunisia and Egypt people have nonviolently claimed power in a way that has inspired Americans in Wisconsin and other states, as well as the people of Spain and the rest of the world. Washington, D.C., is the weakest point in our democracy, without which state-level reform cannot succeed. Most Americans want our wars ended, our corporations and billionaires taxed, and our rights expanded rather than (...)
read more, comments... (audio in greek) MASSIV PROTEST IN GREECE ("INDIGNADOS") ON AIR NOW
By : via LL - Wednesday May 25, 2011 Greek protests that are happening as we speak in the mode of the indignados. Very few media are covering. And it’s massive! For greek speakers, Radio on air here: http://www.zougla.gr/page.ashx?pid=...
read more, comments... Heckler yells ’stop Israeli war crimes’ during Netanyahu’s speech to Congress
By : Washington - Wednesday May 25, 2011 Jewish-American activist identified as Rae Abileah, a 28-year-old of Israeli descent and member of the group CODEPINK. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the Joint Session of Congress on Tuesday was disrupted by a left-wing protester calling to stop the Israeli occupation in Palestine. The heckler was identified as Rae Abileah, a 28-year-old Jewish-American activist, of Israeli decent, who works with human rights organization CODEPINK. Rae Abileah is taken away after (...)
read more, comments... BUCKINGHAM PALACE PROTEST AGAINST WAR PRESIDENT OBAMA
By : London - Tuesday May 24, 2011 Without a trace of irony, President Barack Obama — the commander-in-chief of an empire which straddles the world, who has more than doubled the troops in Afghanistan, who continues to occupy Iraq, who has dramatically escalated a deadly drone war in Pakistan and who is currently bombing Libya — spoke last week of the "moral force of non-violence" and said he "will not tolerate aggression across borders". (SEE Choking on the Hypocrisy of Obama’s (...)
read more, comments... PROTEST WHEN OBAMA MEETS THE QUEEN 24 MAY
By : London - Friday May 20, 2011 STOP THE OBAMA WARS : TUESDAY 24 MAY 5.30PM BUCKINGHAM PALACE LONDON SW1A 1AA Called by Stop the War and CND President Obama is visiting Britain next week. It is important he and the world understand that the wars in Afghanistan and Libya are deeply unpopular here. Far from bringing an end to George Bush’s wars, President Obama has presided over attacks on Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia and Libya, as well as the continuing occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is (...)
read more, comments... STOP THE BOMBING OF LIBYA NOW: PROTEST 19 APRIL
By : London - Monday April 18, 2011 Britain France and the US have now come clean. The article signed by Cameron, Sarkozy and Obama, and published today in Washington, Paris and London, makes clear the war on Libya is not about protecting civilians but about regime change. Having ignored peace moves from the African Union, NATO is now set on escalating the bombing. The humanitarian spin they are putting on the operation is exposed by the fact that the Western governments continue to support brutal (...)
read more, comments... New Yorkers protest US policies
By : New York - Tuesday April 12, 2011 Thousands of Americans have staged a protest rally in New York City to voice concerns over US war and foreign policies as well as the economy and the persisting reduction of social programs. Scores of peace, labor and community activists took to the streets of the major commercial city on Saturday to call for peace and solidarity with Muslims and an end to US wars abroad, a Press TV correspondent reported. “I am sick and tired of the elite trying to rule the country, the elite that (...)
read more, comments... For a total transparency on the airborne radioactivity we are currently breathing.
By : Romain Chazel - Friday April 8, 2011 PETITION For a total transparency on the airborne radioactivity we are currently breathing. There are 60 certified radionuclide stations fully equipped with high precision detectors that are set up around the world to monitor airborne radioactivity on a daily basis with unprecedented accuracy. Their objective : Find low quantities of radioactive particles that could reveal a possible nuclear test in violation of the Comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty (TICEN). Results of the analyses (...)
read more, comments... Video: Union Official: Stop Misplacing Tax Dollars for Wars!
By : William Hughes - Tuesday March 29, 2011 On Monday, at noon, on March 28, 2011, a press conference was held in front of Baltimore’s City Hall. Its purpose was to urge the General Assembly of Maryland, currently in session in Annapolis, to fully fund city schools and not to shift the cost of teacher pensions to the local school systems. Fred Mason is a union official. He charged that citizens should be “mad about the federal government misplacing tax dollars for wars.” He shared his views with me on this issue. (...)
read more, comments... Benghazi : a snake’s nest of Al-Qaeda
By : Libya - Monday March 28, 2011 Reports from Libya and the events around it exceeded the amount of information published in the international media about the African country with a population of 5 million people over the past 40 years. Despite this, some significant, we can say crucial details of what’s really going on in Libya remain outside the focus of media and, consequently, the general public. "Transitional Government" of " so called «pro-democratic forces» who are fighting against the regime of Colonel (...)
read more, comments... 30 BILLION REASONS TO JOIN ANTI-CUTS MARCH
By : London - Friday March 25, 2011 CUT WARFARE NOT WELFARE ANTI-WAR / PEACE CONTINGENT STOP THE WAR, CND & BMI ON THE TUC ANTI-CUTS DEMONSTRATION SATURDAY 26 MARCH: ASSEMBLE 11AM HMS PRESIDENT, VICTORIA EMBANKMENT (Near Blackfriars Bridge. MAP HERE: http://bit.ly/e0NFYr ) The TUC anti-cuts march on 26 March could be the largest in Britain since the two million strong Stop the War march against the Iraq war in 2003. Stop the War, CND and BMI will have a combined anti-war / peace contingent on the (...)
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