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imageActivists Confront Lawmakers and AIPAC Members on Gaza
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by Phil Pasquini
In an action welcoming AIPAC to Congress for their lobbying efforts, human rights activists including members of Code Pink and others continued their weeklong “Flood Congress for Palestine” campaign by greeting AIPAC and Congress members outside of the Capitol, in the street and today, inside the Rayburn Congressional Office Building....
Posted: Tue, Mar 12, 2024 4:20pm PDT
imageRoaming Billboards Bring Gazan Reality and More to the Streets
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by Phil Pasquini
Since the Hamas attack in Israel on October 7 and the massive and sustained invasion of Gaza by the IDF, the world has seen Palestinian and human rights activists protesting daily calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire. Activists have employed any number of means to convey their message including the use of mobile LED billboards permanently mounted on a truck that can roam the city bringing its messages to the public....
Posted: Sat, Mar 9, 2024 3:57pm PST
textBiden Legacy = Genocide by Abby Zimet
Declaring, "We are outraged, we are heartbroken," hundreds of protesters turned out to block Biden's motorcade en route to his State of the Union speech, forcing cars to take "the long way" to the Capitol. Concluding a day-long series of protests across Washington DC, hundreds of people in black shirts reading "Not In Our Name" and "Biden’s Legacy = Genocide" sat and stood along Pennsylvania Avenue near the Capitol, delaying Biden's speech by about a half hour. Organizers with megaphones led ...
Posted: Thu, Mar 7, 2024 10:59pm PST
imageNew “Kibbutz” at Israeli Embassy
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by Phil Pasquini
For the past ten days at the Israeli Embassy, peaceful human rights activists have erected and maintained a presence 24/7 outside of the compound bedecked with numerous Palestinian flags, signs, banners and a memorial dedicated to Aaron Bushnell who last month immolated himself in protest over the war in Gaza whose last words were “Free Palestine.”...
Posted: Thu, Mar 7, 2024 4:57pm PST
imageSenate Global Food Security Commission Discusses Gaza Starvation
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by Phil Pasquini
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing March 6 on Global Food Security, a timely topic especially so with millions starving in Gaza...
Posted: Wed, Mar 6, 2024 5:02pm PST
textUS-NATO is Continuing to Provoke Nuclear War What can we do? by Nayvin Gordon
An international anti-war direct action movement can end the threat of nuclear war...
Posted: Wed, Mar 6, 2024 10:24am PST
imageNuclear Holocaust in Indian Country: Natives Testify Before Inter-American Commission
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by Brenda Norrell
Navajo, White Mesa Ute, Havasuapai, Northern Arapaho and Oglala Lakota testified before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, revealing the nuclear holocaust in Indian country, of uranium mining, scattered radioactive waste, and deadly uranium mills poisoning the aquifers and land of Native people. They countered the claims by the EPA, BIA and Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials that claimed they were abiding by U.S. federal laws requiring consultation, upholding Treaties and sa...
Posted: Wed, Mar 6, 2024 9:26am PST
textUS, Canadian synagogues sell Palestinian land for illegal settlement by Islam Dogru & Zehra Nur Duz
Closed-door meetings held in some synagogues in the US and Canada to sell properties belonging to Palestinians from areas where illegal settlers reside in East Jerusalem and the West Bank have sparked outrage across the US. One of these meetings, organized by the Texas-based real estate company Keller Williams, was protested in Englewood, New Jersey....
Posted: Wed, Mar 6, 2024 2:23am PST
imageBenny Gantz Meets VP Harris at White House
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by Phil Pasquini
Former Israeli Army General and War Cabinet Member, Benny Gantz met today at the White House with Vice President Kamal Harris and others where they were scheduled to discuss increasing aid to Gaza....
Posted: Mon, Mar 4, 2024 6:04pm PST
image“Hands off Rafah” Rally at Israeli Embassy Disrupts DC
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by Phil Pasquini
Human rights activists and Palestinian Americans and people of conscious protested at the Israeli Embassy in Washington calling for ran immediate ceasefire in Gaza and Hands off Rafah....
