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Aug 17 2010
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RHYTHM AND RAFFLE FOR REFUGEE RELIEF |
This Saturday Collateral Repair Project (CRP) hosts an evening of music, food, prizes, and a silent auction to benefit desperate Iraqi families living in squalid conditions in Jordan. All proceeds will go to support CRP operations in Jordan in their ongoing assistance of refugees. Your help and support is urgently needed !!
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Jul 29 2010
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Gaza Blockade Halts Kindergarten |
Kate Gould has called Jackson County home for the last 15 years. She will be speaking about her 8 months living and working in the Occupied Palestinian Territories from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 28, at the Gresham Room of the Ashland Public Library.
The following editorial was written by Kate...
"Just got back from Gaza, where I saw first hand the effects of a blockade that continues to deny Gazans the ability to rebuild their war-torn society--including the right to build this much dreamed of kindergarten."
The following editorial was written by Kate...
"Just got back from Gaza, where I saw first hand the effects of a blockade that continues to deny Gazans the ability to rebuild their war-torn society--including the right to build this much dreamed of kindergarten."
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Jul 20 2010
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Interruption as Intervention: Why I Fucked with Chuck (Schumer) |
Schumer was the special guest at a hipster romp [last] Sunday. I heckled him off the stage.From Jews Against Israeli Chutzpah: [Last week], as I found myself deep in a sea of Williamsburg hipsters awaiting a "Pool Party" concert at East River State Park, a rather unexpected "special guest" was announced by an entirely too enthusiastic emcee for the artfully apathetic aesthetes who dared not display any sentiment beyond irony. I assumed maybe we'd be graced by some luminary of the scene (spending the last five years in Binghamton, NY prevents me from naming whom that might be)...
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Jul 10 2010
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Decades of Palestinian Displacement in East Jerusalem |
Israel wants the city exclusively Jewish
The UN General Assembly's 1947 Resolution 181 internationalized Jerusalem as a separate body (a corpus separatum), administered by a UN Trustee Council, a policy still binding but not followed. Nor have other resolutions or international law provisions Israel rejects, ones interfering with its military occupation, affecting E. Jerusalem Palestinians repressively since June 1967, more still after passage of the July 30, 1980 Basic Law, declaring "Jerusalem, complete and united, is the capital of Israel."
The UN General Assembly's 1947 Resolution 181 internationalized Jerusalem as a separate body (a corpus separatum), administered by a UN Trustee Council, a policy still binding but not followed. Nor have other resolutions or international law provisions Israel rejects, ones interfering with its military occupation, affecting E. Jerusalem Palestinians repressively since June 1967, more still after passage of the July 30, 1980 Basic Law, declaring "Jerusalem, complete and united, is the capital of Israel."
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Jun 23 2010
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A Campaign To Divest From Mideast Apartheid |
Last week, the group Jewish Voice For Peace kicked off a campaign to divest from Israel's Occupation of the Palestinian territories. Their goal is to convince TIAA-CREF to stop investing in companies that profit from the Occupation, such as Motorola and Caterpillar. Like the South African anti-apartheid divestment campaign on the 1980s, supporters of this recent movement believe that public pressure is an effective way to stop the human rights abuses and bring peace to the Mideast. Read More | Originally published in BlackCommentator.com.Related: Labor and Community Picket Israeli Zim Line Ship (pictured) | Chicagoan gives chilling eyewitness account of Israeli assault on Gaza aid flotilla
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Jun 15 2010
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Col Wright Demands Sherman Arrest Her, For Surviving Israeli Attack on Flotilla |
Col. Wright challenges Representative Sherman, who called for executions of humanitarian activists who survived the Israeli attack on the Gaza aid flotilla."What Congressman Sherman said was wrong," declared former career army officer and ambassador Colonel Ann Wright (US Army ret.). The colonel, who resigned from the foreign service in protest on the eve of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, was one of 700 humanitarian activists forcibly removed by Israeli commandos from the Mavi Marmara one of the Turkish aid ships making up the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Read More | Video | Related: Al-Awda Responds to Politicians' Attempt to Silence Gaza Flotilla Survivors
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Jun 10 2010
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Tristan Anderson Returns to California |
After more than a year in a Tel Aviv hospital, Bay Area activist and photo-journalist Tristan Anderson has returned home to California. Tristan was critically injured when he was shot in the head at close range with a metal high-velocity tear gas canister at the Israeli Separation Wall on March 13, 2009, while taking photos following a demonstration against the apartheid wall in the West Bank village of Ni'lin.
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Jun 09 2010
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The Hard-Line on Grocery Items |
What do chocolate, cookies, A4 paper, potato chips, cumin, toys, jelly, nuts, dried fruit, nutmeg, and goats have in common?
It's a tricky one. If you're a moderate, they have absolutely nothing in common. But if you are a hard-line Israeli politician, they are all potentially dangerous goods that could threaten Israel's security.
