Archive for March, 2006
Making Palestine Visible Again
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006 | Posted in ISM Digests1. Israeli Supreme Court: State Must Defend why Settlement Expansion Near Bil’in Should not be Demolished
2. AP Erases Video of Israeli Soldier Shooting Palestinian Boy
3. The Earth According to Google: Where is Palestine?
4. A Sad Day: for Rachel Corrie
5. The Heroes of Tel Rumeida
Amy Goodman and James Zogby Host Event to Honor the Words and Life of Rachel Corrie
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006 | Posted in Press ReleasesWhen: 8:00 PM Wednesday, March 22,
Where: Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive, New York, New York
Available for media contact: Ann Petter: 212.246.7528, Tom Wallace: 617.461.1041
Hosted by: Amy Goodman and James Zogby
Participants include: Cindy & Craig Corrie, Anthony Arnove, Huwaida Arraf, Brian Avery,...
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Israeli Supreme Court: State Must Defend why Settlement Expansion Near Bil’in Should not be Demolished
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006 | Posted in Press Releases, Bil'in Village, ISM Media AlertsOn the 21st of March the Israeli State and other parties were ordered to respond to a petition filed by Peace Now and head of the Council of Bil’in.
Defendants must convince the Court that construction plans for the illegal Matityahu East settlement should not be annulled. They must also explain why demolition orders should not be...
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AP Erases Video of Israeli Soldier Shooting Palestinian Boy
Monday, March 20th, 2006 | Posted in Press Releases, Nablus RegionBy Alison Weir
“The trend toward secrecy is the greatest threat to democracy.”
- Associated Press CEO, in a speech about the importance of openness
“The official response is we decline to respond.”
- Associated Press Director of Media Relations, replying to questions about AP
The Heroes of Tel Rumeida
Sunday, March 19th, 2006 | Posted in Reports, Hebron RegionBy Mary Baxter
The heroes of Tel Rumeida are twelve children, who need to pass by or through the Tel Rumeida Israeli settlement to get to school. They are from about 5 to 14 years old. They are frightened of the settlers who threaten and at times attack them. But still they come six days a week. Israeli settler children travel by bus past...
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South African Unions Rally for Palestine
Saturday, March 18th, 2006 | Posted in Press clippings, Boycott & sanctionsPrinted in Morning Star Monday, March 13
by Richard Bagley
Top South African Trade Unionist Willy Madisha issued a white-hot condemnation of Israel’s apartheid policies at a London conference on Saturday.
Addressing the Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s trade union conference...
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A Sad Day: for Rachel Corrie
Saturday, March 18th, 2006 | Posted in Rachel CorrieBy Starhawk
March 17, 2006
Yesterday was a sad day. The third anniversary of the death of Rachel Corrie, crushed by a bulldozer in Rafah, in the Gaza strip. All day the sky glowered, dark and oppressive, while from time to time drenching showers rained down, as if nature herself were weeping.
Too Hot for New York
Saturday, March 18th, 2006 | Posted in Press Releases, Rachel CorrieOriginally printed in The Nation
by Philip Weiss
The slim book that was suddenly the most controversial work in the West in early March was not easy to find in the United States. Amazon said it wasn’t available till April. The Strand bookstore didn’t have it either. You...
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