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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: 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
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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
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Ithaca welcomes the walkers for a nuclear free future. Ithaca Unitarian Church, March 30, 2010.
The peace walkers are passing through the Six Nation Native American Territories and NY State, walking to the UN by May 2 for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Conference of 190 Countries. They [...]
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New York Green Fest 2009, Aug. 7-9, Alfred, NY. Forum on Sustainable Energy, Part 1: Musical welcoming by the Lucky Pluckers and introduction to the solar stage.
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Read more of Josh’s experiences and thoughts in Ithaca, Trumansburg, and beyond on contagiousloveexperiment.wordpress.com.
In mid-July of 2009, Peace Now Ithaca, a local group in the Fingerlakes rgion of upstate New York that had organized a successful campaign to designate Ithaca a Sanctuary City for war resisters, received word that 21-year old Iraq veteran and [...]
Come celebrate the 50th anniversary of the triumph of the Cuba revolution and 20th Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan
Ithaca has been a host city for the Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan since the 3rd caravan in 1993. That year, mayor Ben Nichols signed a mayoral proclamation designation US-Cuba Freinedship week in the City of Ithaca. Though we have missed some years, the record has been consistent, though the scope of the annual effort has dropped since the early years. Here are some highpoints.
Reese Erlich on the real story of the Buena Vista Social Club, Critical Thinking with Andrew Patner, WFMT, Chicago, March 16, 2009 http://www.wfmt.com/main.taf?p=1,1,41,25,2 [57:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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Citizen Soldier held a press conference June 18, 2009 in Watertown, NY just prior to Specialist Trevor Loope’s appearance before a sanity board at Fort Drum later that morning. Sp/4 Trevor Loope is facing a possible court-martial trial for going AWOL. After returning to base from a combat tour in Afghanistan, he was [...]
Trevor Loope might be be facing a court-marshal proceeding on July 1. Or maybe the proceeding will be delayed. Or maybe (we hope) the charges against him will be dropped and he will be a favorable, non-punitive administrative separation –in effect acknowledging his PTSD and severe depression, and the failure of the [...]
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 [...]
A film about a Marine who refused to continue killing in Iraq premieres in Ithaca tonight. We spoke with Jimmy Massey briefly on the Morning Newswatch, the interview was unusually short because of phone problems. From WHCU Podcasts.
From Mills Creek to Babylon and Back: The Jimmy Massey Story wiill be screened tonight (Thurs., May [...]
Hello all – Please take a moment to watch a video I produced with two North American journalists in Israel. I’m currently filming, producing, and editing news shorts from the Middle East and hope to be releasing more on a regular basis. Please distribute the link widely! http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-21/how-i-got-gassed-in-the-west-bank/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsC2
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Dr. Ismail Mehr, an anesthesiologist and head of the department at St. James Hospital in Hornell, NY, organized and led a medical relief mission in Gaza just days following the attacks in Gaza last December and January which left upwards of 1,400-1,500 Palestinians dead and many more wounded, homeless, and [...]
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.
Peter De Mott was welcomed by enthusiasic friends and family at Ithaca’s Southside Community Center on the occasion of his release from prison having served his time for spilling his own blood at the army recruitment center in Lansing, NY, on St. Patricks’ Day 2003, on the eve of the U.S. assault on Iraq. He was joined by Clare Grady, Theresa Grady, and Danny Burns.
Video by Danny Burns
December 29, 2008 – As part of a group of 60 people from the Atlantic Life Community, three mothers, Heidi Schloegel, Ellen Grady, and Clare Grady, were arrested outside the Israeli embassy. The group was petitioning embassy officials for an end to Israeli air strikes on Gaza. The three approached the embassy [...]
WENY-TV (Elmira, channel 36) story by Emma Wright
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Ithaca Journal, January 3, 2009
Ithacans protest America’s financial support of Israel
By Tim Ashmore
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ITHACA — Cold weather and lingering holiday apathy were no match for some politically [...]
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Thirty people of Ithaca NY, including children gathered on the main artery Rt. 13, to protest the Israeli attacks on Gaza, holding banners as thousands of cars passed during rush hour in frigid weather for hours this afternoon. Many passed honking in support of the [...]
CNN’s Take on Bush Shoe Incident, with additional video of Bush talking about it.
An Iraqi journalist threw two shoes at President George W. Bush at a News Conference during his surprise visit to Iraq today. The president ducked and the size 10’s missed. Among Muslims, throwing shoes at someone, or sitting so that the bottom [...]
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Originally planned as a protest against Bank of America on the Ithaca Commons, students & community members rallied Friday, December 12 in celebration of the victory by the 200 Republic Windows and Doors workers who had been occuping the factory in Chicago over Republic’s and BoA’s failure to live up to contract [...]
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
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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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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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Cuba Night: Pastors for Peace 20th Caravan to Cuba at the Unitarian Church July 8
Come celebrate the 50th anniversary of the triumph of the Cuba revolution and 20th Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan
Ithaca has been a host city for the Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan since the 3rd caravan in 1993. That year, mayor Ben Nichols signed a mayoral proclamation designation US-Cuba Freinedship week in the City of Ithaca. Though we have missed some years, the record has been consistent, though the scope of the annual effort has dropped since the early years. Here are some highpoints.