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Jun 08 2010
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Candle Light Vigil for Freedom Flotilla is met by Counter Protest |
The Houston Israeli Consulate is in a very nondescript gray metallic office building at the corner of Weslayan and highway 59. While it is a weird location to host a protest in that it is totally unclear that the office building contains a consulate, it at least is in a high traffic area, as Weslayan is a major north/south streets on the west side of town, and because one block north of the office building is an Edwards Movie Theater with 24 screens. I had seen hints on facebook that right wing and pro-Israel groups were aware of the candlelight vigil planned by the Houston Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine (HCJPP), and were planning to be there as well. When I walked down Weslayan to the consulate I was pleased to see probably 20 or 25 people were there, I was also sort of surprised that there were a dozen or so folks with Israeli flags on the west side of Weslayan. [Full article with photos] More Solidarity Coverage: Twin Cities | Chicago | Boston | Portland | June 6 Roundup | May 30 Roundup
Related: Gaza On My Mind: A Middle-Aged Mom's Unlikely Journey From Apathy to Action
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Jun 01 2010
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Demonstration against Israeli attack on "Freedom Flotilla" |
Israel launched an attack on six-ship flotilla seeking to break siege of Gaza. The flotilla was in International waters and Israelis fired first shots. || Updates: MV Rachel Corrie will try again || Reposting of Human Rights Newsletter with worldwide reactions by Mazin Qumsiyeh. || YouTube of the event || Bill Perry's Facebook photo album (One doesn't have to be a member of Facebook to view photo albums).
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Jun 01 2010
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Houston Palestine Film Festival wraps up fourth year |
The Houston Palestine Film Festival is proud to bring Houston another year of great films and thoughtful discussion with its 4th annual film festival. The unprecedented success of 2009’s festival program resulted in HPFF winning the Houston Press Best of Houston award for Best Film Festival! HIMC Feature on the film festival
By RoB published to the open publishing newswire:HPFF hosted a kickoff party on the roof of Khon's in Midtown featuring music, breakdancing, dabke traditional palestinian dance, food and art.
On Friday the films theme was Gaza; including Gaza Winter, which revisited "Operation Cast Lead" where Israel attacked the people of Gaza killing more that 1400 people. The screening was followed by a talk by the activist and artist M1 of hip hop group Dead Prez, about his participation in the Viva Palestina caravan to Gaza. His talk focused on the very serious challenges the caravanistas faced from the Egyptian police state, the eventual arrival in Gaza, the terrible conditions that Gazans have to live under, as well as political opportunism by some of the leadership of the Viva Palestina Caravan. He told one story of getting to meet up with one of the members of Palestinian Rapperz, a Gazan hip hop crew, and traveling to the apartment where the Gazan used to live, and where an Israeli missile had come though the window striking and killing his father during Operation Cast Lead. [read full article with photos]
Related: Music Producers Discussing the Call for a Boycott of Israel
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May 31 2010
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Israelis Attack Gaza Humanitarian Sea Convoy; At Least 16 Dead, Chicagoan Missing |
From the Newswire: "Solidarity activists aboard one of six relief vessels traveling to Gaza [by sea] with humanitarian aid report that they have been attacked by Israeli forces, with three aid workers killed and more than 50 injured, according to live updates from the flotilla. "[P]eople aboard the Mavi Marmara, a Turkish ship with hundreds of aid workers and activists aboard, report.. that they have been attacked. At least three aboard one ship have been killed and dozens more wounded, including at least one European Parliament member…Midwest U.S. activists have been unable to reach Chicagoan Fatima Mohammadi, traveling aboard the Mavi Marmara." Read More
Additional Coverage: Watch Live Stream of Commando Attack | Witness Gaza | Gaza Freedom March | Free Palestine Digital Ship
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May 15 2010
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Houston Palestine Film Festival at Rice Cinema and Museum of Fine Arts |
The Houston Palestine Film Festival is proud to bring Houston another year of great films and thoughtful discussion with its 4th annual film festival. The unprecedented success of 2009’s festival program resulted in HPFF winning the Houston Press Best of Houston award for Best Film Festival!
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May 09 2010
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Rabbi Michael Lerner's Home Attacked by Right Wing Zionists |
Following a week of hate mail directed at Rabbi Lerner and the staff of Tikkun magazine, the rabbi's home was vandalized on May third. The attack was apparently prompted by Tikkun's announcement that they will give an award to Judge Richard Goldstone because of his courage in standing up for human rights in Palestine/Israel. A bumper sticker affixed on property at Rabbi Lerner's home read "fight terror--support Israel". On it was a caricature of Judge Goldstone, whose UN report on Israel's human rights violations in its attack on Gaza last year has been denounced as pro-terrorism by right wingers in Israel and the U.S. Read more | Tikkun Magazine
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May 03 2010
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Boston Activists Disrupt Israeli Propaganda Event at the Museum of Science |
Boston, MA, May 3, 2010 – Local activists protested the so-called “Israeli Innovation Weekend” (IIW) at the Museum of Science in Boston through multiple, disparate actions on Sunday. IIW’s sponsors, including the Consulate General of Israel to New England, were left flummoxed by the activists’ efforts and largely unable to prevent their successful, multi-pronged disruption of the event.Protesters targeted IIW because it was part of a state-sponsored campaign to “greenwash” Israel’s discriminatory, apartheid regime and atrocious human rights record. IIW was officially sponsored by the Israeli Consulate, which also played a major role in funding and planning the event; nearly half of IIW’s steering committee was composed of Consulate staff and the Consulate was one of the top donors. READ MORE | VIDEO: "Israeli Technologies of Apartheid"
RELATED: 15 Arrested in Protest, Lockdown at Caterpillar, "Israel's Weapon of Choice"