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National Day of Action Of All Medical School Students For Ceasefire
There will be a national day of action at all most medical schools in the US on Nov22 for a cease fire...
Posted: Tue, Nov 21, 2023 9:43pm PST
Pro-Palestine Student Group in Florida Sues University System to Prevent Deactivation
University of Florida’s Students for Justice in Palestine is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Florida, and Palestine Legal...
Posted: Fri, Nov 17, 2023 11:23am PST
The Carnage in Gaza Cries Out for Repudiation and Opposition. Maybe Poetry Can Help.
Maybe poetry can help...
Posted: Thu, Nov 16, 2023 9:35am PST
Joint open letter on transfer of 155mm artillery shells to Israel
155mm artillery shells do not serve legitimate defense needs and pose a grave risk to civilians. Under the current circumstances, granting the government of Israel access to these munitions would undermine the protection of civilians, respect for international humanitarian law, and the credibility of the Biden administration. For these reasons, we strongly urge you to withhold authorization for this transfer of 155mm artillery shells to the government of Israel....
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2023 3:20pm PST
California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee Statement on the Crisis
The CNA NNU is supporting a ceasefire....
Posted: Tue, Nov 14, 2023 8:00am PST
Religious Leaders Call for the Same Amount of Aid for Puerto Rico as US States Receive.
Puerto Rico should receive the same nutrition assistance benefits, popularly known as food stamps, as US states receive, noted 28 major religious leaders from Puerto Rico and the United States....
Posted: Mon, Nov 13, 2023 8:18am PST
Cottage with a catastrophic view
In Florida's real estate market, the late neoliberal bubble economy and the capitalist climate crisis are mutually reinforcing each other; at the local level, the internal and external barriers to capital are being felt here: rising sea levels and more devastating storms threaten to devalue real estate - and a climate-induced collapse of the real estate market would weigh on the economy....
Posted: Thu, Nov 9, 2023 5:18am PST
Law Center Statement on UN Report Decrying Ongoing Human Rights Abuses Against Unhoused People
WASHINGTON, D.C. – (November 3, 2023) Today, the United Nations Human Rights Committee highlighted serious and ongoing patterns of human rights abuses — including those against people experiencing homelessness and poverty — in the Concluding Observations from its recent convening that investigated the United States’ compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights....
Posted: Tue, Nov 7, 2023 10:40am PST
Israel’s Military Is Part of the U.S. War Machine
Oiling the gears for slaughter...
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2023 11:58pm PST
A Response to Senator Bernie Sanders-You Have Become "A Moral Monster"
Historian Norman Finkelstein talks about Bernie Sanders opposition to a ceasefire and how he has become a "moral monster". Finkelstein has supported Bernie Sanders campaigns for president....
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2023 9:20am PST
Famed Writer's Son Claims Biden's DOJ Stonewalling FBI Report That Exposes Kamala Harris
Los Angeles California, Nov. 5, 2023- Lorcan T. Kilroy M.F.A., the dismissed Los Angeles High School Art teacher and the son of award winning Irish Playwright Thomas Kilroy, claims Joe Biden's Administration and DOJ is stonewalling an FBI report he filed in 2022 that implicates Kamala Harris,( in her individual capacity), and two members of the LAPD's police commission in the 2013 suppression of witness statements from an LAPD detectives report ,(FBI report posted at online address below)....
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2023 2:58pm PST
Tacoma/Seattle Protests Planned at Port After Oakland Activists Delay US Vessel Bound for Israel
A massive protest will take place at Tacoma Port against ship destined for Israel...
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2023 11:21am PST
Denver prepares for Jewish National Fund global conference amid fears of genocide
The Colorado Palestine Coalition, composed of Colorado-based advocacy groups for Palestine, has organized many of these events, and is campaigning against the Jewish National Fund (JNF)’s upcoming global conference which will be held in Denver this November.
The JNF will host its annual global conference at the Denver Convention Center from Nov. 30 to Dec. 3. The conference will feature the Israeli ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren, Colora...
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2023 2:40am PST
Endangered and Dangerous Israel, Endangering Jews
Today’s siege of Gaza is the latest iteration of a more than century-long effort to instill a controlling fear of, and “respect” for, Jews in the non-Jewish inhabitants of Palestine....
Posted: Wed, Nov 1, 2023 12:09am PDT
DeSantis’ order to deactivate National SJP in Florida
Palestine Legal issued the following statement regarding DeSantis’ order to deactivate National SJP in Florida:...
Posted: Thu, Oct 26, 2023 2:03pm PDT
Hamas Is a Terrorist Organization. So Is the Israeli Government.
Trying to "make lies sound truthful and murder respectable"...
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2023 11:04am PDT
Backyard Community Theater with Warmth from The 408 (in Bozeman, MT)
A beautiful theatrical open stage was hosted in the backyard of a friend with shared values as ours - the Bozeman Antifa Dance (& Theatre Collective) ... i.e., BAD. This essay describes some of the performances and the thought behind connecting community art with the antifascist movement....
Posted: Mon, Oct 16, 2023 1:01pm PDT
Windows Smashed at Military Recruiters' Office in Daly City
On Indigenous People's Night, we smashed all nine windows at the military recruiters' office in so-called Daly City, California (Ramaytush Ohlone territory)....
Posted: Tue, Oct 10, 2023 1:14am PDT
A Statement from RootsAction on the Gaza-Israel War
October 08, 2023...
Posted: Mon, Oct 9, 2023 7:25pm PDT
Conference on the “IHRA definition” of antisemitism launches new Institute
The newly-formed Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (ICSZ) will hold its inaugural bicoastal conference, Battling the “IHRA Definition”: Theory & Activism, on October 13-14. Through the lens of research on structural racism, state violence, and social justice movements, the conference will analyze political campaigns that seek to codify the “IHRA definition” of antisemitism, and efforts to oppose IHRA policies. This is the first research conference focusing on IHRA campaigns, which ...
Posted: Fri, Oct 6, 2023 9:37am PDT