Fault Lines - 100 Days of Resistance - 15 Oct 09- Part 1
100 days since the coup detat that ousted Manuel Zelaya, Fault Lines travels to Honduras to look at polarisation and power in the Americas, and finds resistance and repression in the streets.
Viva Palestina US Crosses Into Gaza through Rafah - Short Speech By George Galloway
At approximately 1820GMT on July 15 2009, the Viva Palestina US Convoy finally crossed into Gaza from the Rafah Crossing in Egypt. Headed up by the British Member of Parliament, George Galloway as well as former Congresswoman Cynthia Mckinney, the convoy was due to bring over US$1million of AID and humanitarian assistance into the besieged Gaza Strip. Due to problems created by the Mobarak Regime in Egypt they were finally only able to cross with half of that amount of aid. This recording was recorded live as they entered Gaza, and has a short speech by George Galloway where he explains the situation and introduces that there will soon be a Viva Palestina Venezuala. Broadcast on PressTV at approximately 1820GMT on July 15, 2009.
OCHA/UNRWA Gaza Film January 2009
The UN faces a monumental task in Gaza in the aftermath of the devastating 22 day long war that ended with two fragile ceasefires on the 18th of January.
Gambling with Conflict: How Settlers Control Israeli Policy
David J.'s latest Video
This video was produced for Mondoweiss (www.philipweiss.org) after being nixed by the editorial authorities at The Daily Beast. A disturbing look at the connections of one American casino tycoon who sends millions to support the illegal settlements in the West Bank, this video report unveils the raw racism of the settler movement who is dragging Israel into further conflict. Frankness, honesty, and the resultant humor abound in this 5 minute short. Please forward widely. Thanks for your continued viewership and support! We are currently working on a centralized website on which all our reports will be hosted. Best, David
Protesters Disrupt Senate Hearing on Health Care
C-Span Video
At the start of a Senate Finance Committee hearing on health care financing several nurses stood to protest their exclusion from the witness table as supporters of government-run health care programs. Several others in the audience then spoke out in favor of a single-payer system before being removed from the hearing room.
April 30: 61 arrested at White House Guantanamo Protest
61 Americans, dressed in the orange jumpsuits and black hoods that have become the symbol of Guantanamo detainees, were arrested in front of the White House in a nonviolent demonstration this afternoon.
Greed - National TV Ad for the Employee Free Choice Act
Jesse Rosenfeld speaks to representatives of the Arab Israeli community about the 2009 Israeli elections. Video produced by David Jacobus for Rel News Network.
Armed and Dangerous: Weapons Transfers to Israel during the Bush Administration
Has peace in the Middle East become nothing more than a pipe dream? As Bob Simon reports, a growing number of Israelis and Palestinians feel that a two-state solution is no longer possible.
Gaza 2009: We Will Never Forget
Montage documenting the genocide commited by Isreal in 'Operation Cast Lead'.
Adam Kokesh:" I've Got a Shoe for Bush!"
On Monday, Jan. 19, 2009, hundreds of antiwar activists expressed their outrage over President George W. Bush's eight warmongering, economically disastrous, torture approving and lawbreaking years in the Oval Office (2001-2009). The good riddance to Bush rally was held at DuPont Circle, in Washington, D.C. Adam Kokesh of the' Iraq Veterans Against the War' was one of the speakers at the event. He said: 'Occupation is a crime...and Ive got a shoe for Bush!' After the speeches, the protesters marched to the White House. Once there, they tossed shoes and combat boots at the White House and insisted: 'Arrest Bush!' For background, see: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/nod... and http://shoebush.org/ and http://arrestbush2009.com/.
Israeli TV airs Gaza doctor's pleas after children killed
This video has English subtitles. Double click to open video on Youtube, then click 'more info' for instruction.
SO MUCH FOR PRAYER
This is a 2 minute film I have made. Please take a look, this is what a child's life is worth today.
Israel Attacks Gaza, Silence from Mainstream Media about Israeli Violations of International Law
http://www.youtube.com/user/representativepress
Israelis Soldiers refuse to serve in Gaza
srael Social TV presents: Israelis Soldiers refuse to serve in Gaza!
Daily Show Gaza excerpt January 5, 2009: Strip Maul
Israel gets their bombing in before the January 20th hope and change deadline.
(watch the full show for more Jon Stewart on Gaza)
Norwegian doctor in Gaza Decries Israeli Attacks
Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor in Gaza, tells Sky News that the number of civilians injured and killed in Gaza proves that Israel is deliberately attacking the population.