Posted: Sun, Mar 3, 2024 4:54pm PST
textUber CEO's Racist Rhetoric by Nyx
Please Help Petition Austin's Mayor and the Organizers of South by Southwest to Cancel Uber CEO Dara's Talk...
Posted: Sat, Mar 2, 2024 8:41pm PST
textUS veto #5 at UN vote to protect Israel from global condemnation in genocidal war. by DLi
For the fifth time since the war between Israel and the ruling Hamas group in Gaza that started on October 7, the US has once again been the lone voice in sheltering the Israeli government from widespread global rebuke. While making a few milquetoast statements that "regret" the massive indiscriminate bombings and killings of 30,000+ unarmed civilians, the tone-deaf Biden regime(poll after poll show the American public wants a ceasefire in Gaza) has continued sending thousands of bombs, miss...
Posted: Sat, Mar 2, 2024 4:04pm PST
imageNavalny Memorial Acts as a Symbol of Freedom at Russian Embassy
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by Phil Pasquini
A report on the memorial to Putin critic and opposition leader Alexei Navalny was erected across form the Russian Embassy in Washington, DC on the day of his burial in Moscow....
Posted: Fri, Mar 1, 2024 5:43pm PST
textImmigrants Are Not Hurting U.S.-Born Workers – Six Facts To Set the Record Straight by Economic Policy Institute
Immigration is contributing to strong economic growth—with future immigration forecast to boost real gross domestic product by 2% over the next 10 years—as well as increasing government revenue. Immigrants are also complementing U.S.-born workers by contributing to overall population and workforce growth....
Posted: Fri, Mar 1, 2024 3:52am PST
textU.S. Geological Survey Will Restore Annual Counts of About 400 Farm Pesticides by Center for Biological Diversity
Pesticides Applied to Seeds to Remain Uncounted...
Posted: Thu, Feb 29, 2024 1:25pm PST
documentLegal Petition Aims to Plug Thousands of Old Offshore Oil Wells
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by Center for Biological Diversity
GAO Report Reveals Alarming Decommissioning Gaps in Gulf of Mexico, Pacific...
Posted: Thu, Feb 29, 2024 7:45am PST
textAmerican Media Keep Citing "Zaka" — Though Its October 7 Atrocity Stories Are Discredited by Arun Gupta & Tali Shapiro
Given its prominence, Zaka has been scrutinized by the Israeli press but not the U.S. media. A blockbuster Haaretz report found after October 7, senior military leaders sidelined Israel Defense Forces soldiers specializing in recovering bodies and preserving evidence and sent in untrained Zaka volunteers instead. Zaka reportedly turned massacre sites into a “war room for donations,” used corpses as fundraising props, “spread accounts of atrocities that never happened,” and botched forensics t...
Posted: Wed, Feb 28, 2024 5:24am PST
imageSouthern Resident Orcas Receive Oregon Endangered Species Protections
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by Center for Biological Diversity
PORTLAND, Ore., February 16, 2024 — The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted today to protect Southern Resident orcas under the state’s Endangered Species Act, responding to a February 2023 petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, and Whale and Dolphin Conservation....
Posted: Mon, Feb 26, 2024 9:38pm PST
textSelf-immolation Aaron Bushnell “indicator…of the profound change in consciousness in US" by Peoples Dispatch
At the start of Bushnell’s livestream, his first words after introducing himself as an active-duty soldier are “I will no longer be complicit in genocide.” Many in the United States, including those who have been taking to the streets for Palestine since October 7, have come to the same conclusion....
Posted: Mon, Feb 26, 2024 5:22pm PST
documentHenry Kissinger, Watergate, the CIA, and the Latin American Connection
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by Martin Edwin Andersen
An advance of a book coming out on the 80th anniversary of the most important trial of the 20th Century ... Changing Sides: Henry Kissinger and the Nuremberg Legacy...
Posted: Wed, Feb 21, 2024 6:00pm PST
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