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
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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
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: 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
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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
Aug. 23, 2010 (KILLEEN, TX) – Five peace activists successfully blockaded six buses carrying Fort Hood Soldiers deploying to Iraq outside Fort Hood’s Clarke gate this morning at around 4 a.m. While the activists took the width of Clarke Rd. and slowed the buses to a halt, [...]
The anti-war movement responds to President Obama’s speech
Statement from the ANSWER Coalition
The U.S. cannot “win” the war in Afghanistan. It was losing the war when Barack Obama took office. In March 2009, President Obama ordered another 30,000 troops. Rather than reverse the outcome, the U.S. and NATO effort lost even more ground. Now President Obama [...]
Immediate Release: Saturday, July 11 at 12 Noon
Specialist Trevor Loope, 24, of Austin,. TX who faced a year in prison and a Bad Conduct discharge at Special Court Martial for AWOL was discharged administratively by order of Ft Drum’s Commander, Gen. Michael Oates on Friday, July 10th.
Because Loope possessed an Honorable Discharge from an [...]
Last December, as reported in the Ithaca Journal, it looked like Pte. Trevor Loope was on track for an administrative discharge. AWOL soldier to receive administrative discharge, lawyer says. Instead, Trevor is now facing a “sanity board” where a panel of forensic psychologists will try to divine the state of his mind while [...]
http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20090602/NEWS01/90602033/Planned+Parenthood+to+hold+an+Ithaca+rally+for+slain+MD+Wednesday
Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes will hold an Ithaca rally in memory and support of Dr. George Tiller, the abortion provider who was fatally shot Sunday while attending church in Kansas.
The rally will be held from 4:45-5:45 p.m. Wednesday at the middle pavilion on The Commons.
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).
http://socialistworker.org/2009/04/20/tenure-travesty-in-ithaca
By Troy Pasulka | April 20, 2009
ITHACA, N.Y.–Sixty people gathered April 16 at the Workers’ Center to hear Professor Margo Ramlal-Nankoe describe how she was denied tenure at Ithaca College due to her complaints about sexual harassment and her outspoken opposition to the Israel-U.S. war on Palestinians. She is reaching out to the public for [...]
President Obama has just taken a small first step to change US/Cuba policy. Of course, we support his initiative to lift travel restrictions for Cuban-Americans, and we should express our support but it is most important that we make our voices heard in favor of even stronger measures for reconciliation and normalized relations.
It’s time [...]
You are invited to a screening of the award winning
Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority
A film by Sufyan Omerish and Abdallah Omerish
Thursday, April 16 at 5 pm in G85, Cornell Law School.
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Indian Springs, NV – Late this afternoon, fourteen peace activists were arrested at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada. The arrests occured during a ten day vigil which seeks to raise public awareness of the increasing use of unmanned drones in the war in [...]
Announcing an open forum on “The New Gas Drilling: What Local Governments Can Do”
Women’s Community Building, 100 W. Seneca Street, Ithaca
Presenters:
Dr. William Pammer, Commissioner, Planning and Environmental Management for Sullivan County (Monticello), NY
Dr. Stephen Penningroth, Executive Director, Community Science Institute, Ithaca, NY
Over 2000 Tompkins County land owners, and thousands more in the surrounding Southern Tier, have signed leases to permit Marcellus Shale gas drilling on their property. Many expect to see drilling begin later this year, perhaps as early as summer.
While some welcome the drilling and others dread it, a common concern for all is the protection of our clean water and air, our land, and our quality of life*. **NY State law (Environmental Conservation Article 23) took the ability to regulate most aspects of gas drilling activity away from towns, and gave it to the New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC) instead. This leaves many local legislators and community members wondering just what they can do to protect our critical resources given these constraints. The Sullivan County, NY Drilling Task Force has been working for many months on answering just this question.***
Dr. Pammer will describe the work of the Gas Drilling Task Force in Sullivan County. The group investigated possible impacts and the authority of local municipal governments. Their recently released Task Force Report outlines 21 recommendations that will be presented to their County Legislature. You can see a newspaper story about the report at
http://www.sc-democrat.com/news/002February/20/news.htm and the *full* report on the Sullivan County Division of Planning website: http://www.scgnet.us/index.asp?orgid=610&storyTypeID=&sid=&.
Dr. Penningroth, Biochemist and Toxicologist, directs the Community Science Institute’s state-certified water testing laboratory. The CSI lab monitors water quality in Cayuga Lake and its tributary streams in partnership with citizen volunteers. He believes a reasonable estimate of drinking water that will be contaminated near drilling sites is between 1% and 5%. He will describe why and how to test private water wells so that land owners discover problems and have solid scientific evidence of* **pre-drilling, **baseline water data* should contamination occur. CSI has two information fact sheets on testing drinking water that will soon be available on their website: www.communityscience.org.
This Forum is co-sponsored by: Social Ventures; Ithaca Health Alliance; Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton; Department of City & Regional Planning/Cornell University; Sustainable Tompkins; CRESP Center for Transformative Action; Shaleshock Citizens Action Coalition; Back to Democracy.
UPDATE 4/5/09 click here.
Contact: Katherine Fuchs, National Organizer, 202-332-0994 (office), 414-324-4228 (mobile), organizer[at]endtheoccupation[dot]org
Contact: Andrew Stachiw, Hampshire College Students for Justice in Palestine, 860-208-1404 (mobile), hampshiresjp[at]gmail[dot]com
Washington, DC (April 2)-The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and allied organizations participating in a national boycott campaign against Motorola welcomed news that Motorola Israel Ltd. has sold its [...]
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 [...]
Left Navigation: The Art of Jonathan Matas
Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 7pm
Lewis Auditorium (Goldwin Smith Hall)
Cornell University
Visual artist/muralist Jonathan Matas will give a presentation on his work and talk about art as a means of creative resistance in this time of crisis.
For more information on the artist see: http://www.jonathanmatas.com
For more info on the event contact: [...]
IRAQI OUD MASTERS TOGETHER: World renowned musicians come together for unique benefit concert.
On Friday, March 6, 2009 Iraqi-American Rahim Al Haj and Iraqi- Israeli Yair Dalal, both masters of the oud (arabic lute), original composers, and keepers of traditional Iraqi music will perform separately and together in a concert to raise funds for Iraqi [...]
Press release, Students for Justice in Palestine (Hampshire College), 12 February 2009
Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, has become the first of any college or university in the US to divest from companies on the grounds of their involvement in the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
This landmark move is a direct result of a two-year intensive campaign [...]
Last month’s Ithaca Common Council meeting was interrupted for an hour by a shoe throwing incident in reaction to the Council’s signing of a resolution at the October 1 meeting designating Ithaca a Community of Sanctuary “thus respecting the rights of its residents to support lawfully and proactively military personnel and veterans who are organizing [...]
U of R Students to Occupy Academic Building for Peace and in Solidarity with Gaza
Posted Fri, 02/06/2009 – 10:57 by Bryan Casler on http://rochesterivaw.org
University of Rochester Students for a Democratic Society (UR-SDS)
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627
Rochester, NY – 02/06/09– Students from the University of Rochester and members of the local Rochester community will be [...]
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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Rhetoric and Reality: Masking War Escalation as a Withdrawal Plan
The anti-war movement responds to President Obama’s speech
Statement from the ANSWER Coalition
The U.S. cannot “win” the war in Afghanistan. It was losing the war when Barack Obama took office. In March 2009, President Obama ordered another 30,000 troops. Rather than reverse the outcome, the U.S. and NATO effort lost even more ground. Now President Obama [...]