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Dan Burgevin, back from Cuba with Pastors for Peace

August 12th, 2009 · No Comments

I am back from my third trip with pastors for peace to our neighbor Cuba. Every time I have gone, the place and people there get a little deeper into my consciousness. We visit new facilities or see a different service that the revolution has provided for the people and I’m further convinced about [...]

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New video from David J: Gambling with Conflict: How Settlers Control Israeli Policy

June 5th, 2009 · No Comments

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 [...]

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Tags: Middle East · Video

David J’s video from the West Bank

May 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

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

How I Got Gassed in the West Bank
by [...]

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Tags: Middle East · Reports · Video

Jimmy Massey documentary tour continues …

May 15th, 2009 · No Comments

[ May 27, 2009 to June 6, 2009. ] Despite the difficulties with parking for an event downtown just after the Ithaca Festival parade, 50 people attended the screening and discussion. If you missed the Ithaca screening, you still can see it in Oneonata (May 29), Corning (June 1), Cortland (June 4), Binghamton (June 5), or other locations in the Mohawk Valley and Sugerties scroll down for schedule).

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Tags: Commentary-Analysis (outside) · Events · Press releases · Reports

Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba slated for this summer

April 4th, 2009 · No Comments

By Dan Burgevin
Last year’s Caravan to Cuba saw a renewed determination to continue the people to people foreign policy and diplomacy of Pastors for Peace. We did not avoid harassment by the US customs. Thirty-one computers were confiscated at the border as we entered Mexico. Rather than allow for the entire caravan and the rest [...]

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Slideshows from DC 3/21/09 march on Pentgon

March 29th, 2009 · No Comments

mikehear2000's photostream (Flickr)
mikehear2000’s photostream (Flickr)
confused cop
lduggan67’s photostream

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Tags: Pentagon DC 3-21-09 · Uncategorized

Speakers at the Rally

March 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Here are a few of the speakers at the rally:

ann wright & medea benjamin thumbnail Ann Wright & Medea Benjamin
2:08
thumnail CAN speaker Pete Rhomberg, Campus Antiwar Network
1:50
thumbnail Ferner Michael Ferner, Veterans for Peace
4:11
marty webster Marty Webster, VVAW
3:39
Margaret Stevens and Matthew Chiroux Margaret Stevens and Matthew Chiroux, IVAW
3:29
Pricilla Moreno Priscilla Moreno, student activist
1:19
Frances Vallar Thumbnail Frances Vallar, student activist
2:08
Jafar Jafari thumbnail Jafar Jafari, Nat’l Council Arab Americans
1:52
Hodari Abdul-Ali thimbnail Hodari Abdul-Ali, Muslim Alliance North America
3:41
Ibrahim Abdil-Mu'id Ramey thumbnail Ibrahim Abdil-Mu’id Ramey, Muslim American Society (MAS)
1:29
Son of Nun thumbnail Son of Nun
3:47

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Tags: Pentagon DC 3-21-09 · Reports

Coffin Drops

March 26th, 2009 · No Comments

Here are two videos I found on youtube of the coffin drops:
Here are two videos I found on youtube of the coffin drops:

This post was submitted by Cris.

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Tags: Pentagon DC 3-21-09

Video: Pentagon March 3-21-09 Ithaca Contingent

March 23rd, 2009 · No Comments


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.

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Tags: Media · Pentagon DC 3-21-09 · Video

March 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off

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.

Click HERE to post and upload photos

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Tags: Pentagon DC 3-21-09

Leslie Schultz interviewed on camera by AP

March 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

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David J. reports on IDF’s shooting of Tristan Anderson

March 16th, 2009 · No Comments

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 [...]

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Tags: Middle East · Reports

Suddenly Bombs Started Falling —A Brief Report From Inside Gaza

January 17th, 2009 · No Comments

January 17, 2009 – 1:45 am. by Audrey Stewart (formerly of Ithaca, NY) and Kathy Kelly.
We arrived inside Gaza at 5pm last night. We were met by Anees, a 23 year old Gazan. He has guided us around the community. When we first came in tonight, kids were playing soccer in the [...]

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From Cris

January 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Everyone seems to think that this was the most energetic march ever. Being in the streets in solidarity with Arab-American and Muslim communities deeply concerned with Palestine was inspiring. I think these marches help ground us.

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Tags: Let Gaza Live DC Jan 10, 2009

Free Gaza! Video from D.C. March & Rally

January 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Washington DC protest of the Israeli invasion and occupation of Palestine January 10, 2009
Filmed by Paul Hubbard www.socialistworker.org

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Ilana’s Photos

January 12th, 2009 · No Comments

http://tompkinsagainstwar.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=slideshow.Slideshow&g2_itemId=380
Click on link for slide show. Change resolution to 640 x 640 and set timing. Later, I’ll try to embed.

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We Want Change!

January 11th, 2009 · No Comments

Please post your accounts, reflections, and images from the January 10 Let Gaza Live March and rally here.
Dear Friends,
Today a bus load of us are traveling all day to join the thousands of Americans who will rally and march on Washington D.C. in the LET GAZA LIVE March.
This is our effort to show our government, [...]

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Ithaca, NY Protest against the Israeli War on Gaza

December 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments

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Dec. 30th, 2009
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 [...]

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Tags: Gaza · Media · News · Reports · Video

[starhawk] Republican National Convention–Convergence Center Raided

August 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment

FLOOD THE MAYORS’ OFFICES ASAP

St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman
651-266-8510
Minneapolis Mayor RT Rybak
(612) 673-2100
(612) 673-3000 outside Minneapolis

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Tags: RNC/DNC · Reports · Urgent Actions

Updated Info on activist arrests (RNC)

August 30th, 2008 · No Comments

From an activist in NYC getting reports as they come in:
I know a lot of people have heard that last night the convergence space in St Paul was raided and that today a series of houses were raided and some organizers were picked off the street and arrested. There is a lot of information to [...]

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Tags: Reports