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War & Peace NOAM CHOMSKY ADDRESSES THOUSANDS AT RIVERSIDE CHURCH Jacquie Simone | Renowned leftist intellectual, linguist and author Noam Chomsky discussed democracy, the economy and global crises June 12 at Riverside Church in Harlem. more... 7 Comments New York Activists to Leonard Cohen: "Don't Play Apartheid; Don’t Play Israel!" Adalah-NY | New York activists gathered in front of Radio City Music Hall Sunday night during a Leonard Cohen concert to call upon the singer/songwriter to cancel his scheduled September concert in Israel. The protesters sang songs, chanted, handed out leaflets to concert attendees and produced sidewalk art. The call comes in support of earlier calls by Jews, Palestinians, Israeli citizens and residents of the UK, and coincides with the publication of an open letter by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) calling for protests throughout the cities Cohen is touring. more... 15 Comments NYers Call for Mother’s Day Boycott of Leviev Diamonds over Israeli settlements Adalah-NY | On the day before Mother’s Day, 40 New York human rights advocates gathered at the Leviev jewelry store on Madison Avenue and called on throngs of weekend Madison Avenue shoppers to boycott Israeli diamond mogul Lev Leviev over his companies’ construction of Israeli settlements on Palestinian land in West Bank villages including Bil’in and Jayyous. Mother’s Day is one of the biggest jewelry shopping periods in the US annually. The New York protest came as controversy is growing in Norway over Norwegian government investments in Leviev’s company Africa-Israel. The New York protesters also commemorated Bassem Abu Rahma from Bil’in who was shot to death by Israeli soldiers last month during a peaceful protest against the construction on Bil’in’s land of Israel’s wall and of the Mattityahu East settlement by a Leviev company. more... 1 Comments 60 YEARS NATO: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH Linde Jacobs | On April 3 and 4 NATO-members met in Strasbourg — on the border of France and Germany — to celebrate the organization’s 60th birthday and to reconsider the role of NATO in the future political and military landscape. Activists from all across Europe were gearing up for mass protests, as they say NATO is not for protecting freedoms, but rather for infringing them on a global scale. more... 0 Comments Twenty-Four Hour Protest Outside Zionist Organizations’ Office Draws Hundreds
Alex Kane | About 900 New York City Jews participated in a twenty-four hour protest outside the World Zionist Organization and Jewish Agency offices on 3rd Ave. between 40 and 41st St. in Manhattan, calling for justice for the Palestinian people and an end to the occupation of Palestine. Thousands Line the Streets of 7th Avenue, Calling for an End to the Israeli Assault on Gaza Alex Kane | The rally and march to the Time Warner building near Columbus Circle was organized by the Break the Siege on Gaza Coalition-NY, which includes a number of local pro-Palestinian organizations. Time Warner was targeted because the demonstrators say that CNN and other media outlets are not showing the truth about Gaza. more... 0 Comments New Yorkers Rally at City Hall to Protest Bloomberg’s Trip to Israel Zahra Hankir | Some 300 New Yorkers gathered in front of City Hall in Manhattan Wednesday evening, slamming New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for a recent visit to Israel, during which he endorsed the Jewish state’s ongoing bombardment of Gaza and failed to acknowledge the suffering of the Palestinians. more... 2 Comments Pro-Palestine Protestors Slam U.S. Support of Israel Zahra Hankir | As Israeli ground troops crossed the border into Gaza, rapidly escalating an offensive that has taken the lives of over 460 Palestinians, thousands of New Yorkers gathered at Times Square on Saturday afternoon demanding that Israel end the killing and that the U.S. renounce its support of the Jewish state. more... 1 Comments Roundup of New York City's Response to Israel's Attack on Gaza New York City Independent Media Center | New York City residents and activists sprung into quick action as soon as the Israeli bombing campaign of the Gaza Strip in Palestine began. Numerous protests, sponsored and organized by a variety of pro-Palestine and peace organizations, have occurred, all calling for an immediate end to the violence in the Gaza Strip and an end to U.S. military aid to Israel. more... 5 Comments Hundreds Rally for Gaza Outside Israel's UN Mission Zahra Hankir | Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists gathered in front of the Permanent Mission of Israel to the UN in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday evening, protesting Israel’s bombing campaign against Gaza, which has left over 370 Palestinians dead and over 1,700 injured. The spectators covered the sidewalk of the entire block at the corner of 42nd St and 2nd Ave; at the opposite corner of the street, a much smaller pro-Israel counter-protest was held in support