A friend writes from Philadelphia, scene of the recent anti-biotech protests (where, as we noted, a police officer died of a heart attack): Please donate bail money! A dozen or so protesters were arrested at the Biodevestation protests in Philadelphia… Read moreBiodevastation protesters need help
Freedom’s on the march. That’s why a South Asian man gets detained by the police for taking photos on the streets of New York. Gotta love the irony. Thanks to the Independent Press Association’s Voices That Must Be Heard, “the… Read moreAward-winning Indian film-maker harassed by NYPD
Right-wing settlers from the West Bank have been holed up in the Maoz Hayam hotel in the illegal Jewish colony of Gush Katif in the occupied Gaza Strip. Some 30 families have moved in the past few weeks to fortify… Read moreSome settlers push back, pt. 3: Palestinians attacked near Jewish militant redoubt
Excerpt from a report by Moroccan news agency MAP (via M&C News): Laayoune, 19 June: Hundreds of citizens today Sunday held a protest at the Hassan I Airport in Laayoune against the scheming intentions and provocative attempts of the Spanish… Read moreCollaborationist protests in Western Sahara
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), June 20: The local leader of Hamas was arrested in an often lawless frontier area where Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina meet. Brazilian and Paraguayan news agencies confirmed June 17 that Saiel Bashar Yahya Al… Read moreHamas leader arrested in South America?
Israeli security forces suppressing non-violent protest in Bil’in have been using a sound weapon lately called “the screamer,” which emits piercing noises to incapacitate and disperse crowds as a non-lethal crowd control measure. According to Ha’aretz, on June 20 the… Read more“The Screamer” sparks violence at Bil’in protest
The Inuit of Alaska and Canada’s far north, whose traditional way of life depends on hunting seals and polar bear—and therefore on cold—are not so sanguine about global warming. Thanks to TruthOut for passing on this interesting June 16 Reuters… Read moreInuit to file petition against US on climate change
Thank goodness the New York Times put this on the front page, above the fold yesterday. We have excised out two information-free propaganda paragraphs about the “implicit gamble” that anti-terrorist aid to authoritarian states “can backfire”–as if keeping down the… Read moreUzbek units in May massacre received US aid
An action call from the International Solidarity Movement — two of the main Palesinian non-violent organizers in the occupied West Bank village of Bil’in, which holds weekly protests against Israel’s “separation barrier” being built illegally on its farmland, have been… Read morePalestinian non-violent organizers arrested by Israel
Dorothy, an Israeli activist, forwarded the following message from Fareed, a villager in Qira, in the Salfit region of the West Bank, south of Nablus and near the major Israeli settlement of Ariel. The town faces an acute water shortage… Read morePalestinian village water supply choked off: action call
We get very little new about the new intifada in Western Sahara, and here’s one of the reasons why: Morocco is effectively barring journalists from the occupied territory. This from Reporters sans Frontières via allAfrica.com, June 17: Journalists in Western… Read moreJournalists under attack in Western Sahara
In the Chronicle of Higher Education, June 17, 2005, two Israeli activists protest the reversal of a recent decision by Britain’s Association of University Teachers (AUT) in support of a limited academic boycott of Israel. A British Union Reverses a… Read morePro-academic boycott piece by Israeli activists
