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ISM confirms the death of Vittorio Arrigoni

International Solidarity Movement | April 15, 20121


The International Solidarity Movement is shocked and deeply saddened by the killing of our friend and colleague Vittorio Arrigoni. Vik was an inspiring activist and generous soul. Please keep his family and friends in your thoughts.

April 15, 2011 Posted by | Solidarity and Activism, Timeless or most popular, Video | Leave a comment

Egyptian Revolution-News Analysis

Press TV | April 13, 2011

Part 1

Part 2

April 14, 2011 Posted by | Solidarity and Activism, Video | Leave a comment

Birth defect weapons used in Libya

Uploaded by 91177info on Apr 13, 2011

April 13, 2011 Posted by | Militarism, Timeless or most popular, Video | Leave a comment

Netanyahu (Feb-2001) A secure peace and not just peace

“Their time is running out”

Uploaded by argonium79 on Apr 12, 2011

Ronald Reagan Banquet
February 16th 2001
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ReaganBa

April 12, 2011 Posted by | Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, Militarism, Timeless or most popular, Video | Leave a comment

Apartheid and steadfastness in Nuaman

Alternative Information Center | 12 April 2011

Al Nuaman is a Palestinian village in southeast Jerusalem. Israel annexed it to Jerusalem in 1967, yet its people weren’t given Jerusalem residency rights. Today, the residents of Al Nuaman continue to fight for the right to remain on their lands.

April 12, 2011 Posted by | Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, Illegal Occupation, Timeless or most popular, Video | Leave a comment

Students Shutdown Carleton Board of Governors

saiacarleton on April 8, 2011

On 29 March 2011, students at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, shut down the scheduled Board of Governors (BoG) meeting after the body refused to consider a motion calling for divestment of pension stock from four companies implicated in Israel’s occupation of Palestine.

The direct action was led by Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA), and received the support and participation of 25 allied campus student groups, as well as faculty, staff and community members.

For more information on SAIA, please see: http://carleton.saia.ca

For more information on the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, please see: http://bdsmovement.net

Voiceover for this video was provided by the Five O’Clock Train, a radio program on CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa) hosted by Denis Rancourt. The full interview with SAIA members is provided here: http://trainradio.blogspot.com/2011/03/students-against-israeli-apartheid.html

Special thanks to Sigur Ros (http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/sigur-ros/id73720797) and David Rovics (http://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/david-rovics/id15370164) for the music.

Special thanks as well to the Active Stills collective (ActiveStills.org) for photography from Palestine.

April 9, 2011 Posted by | Illegal Occupation, Solidarity and Activism, Timeless or most popular, Video, War Crimes | Leave a comment

Samouni Family Responds to Goldstone

1worldcitizen on Apr 4, 2011

During Operation Cast Lead Israel committed massive war crimes for all the world to see. Among these crimes the use of White Phosphorus in densely populated areas, use of Depleted Uranium, bombing civilian targets of all sorts without military necessity, destroying civilian infrastructure with no military justification and the infamous massacre of the Samouni family… among many other crimes.

In the aftermath of Cast Lead, Justice Richard Goldstone, a Zionist Jew, was commissioned by the United Nations to write a report on the alleged war crimes. Although the report did not go nearly far enough in exposing the brutality of all the crimes committed, crimes committed by the fourth largest military in the world against a essentially defenceless and captive population, it did allege that Israel (and Hamas) was almost undoubtedly guilty of war crimes and possibly, crimes against humanity.

But on April 1st, 2011 Justice Goldstone had an apparent change of heart and effectively said that he was wrong. With regard to the Samouni family he said, Israel simply made a mistake. It seems that the world in which we live in, a world of impunity for the favoured Israeli state, is set to continue. Unless of course we the people decide enough is enough. — Ken O’Keefe

http://SamouniProject.net

April 5, 2011 Posted by | Timeless or most popular, Video, War Crimes | Leave a comment

Israeli troops attack Jewish peace protesters

Joseph Dana | April 3, 2011

Yesterday’s unprovoked attack on Israeli peace activists falls in line with the army’s strategy of repression of nonviolent resistance by Israelis or Palestinians against Israel’s increasingly violent occupation in the West Bank.

