Posts Tagged ‘Gaza’
Latin America Speaks Out For Gaza
9:27 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism| Gaza| Latin America| Palestine · Comments Off
5 Jan 2009
People across Latin America are crying out against the Israeli attack on the people of Gaza.
In Oaxaca, Mexico, Mexican police arrested at least 20 people as they went to the U.S. Consulate to protest.
In the middle of the day, today, Saturday the 3rd of January, 2009, a massive detention took place of over 20 compañeros and compañeras who set out to peacefully protest in front of the U.S. Consulate in Oaxaca, repulsed by the genocide perpetuated by Israel against the Palestinian people.
From the information we have received, these detentions took place as the protestors headed toward the Consulate, located in Santo Domingo de Guzmán, in Oaxaca City. Without warning, the police forces, through unproportionable and unjustified force, launched an assault against them before the protest was even able to take place.
Obama Wants to Resolve Puerto Rico’s Colonial Status While Saying Nothing on Assault on Occupied Palestine
11:03 am By Maegan La Mala · Gaza| Palestine| Politics| Puerto Rico · 17 Comments
4 Jan 2009
President Elect Obama sent a message to Puerto Rico for the swearing in of the new, pro-statehood governor, Luis G. Fortuño.
President-elect of the United States Barack Obama reiterated that he will try to resolve the colonial case of Puerto Rico during his first term and explained that self-determination is a “basic right” of Puerto Ricans, for which reason he will undertake responsibility for seeing that Puerto Ricans have “a voice” in the solution.
Wait, a voice in the solution? Am I wrong in thinking that if self-determination is a basic right, then shouldn’t Puerto Ricans decided the solution, not just have a voice?
Nothing New for Gaza in the New Year
10:30 am By Maegan La Mala · Gaza| Palestine| israel · Comments Off
1 Jan 2009
This morning in Gaza was like that last five mornings. There was no confetti littering the streets, instead the streets are stained with blood and filled with cries and fears of more attacks from Israel as the death toll likely has passed the 400 mark and more than 2,000 have been wounded in the strikes. The UN has said at least 25 per cent of the dead are civilians. One of the dead is a senior leader of the Palestinian Hamas movement, Nizar Rayyan. Four Israelis have been killed by home-made rockets fired by the Palestinian factions since the Israeli operation started. In airstrikes this morning a children’s hospital in Gaza City was damaged (I’m sure that hospital for children was a Hamas training ground ::eye roll::)
Yesterday, the Israeli cabinet rejected a French proposal to agree a 48-hour ceasefire and now Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s president, is to meet Tzipi Livni, Israel’s foreign minister, to try and attempt to broker a truce to allow humanitarian aid into the besieged Gaza Strip
Nothing more threatening than a former U.S Congresswoman/former U.S. Presidential candidate bringing medical supplies to Gaza. Add this to an ever growing list of international laws Israel is breaking.
Via / Prison Planet
What is Obama Waiting for to Say Anything on Gaza?
2:00 pm By Maegan La Mala · Gaza| Politics · 6 Comments
30 Dec 2008
President-Elect Obama has officially said “no comment” in response to the mass murder that is happening right now in Gaza. His advisers are speaking however and are showing where loyalties are.
It was the single deadliest attack on Gaza in over 20 years and Obama’s initial reaction on what could be his first real test as president was “no comment”. Meanwhile, Israel has readied itself for a land invasion, amassing tanks along the border and calling up 6,500 reserve troops.
On Sunday’s “Face the Nation,” Obama’s Senior Adviser David Axelrod explained to guest host Chip Reid how an Obama administration would handle the situation, even if it turns for the worst.
“Well, certainly, the president-elect recognizes the special relationship between United States and Israel. It’s an important bond, an important relationship. He’s going to honor it … And obviously, this situation has become even more complicated in the last couple of days and weeks. As Hamas began its shelling, Israel responded. But
it’s something that he’s committed to.”
What the U.S. Media Isn’t Showing You from Gaza
2:42 pm By Maegan La Mala · Gaza · 3 Comments
29 Dec 2008Warning: The following images show graphic violence, what you will not see in the mainstream U.S. media because they want us to believe that what is happening is deserved, even to the children of Gaza.
As violent as the images are, we need to see them so that we know. So that we don’t just swallow the information being fed to us as to who is being targeted in Gaza. We need to know because the U.S. is complicit in this wave of death and we need to not just feel, but act.
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More on Israeli Attack on Gaza
29 Dec 2008The news, images and stories coming out of Gaza gets more and more disturbing and angering. I know here in the NYC there was a rally yesterday, one planned for today and another one tomorrow. I will try to make my way to one, weather and children permitting.
The death toll has almost reached 300, with Israel saying this is just the beginning and congratulating itself on it’s restraint.
This is what restraint looks like apparently.
Israel Launches Air Strike Against Gaza
27 Dec 2008
I woke up this morning to the horrific and angering news that Israel launched an air strike against Gaza. Israel says it is attacking Hamas targets in an attack that so far has claimed 180 lives (I’m sure by the time I hit publish the death toll will have risen). Hundreds are reported injured.
Mustafa Barghouthi, the former Palestinian information minister, said: “This is not an attack on the Hamas. It is an attack on the whole population and the free will of the people of Gaza.”
He accused Israel of committing “war crimes” and demanded that Abbas and his government stop all relations with Israel.
The Israel army released a statement saying “terrorist installations” were hit and that all Israeli pilots returned unharmed.
Palestinian officials called on the international community to condemn the raids [AFP]
The operation against the Hamas is “only just beginning,” Avi Benayahu, an Israeli military spokesman said.
Via / Al Jazeera, Problem Chylde
An Arguement Against a Border Wall : Gaza
1:36 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Politics| israel · Comments Off
25 Jan 2008
While it’s clearly not the same thing as the U.S. – Mexico border debate, the fact that Gazans made another border wall hole on the Gaza-Egypt border wall, is proof positive that the presence of a physical barrier is not going to stop the movement of people, especially when those people are pushed to the brink. Hundreds of thousands have surged into Egypt to buy scarce supplies caused by a recent tightening of a blockade of Gaza.
Both border tightenings are being done in the name of homeland security, to keep racialized undesirables out. Both rely on a climate of fear to succeed and earn support.
It is an international border, it needs to be protected
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Via / BBC
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