Dear friends and allies, On October 22 to 24, 2010, a historic conference will take place inMontreal which aims to consolidate and move forward the movement forBoycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid. read more
In just a few years the Palestinian campaign to boycott Israeli goods has become truly global writes Omar Barghouti for The Guardian 12 August 2010. read more
call for submissions: Montreal July 2010 http://imagingapartheid.org/downloads/imagingapartheid_call.pdf As the global movement in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation continues to grow, we are calling on graphic designers and artists to submit their work to IMAGING APARTHEID: the Poster Project for Palestine. read more
From the New Economics Institute: In its report "The Great Transition" our London partners the New Economics Foundation (neweconomics.org) sketch an outline of how to reach what E. F. Schumacher would have called an "economy of permanence." The sections of the report include: The Great Revaluing, the Great Redistribution, the Great Rebala […]
Wow - over 85,000 of you have joined our boycott of companies that advertise on FOX News, and these companies are definitely getting the message. In a few days we will send you a short list of companies that have ignored our requests, so you can become personally involved if you like. Beyond our boycott, we should also reward companies that have never advert […]
By John Grant Last Saturday, I pondered America’s soul. I was in Portland, Maine, attending the annual Veterans For Peace convention, which featured Chris Hedges as its keynote speaker. Hedges, a Harvard divinity graduate who worked for many years as a war correspondent in El Salvador, Bosnia and other very violent places, gave a take-no-prisoners speech t […]
Rove: September 9th-11th, Faith & Freedom Conference and Strategy Briefing with Karl Rove, The Mayflower Renaissance Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington DC https://secure.ffcoalition.com/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=1 Rove: September 14, 2010, 12:00pm, ACC PAC - Karl Rove Luncheon, Johnny's Half Shell, 400 North Capitol St., NW […]
I just listened to this interview and can now say what many, me included, have thought all along, not only about him but as to our own previous administration, he's certifiably crazy! I mean that in the so called World View, especially of righteousness, he just spoke. What's going on has Nothing to do with any religious ideology but does for those […]
Katrina's Destructive Aftermath - by Stephen Lendman August 29, 2005, a day of infamy remembered less for the storm, catastrophic floods and destruction, and more as a metaphor for disaster capitalism, exploiting security threats, "terror" attacks, economic meltdowns, and "natural" disasters like Katrina. It turned this aging senior […]
Of course it's guilty of many, but Daphne Eviatar has in mind one in particular: On Saturday, the New York Times reported that administration officials are "alarmed" by the military commission case of Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen seized as a 15-year-old by U.S. forces in Afghanistan who's now spent a third of his life in the U.S. pris […]