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With settlers, no peace "All Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory are illegal under international law, which holds that the transfer of a civilian population into or out of occupied territory is a war crime under the Fourth Geneva Convention. UN Security Council Resolutions 242 (1967), 446 (1979), 452 (1979) and 465 (1980) all call upon the Israeli government to cease and desist from any settlement activity."
Israeli strategists are not mistaken in identifying the settlement project as ...
Posted: Wed, Aug 3, 2005 5:29pm PDT
For the sake of Palestinians and Israelis, it can't be Gaza Last Ultimately, the Gaza withdrawal is a welcome first step, provided that is done with honorable intentions. The strengthening of Israeli settlements elsewhere understandably dampen the enthusiasm and raise suspicions. But it’s time to start thinking of the human price -- a price that has no dollar amount nor gets much attention....
Posted: Wed, Aug 3, 2005 5:24pm PDT
This Divided State playing in San Francisco The award-winning underground political documentary that documents the contraversey that ensued when Michael Moore is invited to speak at a college campus in the most conservative city in America two weeks before the 2004 election. It speaks to the larger issue of the cultural divide in America....
Posted: Wed, Aug 3, 2005 4:19pm PDT
Phil T. Rich and St. Francis take sides in the San Francisco Hotel boycott (video/quicktime 18.4MB) UniteHERE Local 2 is joined in boycott of St. Francis Hotel by members of the Association for Theatre in High Education. Both were protesting ATHE leadership's failure to honor the boycott. Four-minute QuickTime movie. 18MB....
Posted: Wed, Aug 3, 2005 10:47am PDT
March 4 freedom A3, peace A6, more... ... political events Aug 3-11, incl. Supreme Court meeting and march, Mime Troupe, sweatshops, Liberia forests, Hiroshima, G8 protests, Livermore, Berkeley, Palo Alto, more + news links .......
Posted: Wed, Aug 3, 2005 9:13am PDT
Probe continues in fatal CHP shooting Fremont police Tuesday continued their investigation of a California Highway Patrol shooting on Interstate 880 on Monday that left a man dead....
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 11:09pm PDT
Reminder: Entertainment Commission Tonight @ 5pm, City Hall We urgently need you (and all your friends)...
***Come to the Entertainment Commission hearing TONIGHT!***
5pm, Tuesday August 2 at City Hall (Room 406)...
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 4:13pm PDT
Sweatfree Public Hearing Thur! 8/4 The hearing starts at 1pm sharp in
Room 263, City Hall. We will meet at 12:30 on the front steps to update all
participants on where the legislation currently stands and messaging for the
hearing....
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 1:39pm PDT
Cops Radio Chaos during Anti-G8 Protest Here is a piece taken from SFGate from the SF Chronicle written By Chronicle staff writer Jaxon Van Derbeken. It is on the radio transmissions between the different police agnecies during the Anti-G-8 protest last month. One thing should be noted is that 2 Federal agents were the first to assist the injured officer....
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 11:47am PDT
A TIME OF CHANGE: ISRAELIS, PALESTINIANS AND THE DE-OCCUPATION "I think this is a war crime," she said, referring to the occupation, as she stood among the kebab vendors and crowds of battered yellow taxis waiting to pick up Palestinians forced to leave their own cars on the far side of the Hawara checkpoint outside Nablus...
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 10:00am PDT
SF Supervisors Should Reject Comcast Deal Tomorrow the Rules Committee will be asked to rubberstamp a deal made by Mayor Gavin Newsom to extend San Francisco’s contract with cable provider Comcast. The Board of Supervisors should renegotiate the contract rather than flushing down the drain the first opportunity in 25 years to fix an awful agreement with a company American consumers rate lower than the IRS. The renegotiations represent an historic opening for strengthening cable workers’ and subscribers’ rights, obtaining Internet acc...
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 9:53am PDT
'There is a Use for Violence in Our Movement' 'There is a Use for Violence in Our Movement'...
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 12:29am PDT
No More Mister Nice Guy! After a hard day of work, the last thing I wanted to do was go to, yet another meeting to discuss the planned Medical Cannabis Dispensary regulations by S.F. City Hall....
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 11:46pm PDT
Beyond the Condemnation of Terrorism "It does not help addressing the problem of terrorism when someone like Thomas Friedman put all the blame for terrorism on the Muslim world and feel that the West might be justified for treating every “Muslim living in a Western society” as a suspect and “a potential walking bomb,” and in cracking “down even harder on their own Muslim populations.” Friedman conveniently forgets that Western governments must take responsibility for befriending brutal dictators throughout the Muslim world,...
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 12:19pm PDT
ZIONISM Without delay the Zionists set out to implement their mission of removing Palestinians from the land. They set up "the Fund" or "the Jewish National Fund" to buy land from under the Palestinians' noses and deposited it in a trust which allowed only Jews to use or rent it. Most Palestinians at this time were peasants working the land of rich, absentee, Arab landlords. Theodor Herzl avowed: "We shall try to spirit the penniless (Palestinian) population across the border...
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 12:10pm PDT
Large Turnout for Citywide TIC Strike Activists came out in force--and numbers--Sunday as the San Francisco Tenants Union delivered an 11-site strike against realtors attempting to sell properties where tenants had been evicted to create vacancies as tenancies in common (TICs). Approximately 60 activists citywide picketed these locations, informing prospective buyers of both the legal and financial risks as well as the dubious morality of purchasing a home created by eviction....
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 6:34am PDT
MUNI To SF: Pay More, Wait Longer, Keep Quiet Marc Norton 01.AUG.05
(The following opinion piece was submitted to the SF Examiner in response to an article on Muni. The Examiner did not print my piece. -MN)...
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 6:33am PDT
This Tuesday at 7PM: Eyewitness Haiti Educational Forum 
Tuesday, August 2nd - 7:00 PM
Women's Building - San Francisco
18th Street between Guerrero and Valencia...
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 6:31am PDT
Protest the recent smoking ban in public parks in SF? Anyone wanna have a smoke-in to protest the recent ban on smoking in public parks and recreational areas?...
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 3:07am PDT
8/11: wrong bathroom screening & party Thursday August 11, 2005
7pm doors, ages 21 & up please
www.elriosf.com, 3158 Mission Street at Valencia...
Posted: Sun, Jul 31, 2005 10:19pm PDT
1499 of 1876