Thousands of Israelis protest against the war in Gaza
Featured Video: Jews That Lived In Palestine Tell Their Story
Featured Video: Israeli Conscientious Objectors, Shministim
Send letter www.december18th.org
Support Israel's young conscientious objectors. WWW.December18th.ORG Shministim say why they refuse to serve in an army that occupies the Palestinians.
Featured Video: Bush Shoe Incident in Iraq {CNN}
Featured Video: ABC News Feature on Cuban 5
ABC News 12/11/2008. New Leaders Hold Fate of Cuban 5. Could President-Elect Obama and Raul Castro improve U.S._Cuban relations?
Real News Network: US war resister is granted stay of deportation
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Featured Video: Alaska Women Reject Palin rally-Anchorage Alaska
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Featured Video: Palin has WORSE than a Pastor Problem! She’s Herself Preached Controversy!
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Featured Video: Police Sieze Journalists Notes About RNC Protest Plans
More at http://www.theuptake.org
A trio of journalists who have a track record of documenting police abuse at political conventions were stopped and searched during the early morning hours in Minneapolis. Police took their video equipment, cell phones, hard drive and notes about protests planned for next week's Republican National Convention. No charges have been filed against the three, according to Mineapolis police spokesman Sgt. William Palmer. Video by Ken Avidor
Police Detain Journalists-Amy Goodman Jumps Fence To Question Cops
More at http://www.theuptake.org
Sat. Aug 30, 2008. Saint Paul, MN Police Department raids a home at 591 Iglehart Avenue at gunpoint. The journalists include a contributing photojournalist with "Democracy Now", whose host Amy Goodman appears in this clip jumping a fence to question police officers.
This is part of a series of police actions on the eve of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.
After several hours, all those detained were released. No arrests. No property was seized as result of the search warrant. The clip ends with an interview with homeowner Mike Whalen. At the start of the clip, a neighbor shouts to the media and onlookers that we could all come into her backyard to see the detained people held in the adjacent backyard.
Video by Chuck Tomlinson
Featured Video: Palestian Authority raids Palestinian orphange
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Featured Video: No ‘good guys’ in Georgia conflict
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Featured Video: Fox News cuts American child for thanking Russian troops
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Featured Video: Now The People Have Awoken Exploring Venezuela’s Revolution
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Featured Video: Thousands at funeral of boy shot in West Bank protest
Palestinian mourners carry the body of Ahmed Mussa, 10 years old, who was fatally shot by Israeli troops after protests against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Nilin . Thousands marched through the occupied West Bank in the funeral. Emad Bornat.
Featured Video: Combat Paper, Scene from “Paper Over Iraq”
Featured Video: Alternatives to Impeachment?
House Judiciary Committee hearing on executive power and its constitutional limitation, July 25, 2008. Rep. Bobby Scott, D-VA and member of the Committee asks what are the alternatives to impeachment? Constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein, and former representatives Bob Barr and Elizabeth Holtzman respond.
Featured Video: Iraqi Freedom – TV advertisement
Featured Video: John McCain’s Neverending War
Featured Video: UN Inspector Scott Ritter: Fools would Bomb Iran
Featured Video: Truth and Truthiness episode 4
Featured Video: The Rev. Billy on the Ithaca Commons
Rev Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir exorcise the demon Monsanto from the Cornell Ag School while visiting the Ithaca Commons on April 20, 2008
Featured Video: The Rev. Billy
Rev Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir exorcise a Starbucks cash register, sending money back to Ethopia coffee farmers. Starbucks is blocking Ethiopians from trademarking specialty coffee names, where a trademark could help them negotiate a higher sale price.
Featured Video: An Interview with Riad Hamad
Riad Hamad is a non-violent activist in Austin, Texas who was found drowned, bound with duct tape, in Lady Bird Lake near Austin, TX. This interview produced bt Free Speech TV gives the context of the FBI's harassment of Mr. Hamad for his charity work helping Palestinians. It brings into focus who this man is and why we should remember and honor him, counters the lies being propagated that he supports violence and terrorism. It is hard to fathom that was a suicide. But even if it was, the Bush administration and its right-wing allies are still implicated.
