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“What happened to your face, sweetheart?” a man said at a morgue in Gaza on Monday. He was a member of the Dalu family—one of those who were left—and, according to Reuters, had just been asked to identify his wife; he did, and cried. She had been in the family’s house on Sunday, when a bomb fell on it and, under its force, it crumbled into a hole in the ground. Neighbors ran to the hole and started digging, but they needed a bulldozer to help. First they found three grownups, and then “they (…)

Official NUS #demo2012 page
http://www.demo2012.org.uk/
Route map
http://www.demo2012.org.uk/?page_id=22
http://www.facebook.com/events/479744058749195/486327871424147/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity
21 nov 2012 10:00 (UTC)
Day-Mer Youth meeting point:
NLCH 9am. Flags and banners will be available there.
The National Union of Students National Conference voted overwhelmingly to organise a HUGE NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION against fees, cuts and privatisation in the autumn term! GET THE (…)

Katrina-Sandy: From one hurricane to another, the end of America as we knew it Pubic announcement GEAB N°69 (November 16, 2012) -
As anticipated by LEAP/E2020 for several months, a major shock to the world economy and global stability has arrived in the Fall of 2012, in the form of a symbolic landmark in world history: Hurricane Sandy.
In the method of political anticipation upon which LEAP bases its analyses (1), Sandy corresponds to two characteristics: the “last-straw” event in which (…)

#GazaUnderAttack| Names and ages of killed people in the ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza
Because we are NOT just numbers, keep following this post of the names and ages of murdered people who fell victim during the past days of Israeli attacks on Gaza since Wednesday. The number rises to 72 and still rising :( I hope that this battle will cost us no more souls. However, nothing will depress us, no matter how much Israel escalates its inhumanity and crimes. We’ll remain ready to pay any (…)

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/nationalize-oil-industry-we-americans-have-suffered-enough-oil-titans-control-industry/dLlD7xtY
Found this...must be another american republic manifestum idea to bring the price of fuel down...and getting rid of the oil titans...this time.

Rafeef Ziadah - ’We teach life, sir’, London, 12.11.11

This is a short media statement we (the Gaza Eight) felt we had to publish on the recent failure of the corporate media to report on Gaza. You can see the published statement also here:
http://mondoweiss.net/2012/11/nous-accusons-mainstream-media-fails-to-report-context-and-severity-of-israeli-atrocities-against-gaza.html
http://rabble.ca/news/2012/11/nous-accusons-mainstream-media-fails-report-atrocities-gaza
While countries across Europe and North America commemorated military (…)

ISRAELI EMBASSY 2 Palace Green, London W8 4QB
Near High Street Kensington tube station
Facebook http://on.fb.me/StMUVn
Sign the petition http://tinyurl.com/a9c428w
Protests around the UK http://bit.ly/UIbGlf
If you can volunteer for Stop the War on Saturday to support the protest (stewarding, running stalls, getting people signed up) please telephone the office on 020 7561 931

’A BBC Arabic journalist whose baby was killed by shrapnel in Gaza has been speaking about his son’s death.
Jihad Misharawi said his 11-month-old son Omar died after shrapnel hit the family home in Gaza.
Violence has been escalating across Gaza and southern Israel following the Israeli killing of Hamas’ military chief on Wednesday, as Jon Donnison explains.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20340810

Demonstrations against the Israeli deadly military operation in Gaza were held in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem on Thursday night by Hadash (The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality – Communist Party of Israel). Also, Arab and Jewish students, Hadash members, took part in demonstrations held at Haifa University, Tel-Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Thursday afternoon.
Activists all over the country chanted slogan such as "Arabs and Jews refuse to be enemies," (…)