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Aid agencies condemn Israel
More than 30 international aid agencies working in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have accused Israel of obstructing their operations to the point that they can no longer fulfil their mandates....
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 8:38am PDT
Israel's Obstruction of S.A Humanitarian Aid To Palestine a Political Issue
Israeli Government deliberately prevented from delivering life saving humanitarian aid to Palestinians, besieged under Israeli occupation and 18 hour curfews....
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 7:46am PDT
Lesbian and Gay Pride march London UK
Thousands marched on Saturday 6th July , the 30th anniversary of Londons annual Lesbian and Gay Pride march...
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 4:11am PDT
THE PENAL COLONIES
The Gaza strip is a perfect realization of the Israeli vision of "separation". Surrounded with electric fences and army posts, completely sealed off the outside world, Gaza has become a huge prison. About one-third of its land was confiscated for the 7,000 Israeli settlers living there (and their defense array), while over a million Palestinians are crowded in the remaining areas of the prison. Now Israel is considering the imprisonment there of families of suicide bombers from the ...
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 2:33am PDT
Tuesday Oakland City council Vote On Just Cause
Oakland activists have collected over 36,000 signatures for a Just Cause Initiative which now needs the vote of an uncertain City Council before it may become a Ballot Measure....
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 1:05am PDT
BACH Alert-06/25/02-ANOTHER CHANCE FOR THE HERITAGE TREE ACT
On May 30, 2002, Senator Don Perata (D-Oakland) introduced State Constitutional Amendment (SCA) 17. The bill calls for the people of California to be given the opportunity to vote on passage of the
Heritage Tree Preservation Act....
Posted: Sun, Jul 7, 2002 9:57pm PDT
Update on imprisoned Israeli Soldier objectors
To the best of our knowledge, there are six objectors currently held in the military prisons of Israel. One of them, Ilan Windholtz, is serving his fourth prison term in a row (which requires especially massive pressure in his case)....
Posted: Sun, Jul 7, 2002 7:38pm PDT
Campaign for Renters Rights
A report on the July Campaign for Renters Rights Meeting in Oakland...
Posted: Sun, Jul 7, 2002 7:12pm PDT
What If Conservatives Took Over A Leftist Web Site And Nobody Cared?
Once the enemy seizes your group, you simply walk away....
Posted: Sun, Jul 7, 2002 5:04pm PDT
Kill them!!! (cartoon by Latuff)
Copyright-free artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff....
Posted: Sun, Jul 7, 2002 3:41pm PDT
Ode to the No Longer Very Active
We thought of empty streets
The times we didn’t see you
Standing in the rain
Demanding change, protection
From terrorists in $3,000 suits...
Posted: Sun, Jul 7, 2002 3:11pm PDT
Fake Hamas
Israeli soldier dressed as Hamas, wearing Star Of David....
Posted: Sun, Jul 7, 2002 2:19pm PDT
What's So Bad About Israel?
...the Jews distinguished
themselves in at least one impeccably documented and truly disgusting
massacre at Deir Yassin, and probably many more that Jewish forces
succeeded in concealing. The new state accorded full rights only
to its Jewish inhabitants, and defeated its Arab opponents both
in battle and in a propaganda campaign that effectively concealed
Israeli racism and aggression....
Posted: Sun, Jul 7, 2002 1:49pm PDT
OUR ISRAELI DAUGHTER'S DEATH IS ISRAEL'S FAULT
Our daughter's death by suicide bomber is a result of the terror of Israel's occupation. A BIG red "Free Palestine" sticker has prominent place on the Elhanan family's front door. This is not a Palestinian house in the occupied territories....
Posted: Sun, Jul 7, 2002 12:46pm PDT
Night deposits (photo by Latuff)
June 25, 2002. Homeless in downtown Rio de Janeiro sleeps next to an agency of Bradesco, the major Brazilian bank.
(Copyright-free photo by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff. High-resolution .tiff file for printing purposes available for free by request)...
Posted: Sun, Jul 7, 2002 12:16pm PDT
Major Road Rage at Sacramento's Critical Mass Ride
Last Friday's Sacto CM ride was a complete disaster!!! We had bottles thrown at us, one driver repeatedly tried to 'door' the riders, one rider had his video camera smashed, and another had his bicycle crushed....
Posted: Sun, Jul 7, 2002 11:44am PDT
HAMEED KHAN AND ALL QUETTA STRIKELEADERS AND WORKERS RELEASED!
COURAGE AND DETERMINATION IN STRUGGLE FORCES THE DICTATORSHIP TO RETREAT...
Posted: Sun, Jul 7, 2002 10:53am PDT