September 23, 2007
Posted by yaman
What would happen if a venue told a group like Rage Against the Machine or Public Enemy that it could not perform unless it allowed the US Military Band to open for it?
I doubt the request would be met with much support, or that any venue would ever impose such restrictions on its performing [...]
Posted by yaman
Hossam is posting frequent updates regarding a huge strike of over 15,000 textile workers at the Ghazl el-Mahallah textile factory in Egypt. According to him, this is the largest textile factory in the Middle East, with over 27,000 workers. The Egyptian government has declared the strike “illegal,” potentially opening the way for a police confrontation [...]
September 20, 2007
Posted by yaman
Four and a half years and 75,000 Iraqi and 3,800 American deaths later, the best thing America has to show for the invasion and occupation of Iraq is this single story, which is turning out to be more about easing a guilty American conscience than it is about helping those whose lives have been irreversibly [...]
September 17, 2007
Posted by yaman
Is it really so surprising that those who support apartheid should be afraid of the Handala, that never-dying symbol of a never-dying Palestine, and of an image of the illegal wall Israel is building in and around the West Bank?
Click on the image for more information.
This is the sculpted pillar that can be found on the bridge at Michigan Avenue in Chicago. All I could think about after seeing this, besides the many other troubling things I encountered
during my visit, was this: really? Are you serious? This genocide is still something we are proud of in America?
And not too far [...]
September 16, 2007
Posted by yaman
Hussein Ibish, above, believes he will single-handedly free Palestine with his American passport.
In his column of September 14, 2007, Hussein Ibish made one telling statement: “Any successful approach to pro-Palestinian advocacy in the United States should therefore emphasize the benefits to the United States, and indeed to Israel, of freedom for the Palestinian people.” [...]
September 8, 2007
Posted by yaman
The first issue is out. Click below to get to the table of contents or to download the PDF.
My articles in this issue are…:
On Parades and Protests
There was a time in American history when protests were not tolerated by those in power. We need only look back at the civil rights era to find [...]
Ibrahim Shikaki, a Visiting Scholar from Palestine, spoke in favor of the bill although he did not feel that it was written from the Palestinian perspective. Shikaki explained that “If this were a Palestinian bill it would have mentioned my grandfather’s land that was stolen from him, or my friend w…
Source: electronicintifada.net
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Israeli soldiers prevent students and others from crossing a checkpoint between their homes and schools on the edge of the West Bank city of Qalqiliya on 17
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For the first time in the University of California history, the UC Berkeley Student Senate has approved a bill to divest from two US companies in response to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and to Israel’s siege and bombardment of the Gaza Strip. The Senate bill directs both the UC…
Congratulations everyone!!
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The document shows that U.S. agents are logging on surreptitiously to exchange messages with suspects, identify a target’s friends or relatives and browse private information such as postings, personal photographs and video clips.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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U.S. troops opened fire on a car in western Baghdad, killing an Iraqi journalist and her husband, a police official said Thursday.
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OH, HELLO. Here’s some good news, after years and years of promoting the necessary destruction of Iraq and Iraqis, all for the purpose of a war that diverted the United States from pressing issues of national security, Tom Friedman has declared the Iraq misadventure to be a success and has officiall…
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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It’s time to rein in the way police and safety officers in New York public schools mistreat students.
Police the police.
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Produced by HuffPost’s Eyes & Ears Citizen Journalism Unit On March 4th, 2010, demonstrators in California and across the country took to the streets to protest massive cuts at all levels of education and government imposed austerity measures.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
(Discussion)Frederick Douglas tells us that power concedes nothing without a demand: Street rebellions force the establishment to yield to the demands of the movement or be faced with an ungovernable, rebellious populace. In short, stopping highway traffic in protest of the dismantling of public education was a…
Source: occupyca.wordpress.com
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