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April 28, 2010 — Noam Chomsky Speaks at Brown University Filmed by Paul Hubbard on 4-20-10
Additional camera – Robert Malin
Apartheid
The Wall/Fence in Bil’in: 2005-2010 by Eileen Fleming
by Eileen Fleming
Featured Writer
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April 24, 2010
“They’re building a wall. A wall to keep distant the terrible sound of the houses that crumble and the children that die. A wall to keep separate the truth from the lie.” — Dave Rovics, “They’re Building a Wall”
The fifth Bil’in International Conference “on popular resistance to network and strategize in support to end the Israeli occupation and free Palestine” concluded on Friday, April 23rd with five demonstrators arrested and one Israeli activist taking a direct hit into the forehead which fractured his skull after Israeli soldiers shot him with a tear gas projectile.
Earth Day in Israel: Apartheid Showing Through the Greenwash By Stephanie Westbrook
by Stephanie Westbrook
Guest Writer
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April 23, 2010
On April 22, as part of the global Earth Day celebrations, homes, offices and public buildings in 14 Israeli cities turned out the lights for one hour in an effort to “increase awareness of the vital need to reduce energy consumption.” The Earth Day celebrations included scenes of green fields, wind generators and rainbows projected on the walls of the Old City in Jerusalem, the Green Globes Award ceremony recognizing “outstanding contributions to promote the environment” and a concert in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv powered by generators running on vegetable oil as well as volunteers on 48 bikes pedaling away to produce electricity.
Boycott, Divest From, and Sanction Israel?: A Debate on BDS
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Democracy Now!
March 4, 2010
In 2005, a coalition of Palestinian civil society groups called for people all over the world to engage in a nonviolent campaign to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel until it complies with international law. The call was inspired by the international boycott and divestment initiatives applied to South Africa in the struggle to abolish apartheid. We host a debate between Omar Barghouti, a founding member of the BDS campaign and a Palestinian human rights activist and commentator, and Rabbi Arthur Waskow, a longtime antiwar and civil rights activist who is the founder and director of the Shalom Center. [includes rush transcript]
Chomsky tells Ynet Israel should not be defined as ‘Jewish state’ + Israel Is an Apartheid State
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‘Israel Apartheid Week’ events commence
by Yitzhak Benhorin
Ynetnews
03.04.10, 01:14
Leftist, Muslim groups launch campaign equating Israel to apartheid regime in South Africa. Jewish intellectual Noam Chomsky tells Ynet Israel should not be defined as ‘Jewish state’. Israeli diplomats: Activity no cause for alarm
WASHINGTON – Events marking “Israel Apartheid Week” have commenced on campuses all over the world, including in Canada, and to a lesser extent in the United States.
During the course of the week organizers will be distributing material depicting Israel as an apartheid state and call on the international community to impose sanctions against it.
US Congressman Brian Baird wants to end the blockade in Gaza + Gaza Black Ribbon Campaign + UN envoy: Gaza is an open-air prison
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Note: Congressman Baird is not seeking re-election.
RTAmerica
March 02, 2010
Amid an escalating humanitarian situation Gaza, U.S. Rep. Brian Baird (D-WA) is calling on the United States to break Israel’s blockade to deliver aid relief to the Palestinians living in the strip. Baird says the US needs to show Israel it is serious about resolving the Palestinian crisis – even if it means threatening to withhold money or military aid from its biggest ally. The Democratic congressman’s efforts to lift the Israeli blockade on Gaza are being met with stiff resistance in America. Baird discusses the taboo against questioning US support for Israel in US politics, as well as the need to begin negotiating with Hamas to help resolve the conflict.
A lesson from Seattle for Copenhagen: Vigorous Activism Can Defeat the Denialists by Patrick Bond
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Crossposted with permission from www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/
by Patrick Bond
Socialist Project | The Bullet
December 4, 2009
Preparations for the December 7-18 Copenhagen climate summit are going as expected, including a rare sighting of the African elites’ stiffened spines. That’s a great development (maybe decisive), more about that below.
While activists help raise the temperature on the streets outside the Bella Centre on December 12, 13 and 16, inside we will see global North elites defensively armed with pathetic non-binding carbon emissions cuts (U.S. President Barack Obama’s promise is a mere 4% below 1990 levels) and carbon trading, but without offering the money to repay the North’s ecological debt to the global South.
The first and third of these are lamentable enough, the second is the most serious diversion from the crucial work of cutting greenhouse gas emissions. A nine-minute film launched on the internet on December 1, The Story of Cap and Trade [watch the film at the end of this article], gives all the ammunition climate activists need to understand and critique emissions trading, and to seek genuine solutions.
Israeli Fencebusters + The Dividing Wall – Israel/Palestine
Israeli activists break down the walls of a settlement which blocks Palestinians from their land.
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http://www.visionontv.net
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