Posted on Saturday, 13 February, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
an effective message at a fraction of Dave Cameron's budget.
Residents of the West Bank village of Bil’in have proven that innovative resistance can move walls. For a second time the village has won a ruling against annexation attempts by a nearby settlement via a wall that that is under construction well outside of Israel’s internationally recognized borders. People there continue to draw from whatever western Pop culture dishes out to keep the issue in the media. Last Friday, Palestinian demonstrators splashed on some blue paint and offered their own 3D rendition of Avatar as they marched against armed Israeli soldiers. Brilliant.
Posted on Saturday, 14 November, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
Donate $140 to a youth center in the Askar refugee camp near the Palestinian city of Nablus in the West Bank and get a street named after you. Be the start of what will be a post-occupation postal system.
Posted on Tuesday, 11 August, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
I’m donating this post for an urgent call of action in solidarity with Mohammad Khatib, and all Palestinian political prisoners, issued for Friday, August 14 at noon at the Indigo Bookstore on the corner of St. Catherine & McGill college in Montreal, Canada. Actions like this should be happening all over.
For more information on Mohammad Khatib’s case, as well as the issues which face his West Bank village of Bil’in, visit www.bilin-village.org. Mo Khatib is a friend of mine and several other friends of mine. He is an individual whose drive, creativity, self-reliance and relentless campaign work — not just to save his own village from settlement expansion and loss of territory to the apartheid barrier, but for all of occupied Palestine — are constanly awe inspiring.
His enginuity for continous direct, disruptive nonviolent action has kept media attention on Bil’in far longer than is usually the norm in areas where land is being co-opted by annexation policies, and has even led to legal rulings in Israel against the military and pro-occupation policies. It is no wonder that he is considered such a threat. He now joins the ranks of political prisoners around the world, kidnapped and detained for exercising their rights under international law.
Posted on Wednesday, 6 May, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
I wanted to capture this post on Wikileaks before it was hashed to bits by certain interests in the great West Bank colonial experiment. I don’t know how “full” this actually is. Interesting the leak cam out of the Open Source Center, though. Apparently someone’s being more open than others.
May 1, 2009
Summary
In late January, WikiLeaks released a 186 page secret Israeli Ministry of Defense database, which showed the full extent of illegal Israeli settlements in Gaza and the West Bank. A version of the document had first been obtained by the well regarded Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The leak made headlines, but its global political impact was limited by its presentation in Hebrew.
According to Haaretz, “An analysis of the data reveals that, in the vast majority of the settlements – about 75 percent – construction, sometimes on a large scale, has been carried out without the appropriate permits or contrary to the permits that were issued,”, and “The database also shows that, in more than 30 settlements, extensive construction of buildings and infrastructure (roads, schools, synagogues, yeshivas and even police stations) has been carried out on private lands belonging to Palestinian West Bank residents.”
Posted on Monday, 22 October, 2007 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
This documentary about Leila, a teen-aged girl in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, will premiere in the Stockholm International Film Festival in November 2007. This clip has just been re-released in English. The film gives a taste of what’s been going on there every day for 40 years.
Unfortunately, outside of a clip on YouTube and a little profile on Facebook, I’m not seeing it so promoted around the InterWeb. Link? Site? Full movie download anyone? The issue of rabid religious settlers controlling this town with the help of US tax dollars is far enough off the mainstream media radar without the rest of us helping keep it hidden. Freaking post this thing, people.
“Identity is our legacy and not our inheritance; our invention and not our memory.”