of the Jewish state’s military action against Hamas. more... 0 Comments New School occupation press conference, 10:30am, Thursday 12/18! kilroy | A press release from CUNY students at The New School in Exile announces a rally and press conference at 10:30am, Thursday, December 18th. more... 6 Comments Reflections from a New School Student Occupier kilroy | At approximately 7 pm tonight I joined with my fellow students in initiating a student occupation of the 65 5th avenue building of the New School. I am here today to show my opposition to business as usual at the university, and to stand in solidarity with other students who feel the same. We come from diverse backgrounds, and different politics, but we all agree that the university needs to change. more... 0 Comments An Open Letter: Come Occupy a Building with Us...Now kilroy | An open letter from the student occupiers of the New School University cafeteria. more... 0 Comments Photos from New School occupation kilroy | Photos from the cafeteria at the New School University as a student occupation enters its first night. more... 0 Comments New School demands from the Radical Student Union kilroy | Wednesday, December 10th, the Radical Student Union issued several demands at a demonstration and sit-in at the Board of Trustees meeting for the New School University. With a student occupation underway in the New School cafeteria, the same demands are being brought to the fore with greater force. more... 4 Comments JFAV Represents Filipino American Community in Big Events
Justice for Filipino American Veterans (JFAV) | Assessing the Bush Legacy: The Measure of the Man and His Administration Stephen Lendman | Bush's ugly and criminal legacy. more... 0 Comments jamie | "Be sure to check out the second video below the first in which we get the overwhelming reaction of support for this Iraqi hero who is being tortured as he is taken away." more... 0 Comments Editorial Cartoon: Mission Accomplished! Mike Flugennock | So, I'm poring over the Drudge Report in my daily search for cheap laffs, and I come across this AP dispatch from Baghdad reporting on the Iraqi reporter who threw his shoes at President Chimp, and think "whoa, that's some cheap laffs – and he almost hit the sonofabitch, too! Sweet!" Later that day, I go by Drudge again, and find a story from AFP noting that the perpetrator of this "shoe-icide attack" is being hailed as a hero in most of the Arab World, and I think "whoa, shit! This story's really growing some legs...!" more... 0 Comments STOP WATCHING--GET OUT ONTO THE STREETS! Viola Chasm | A guilt trip beyond measure more... 10 Comments The Abduction, Secret Detention, Torture, and Repeated Raping of Aafia Siddiqui Stephen Lendman | America's war on Islam more... 0 Comments Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winner | Moret added "This interview addresses the "Energy Budget" as the constraints and method for analysis of the scientific and technological evidence for the use of HAARP and Beam Weapons at the World Trade Center site on 9/11/01." more... 0 Comments NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- 12.14.08 NYCLAW -- New York City Labor Against the War | Chicago Protest: U.S. Out of Middle East Now "This is the first speak out of this sort [that I know of] since Obama has been elected." more... 0 Comments This civilization is rotten to the core !!! Seven Star Hand | The Vatican and its primary cohorts are the secret rulers of Planet Earth and their primary tools of governance are secrecy and the deceptive triangle formed by money, religion, and politics. It is beyond obvious that monetary, religious, and political leaders will never solve humanity’s persistent problems. To do so would free you from their deceptions and put them out of work… more... 1 Comments Savas Michael | The Greek Intifada continues and the government is unable to impose its control in the country, spreading fears among the ruling classes all over the European Union. more... 0 Comments NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- 12.13.08 NYCLAW -- New York City Labor Against the War | "We knew keeping the windows in the warehouse was a bargaining chip." more... 0 Comments Colombia/This year have been recruit 11.000 children by illegal groups Tribunal Internacional sobre la Infancia | The denounce was made by Sergio Tapia, president and International Attorney for Human Rights in the International Tribunal about the childhood affected by the war and the poverty. more... 0 Comments June 2009: A call to action for a new anti-war strategy
anonymous | June 4-8, 2009!… NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- 12.12.08 NYCLAW -- New York City Labor Against the War | If there is a happy ending to the Groundhog Day of repeated wars and plunder, it may well be found in the very mass movement whose enthusiasts registered voters and knocked on doors and brought Obama to power. Will they now be satisfied as spectators to the cynicism of "continuity"? more... 0 Comments Page 190 |
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