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  • Dichter’s Law
    14 August 2011 par Uri Avnery (Open-Publishing)

    “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 outgoing session, a bill so outrageous that it (...)

  • Counter G-8 in Chicago, 2012
    27 July 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    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 (...)

  • Gaza flotilla activists: One of our ships was sabotaged
    28 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    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 ship’s (...)

  • Getting on board with peace in Israel
    28 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    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 in Israel, (...)

  • Avoid Gaza Flotilla, Israel Warns Foreign Journalists
    28 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    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 (...)

  • The Audacity of Hope: U.S. Peace Activists to Sail to Gaza in Humanitarian Flotilla
    26 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    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 flotilla from (...)

  • Freedom Riding to Gaza
    26 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    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. (...)

  • ’Freedom Flotilla 2’ prepares to sail to Gaza in next few days
    24 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    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 (...)

  • Belfast riots: Video of Irish youths attacking police vans
    22 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    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.

  • Our Tahrir Square: DC’s Freedom Plaza on October 6th
    6 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    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 (...)