The Israel Lobby (Marije Meerman, VPRO Backlight 2007)
For many years now the American foreign policy has been characterized by the strong tie between the United States and Israel. Does the United States in fact keep Israel on its feet? And how long will it continue to do so? In March 2006 the American political scientists John Mearsheimer (University of Chicago) and Steve Walt (Harvard) published the controversial article 'The Israel Lobby and US foreign policy'. In it they state that it is not, or no longer, expedient for the US to support and protect present-day Israel.
ISRAEL: Afshin Rattansi talks to Hampshire College
http://socialistworker.org/2009/03/31/tribute-to-an-antiwar-activist
OBITUARY: PETER DEMOTT
Tribute to an antiwar activist
March 31, 2009
Peter DeMott
ON TUESDAY, March 17, antiwar and social justice activists in Ithaca, N.Y., gathered to watch the documentary film The Trial of the St. Patrick’s Four.
The film was screened to mark the sixth anniversary of an action of civil disobedience by four Ithaca Catholic Workers at an army recruiting [...]
The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel launched a boycott in NYC of Motorolla in front of the company’s corporate office in Brooklyn on Monday, March 30. This short excerpt from Democracy Now! includes a statement by Ryvka Bar Zoharon on the Motorolla boycott. It is preceded by footage from [...]
Calling all who want to fight for LGBTQ rights!!!
Did you know that the earliest gay rights organizations started in Germany in the 1890’s? That gay rights organizations have been organizing I the United States since the McCarthy-era? That the issue of LGBTQ rights entered the world stage on June 28, 1969 when police raided the [...]
The next Peace Potluck will be Saturday, April 4 at the Perry City Meeting House on Route 227 in Perry City. Dish to pass at 5:30; discussion 7:00 – 9:00. Come to either or both. For more information, call Donna at (607) 546 5472.
This month we will be led in song by Gary Kline. Come [...]
Blood on the Flag: Local Civil Disobedience
April 1, 7 pm
Friends 309, Ithaca College
The event “Blood on the Flag: Local Civil Disobedience” will present several short films and commentaries about anti-war civil disobedience by Ithacans on Wednesday, April 1, 7 pm, in Friends 309, Ithaca College during the Finger Lakes Environment Film Festival.
Our reflections on civil [...]
7-9pm Thursday, 4/2 Williams 218, Ithaca College
To be screened as part of the Finger Lake Environmental Film Festival, Drying Up Palestine is a documentary film by Rima Essa and Peter Snowdon, produced by Gourna Films for House of Water and Environment (Ramallah). “Drying Up Palestine is a portrait of the stresses and strains imposed on [...]
8-10pm Mon, 3/30 Williams 221, Ithaca College
Jennifer D. Klein will discuss her experiences teaching poetry at An-Najah University in the West Bank, Palestine, and share the work of both her Palestinian and American students. This presentation will explore the realities of Palestinian life under occupation, and show how poetry can promote a creative space for [...]
Who pays for single-payer?
Who would be covered?
Who would be denied?
Why is this “off the table”?
Who is in support of it?
WHAT: Discussion on Single-Payer Healthcare…with guest speakers Dr. William Klepack, of Dryden Family Practice, and Rebecca Elgie, of The Tompkins County Healthcare Taskforce.
WHEN: This Friday, March 27th, noon
WHERE: TC3 Student Center
Find out [...]
Video by Cris McConkey
The International Socialist Organization (ISO) organized a bus and a van for students and community from Ithaca to Washington, D.C. for the March 21, 2009 March on the Pentagon organized nationally by the A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition.
We’re back! All the seats were filled on the Ithaca bus, so we also rented a van. Here are some photos, videos, and accounts, mostly hightlinghting the Ithaca contingent.
We’re back! All the seats were filled on the Ithaca bus, so we also rented a van. Here are some photos, videos, and accounts, mostly hightlinghting the Ithaca contingent:
New! Lisa uploaded a slide show; Cris uploaded video of rally speakers.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-oe-ehrenreich15-2009mar15,0,4405950.story
From the Los Angeles Times
Opinion
Zionism is the problem
The Zionist ideal of a Jewish state is keeping Israelis and Palestinians from living in peace.
By Ben Ehrenreich
March 15, 2009
It’s hard to imagine now, but in 1944, six years after Kristallnacht, Lessing J. Rosenwald, president of the American Council for Judaism, felt comfortable equating the Zionist ideal of [...]
Published March 17, 2009 in the Ithaca Journal There is a guest book for comments on the Journa;’s web site.
