Posts Tagged ‘Palestine’
Colombian Solidarity Demonstrations for Gaza Make the Colonialism Connection
8:00 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism| Colombia| Gaza| Palestine · Comments Off
8 Jan 2009While I know some readers don’t appreciate the connection I made between U.S. colonialism in Latin America and what is happening in Gaza, in Latin American protests against the continuing massacre of people in Gaza, the connections are being made.
The Colombian blog Equinoxio has some images and audio from a march on Tuesday in the capital city of Bogotá.
Justify This : Israel bombs UN School
10:29 am By Maegan La Mala · Gaza| Palestine| israel · 8 Comments
7 Jan 2009
While the message that many are parroting, even in comments here and everywhere in the mainstream media, is that the Israeli assault on the people of Gaza is an act of self-defense. As if a nation who is propped up gracias to the patronage of the United States needs that much defense against hand made rockets from people who right now are burying their children. Explain to me how bombing a United Nation school full of refugee children is an act of self defense and not an act of showing extreme power, of sending the message to the people of Gaza that “We will kill your children”.
Israel’s Assault on the People of Gaza: Cluster Bombs, White Phosphorous, and Depleted Uranium
11:00 am By Maegan La Mala · Gaza| Palestine| israel · Comments Off
6 Jan 2009
Israel, with United States sponsorship is now using chemical weapons against the people of Gaza, including white phosphorous.
From Kabobfest:
What did Saddam Hussein use in his Halabja poison gas attack, along with other chemical weapons?White phosphorous.
The US used this very same chemical weapon in the attack on Falluja in 2004.
The Geneva Conventions make the use of white phosphorous as a chemical weapon illegal and when you read the effects of it, it’s easy to see why.
It ignites on contact with oxygen. Particles on a person can be temporarily extinguished with water, but as soon as they are dry they will recombust. Longer-term exposure causes poisoning, which leads to wounds of the mouth and eventual destruction of the whole jawbone.
Exposure to white phosphorus smoke in the air can also cause liver, kidney, heart, lung or bone damage and even death.
Israel insists that it is using white phosphorous as a smoke screen.
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?
Israeli Diamonds Are Not Salma Hayak’s Best Friend
8:23 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism| Celebrities| Gaza| Palestine| Women| israel · 2 Comments
2 Jan 2009
Mexicana and la Macha’s secret girlfriend, Salma Hayak doesn’t want to be associated with Israeli blood diamonds.
Apparently Salmita asked that Jewish-American billionaire Lev Leviev remove her picture from his diamond store website after Leviev was linked to settlement expansion in the West Bank and right-wing Zionist causes.
Other actresses who also want to keep their distance include Sharon Stone, Whitney Houston, Halle Berry, Drew Barrymore, Brooke Shields, Andie Macdowell, and Lucy Liu.
The celebrities were contacted by the rights group Adalah and the New York based ‘Jews Against the Occupation’ and asked them to distance themselves from a corporation that supports the Zionist project.
The stars took action only after being contacted by the activists working to expose Leviev’s anti-human rights agenda.
Via / Kabobfest
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
Blog About Palestine Day : Palestinians in Chile
1:17 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Chile| Palestine · Comments Off
15 May 2008
Today is Blog About Palestine Day, because today is also the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, marking the beginning of the modern age Palestinian plight and suffering. This date is remembered annually on local, regional, and global levels. Tonight in the Southern Cone nation there is even an event: Transformar El Dolor en Amor: Mass Demonstration 6:30pm, Plaza De La Constitucion, in the capital of Santiago.
In Chile, there is a large population of Palestinians, that has been growing in recent months. Chile has the largest Palestinian community outside of the Arab world, making up about 5% of the overall population. This is the fourth largest Palestinian pressence in the world after those in Israel, Lebanon and Jordan.
The Puerto Rico Palestine Connection
11:49 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Events| Politics| Puerto Rico · 6 Comments
27 Aug 2007
Both are considered occupied territories and one Puerto Rican activist wants to make that fact crystal clear. Tito Kayak is conducting a speaking and film tour throughout Puerto Rico and the United States. In Puerto Rico the tour will take place Aug. 23-31 in Puerto Rico and in the U.S. Sept. 1.-21.
Puerto Rico to Palestine: Uniting Struggles in Defense of the Land On April 20, ‘07 Puerto Rican Activist Tito Kayak scaled 10 story Israeli Surveillance tower & unfurled Palestinian Flag as Palestinian Film Journalist Emad Bornat documented the action.
The two will speak and show the documentary “Bil’in Against the Wall”.
Puerto Rico’s Tito Kayak Under Arrest in Israel
12:28 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Puerto Rico| israel · Comments Off
24 Apr 2007
A 48 year old Puerto Rican activist, Alberto de Jesus aka Tito Kayak, who made himself especially known protesting the U.S. Navy presence on Vieques, is currently under house arrest in Israel after he climbed a tower near Israel’s West Bank separation barrier and planted a Palestinian flag on it. De Jesus, who has been under arrest since Friday, was originally held in a prison in Beth El Settlement, near the city of Ramallah then placed under house arrest.
De Jesus initially was arrested after climbing a six-story surveillance tower alongside the separation barrier, near the West Bank town of Bilin. De Jesus stayed stayed on the tower for five hours and flew a large Palestinian flag, as part of a weekly protest by peace activists against the barrier.Police were unavailable to comment Tuesday, Israel’s independence day, but earlier said De Jesus would most likely be deported.
Tito’s actions were part of other actions protesting the barrier which Israel says is needed to keep militants out while Palestinians say the wall is part of continued Israeli encroachment on Palestinian land.
Via / CNN
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