Beit Ummar has been holding weekly demonstrations against the occupation and the confiscation of its lands by neighboring Jewish-only settlements for the past several years. The demonstrations have ranged from calm to deadly with hundreds injured and jailed. Some have even been killed in settler rampages through the village.

Yesterday, a group of Ta’ayush activists were returning to Jerusalem after spending the morning with Palestinian farmers in the South Hebron Hills. They made the quick decision to check on the closure of Beit Ummar on the drive home.

“Within five minutes of arriving at a series of concrete barriers in front of the village, we were surrounded by soldiers. We walked to a large gate [which the army had installed two months prior in order to seal the village] at another entrance to the village only to find that it was locked shut” Kurz recalled, “At this point there were a lot of soldiers, many of whom were officers. So we decided to have an impromptu nonviolent protest against the closure of the village.” Speaking to one Israeli activist present at the demonstration, the commander in charge threatened that “every time you do this (demonstrate), I will close the village.”

The commander in charge pronounced the area a ‘closed military zone’, after which one member of the Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity group asked the commander to see the closed military zone warrant. Being a stout guy, soldiers felt threated by his presence and attacked him. This set off a chain of violent events as soldiers attacked anyone bold enough to look them in the eye. Virtually everyone was arrested. According to activists, the commander never showed them the closed military zone warrant, a legal right afforded by Israeli law.

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Ynet News uses the term “clashes” in describing the event.

April 3, 2011 Posted by | Solidarity and Activism, Timeless or most popular, Video | Leave a comment

Friday: the day of rage in the Arab world

PressTVGlobalNews | April 1, 2011


Part 2

The day of rage, the day of departure and the day of salvation: these are the names that protestors across the Arab world have been giving to Friday. From Yemen, to Bahrain, to Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, demonstrators have been massing after Friday prayers to demand change and to safeguard the ideals of their revolutions.

This program will be asking whether the revolutionary movement in Egypt is moving in a new direction, why President Saleh in Yemen is refusing to step down and how the western stance on Bahrain and Libya has raised questions of double standards.

To answer the questions, Homa Lezgee is joined by Chris Bambery, Dr. Saeb Shaath and Ramzy Baroud.

Egyptian authorities are preventing a big supply of cement from entering the Gaza strip. The coalition for the Lifting of Gaza Siege says the move indicates that the Egyptian Revolution has done nothing to change Cairo’s policies toward Palestine.

Press TV’s Hassan Alkatib reports from Cairo.

April 2, 2011 Posted by | Civil Liberties, Solidarity and Activism, Video | Leave a comment

Ali Abunimah & David Cronin at King’s College London

sternchenproductions | March 24, 2011

David Cronin:

Ali Abunimah & David Cronin at King’s College London on 24 March 2011, sponsored by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and King’s College Action for Palestine.

April 1, 2011 Posted by | Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, Solidarity and Activism, Timeless or most popular, Video | Leave a comment

Depleted Uranium – The Ultimate Dirty Bomb

Uploaded by iching64 on Oct 19, 2006

Depleted uranium is considered a weapon of mass destruction and is banned for use in warfare by international law, yet the US and Israel use it routinely.

The US military has used thousands of tons of depleted uranium in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Kuwait and Iraq sickening civilians and its own soldiers by the tens of thousands.

Depleted uranium contaminates food, water, air and land forever. It’s the ultimate “dirty bomb.”

For more information about this video go to: http://www.beyondtreason.com

March 30, 2011 Posted by | Militarism, Nuclear Power, Timeless or most popular, Video | Leave a comment

AIC Video: Palestinian Leaders in Jerusalem Targeted

March 22, 2011 | Alternative Information Center

An Israeli campaign to target Palestinian community leaders and organizations in Jerusalem seems to be underway.

From the unjustified closure of over 25 community centres to the interrogation and arrests of numerous political and community leaders, Palestinians in East Jerusalem say that the Israeli authorities are trying to limit the impact of Palestinian civil society groups in the city.

March 22, 2011 Posted by | Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, Timeless or most popular, Video | Leave a comment