PETER JOHN DE MOTT
Jan. 6, 1947 – Feb. 19, 2009
Peter De Mott, 62, loving father, husband, son, uncle, friend, peace activist and Catholic Worker, died after a work related accident, February 19, 2009. He is survived [...]
PRESS RELEASE 3/17/09
For Immediate Release
Contact: Malachy Kilbride, 202-841-2230; Robby Diesu, 631-241-5966
Peace Activists Arrested while Confronting the War Machine
Group dedicated to nonviolent action urge Secretary Gates to stop pursuing war against Afghanistan and Iraq
ARLINGTON, VA – Seven peace activists were arrested this morning as they attempted to meet with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates at [...]
American Tristan Anderson shot by Israeli Defense Forces
03/13/09 Seán Kinane
WMNF Evening News Friday Listen to this entire show:
An American is in critical condition with life-threatening wounds after being shot in the head today by a member of the Israeli Defense Forces, or IDF. Tristan Anderson, from California, is in a Tel-Aviv hospital after being [...]
Let’s organize local actions: on campus, in the community, at the offices of our Congressional Representatives. And in D.C. on the 21st.
Dear AATW Friends–
As you may have already heard, Tristan Anderson, an American citizen, was severely wounded at a demonstration in Ni’alin on Friday. You can see video and read testimony at www.awalls.org [...]
President Manuel Zelaya, after over eighty days in exile, has returned to Honduras. He reported the news in an interview with Canal 36, a Honduran television network. Zelaya has called for the increasingly strong resistance movement to converge at the United Nations building in Tegucigalpa. The coup regime denies that Zelaya is
in Honduras and has repeatedly stated that Zelaya would be arrested upon return to Honduras. Visit the SOA Watch web site at www.SOAW.org for updates.
Immediately cease all violent repression of indigenous protests and lift the State of Emergency
Initiate an impartial investigation into the events of June 5 at the Devil's Curve near Bagua Chica
Repeal the Free Trade Laws that allow oil, logging, and agricultural corporations easy entry into indigenous territories
Respect indigenous peoples' constitutionally guaranteed rights to self-determination, to their ancestral territories, and to prior consultation
Immediately drop all legal charges against indigenous leaders in order to be able to enter into good faith process of dialogue with indigenous peoples to resolve this conflict
Are your tax dollars being used
to fund the terrible devastation
we experienced in Gaza?
Here are 3 simple steps that you can do to support the oppressed in Palestine:
Please call 202-540-3000 This is the Obama Biden transition team telephone number and let them know your thoughts on the conflict. Below is a suggested discussion.
Go to www.change.gov, (Obama-Biden website) register yourself, and voice your opinion on the conflict on the foreign policy tab. (below is a suggested discussion)
As the war in Iraq changes from an invasion to a long-term occupation, the President no longer has Congressional authorization for the war. That means that Gov. Paterson is not required to accept the federalization of members of the New York State National Guard to serve in Iraq. Please join PANYS and our allies in a campaign to keep the New York Guard at home where they belong! For more information, click
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To sign an on-line petition, click here. Or download a petition here.
To go to the Save the Guard campaign web site, click here.
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Israel gets their bombing in before the January 20th hope and change deadline.
(watch the full show for more Jon Stewart on Gaza)
ABC News 12/11/2008. New Leaders Hold Fate of Cuban 5. Could President-Elect Obama and Raul Castro improve U.S._Cuban relations?
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Riad Hamad is a non-violent activist in Austin, Texas who was found drowned, bound with duct tape, in Lady Bird Lake near Austin, TX. This interview produced bt Free Speech TV gives the context of the FBI's harassment of Mr. Hamad for his charity work helping Palestinians. It brings into focus who this man is and why we should remember and honor him, counters the lies being propagated that he supports violence and terrorism. It is hard to fathom that was a suicide. But even if it was, the Bush administration and its right-wing allies are still implicated.
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click
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download a petition here.
Zionism is the problem: The Zionist ideal of a Jewish state is keeping Israelis and Palestinians from living in peace
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-oe-ehrenreich15-2009mar15,0,4405950.story
From the Los Angeles Times
Opinion
Zionism is the problem
The Zionist ideal of a Jewish state is keeping Israelis and Palestinians from living in peace.
By Ben Ehrenreich
March 15, 2009
It’s hard to imagine now, but in 1944, six years after Kristallnacht, Lessing J. Rosenwald, president of the American Council for Judaism, felt comfortable equating the Zionist ideal of [...]