January 2010
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Gaza Freedom March Wrap Up
I’m sure its going to take me some time to process everything that has happened in Cairo with the Gaza Freedom March over the past week or so but here are some of my initial thoughts and feelings. Bear in mind, these are my own opinions and reflections and they surely are not the same… Continue reading
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WALKERS FOR GAZA: DAYS 2 AND 3 (VIDEO) – GAZA FREEDOM MARCH
This Wednesday, December 30, 2009, we continue our protest and our mobilization to return to us to Gaza. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Egyptian police beat Gaza peace activists and the boy in the rubble
As Egyptian police beat peace activists, reports for Gaza break our hearts. Never forget that it is Israeli war crimes and Israeli/U.S. pressure that is keeping the people of Gaza bombed back to the mud age, It is Israel who has maimed, arrested and killed Palestinians, Internationals and Israelis who stand in support. Egypt’s orders… Continue reading
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Protests held against Gaza siege
Activists, both from Gaza and abroad, have held demonstrations on either side of an Israeli border crossing to the Palestinian territory, protesting against its continued siege by Israel. Continue reading
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Gaza Freedom March in Israel
For months international, Israeli, and Palestinian activists have been planning the Gaza Freedom March. Organizers hoped an international delegation of 1300 activists from around the world would break the siege on Gaza by marching through Gaza to the northern border and through the Erez crossing, join the Israeli march. The Real News attended the Israeli… Continue reading
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Q&A with Moazzam Begg, Omar Deghayes, Andy Worthington and Polly Nash
On October 21, at the launch of the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington) at the Cochrane Theatre in London. Spectacle, the production company, filmed the Q&A session following the screening, in which Moazzam Begg, Omar Deghayes, Andy Worthington and Polly Nash took questions from… Continue reading
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2010: U.S. To Wage War Throughout The World By Rick Rozoff
31 December, 2009 — Stop NATO January 1 will usher in the last year of the first decade of a new millennium and ten consecutive years of the United States conducting war in the Greater Middle East. Beginning with the October 7, 2001 missile and bomb attacks on Afghanistan, American combat operations abroad have not Continue reading
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Stuart Littlewood – Reaching the Gates of Hell is not so Easy
31 December, 2009 — Palestine Think Tank (VIA Redress) Egyptian ruler Mubarak torpedoes international voluntary aid to Gaza Stuart Littlewood considers the predicament of the Viva Palestina international humanitarian convoy – the culmination of voluntary work by thousands of supporters, fund-raisers and donors in the UK, Europe and internationally – whose journey to besieged Gaza Continue reading
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Shoeless in Cairo by Mary Hughes-Thompson
In about an hour the Gaza Freedom Marchers in Cairo will be meeting in Tahrir Square to celebrate the beginning of 2010. January 1st will be the fifth day of my hunger strike. Continue reading
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Viva Palestina: Today we marched!
Nur it was wonderful … Tahrir Square we swarmed the place like ants. French, British, Egyptians, Palestinians we were everwhere flying flags, waving Kafeyahs … shouting and chanting … It was wonderful … The Egyptians hung out of windows and we cursed Mubarak … Continue reading
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Cairo meets the movement, with tears and chaos and exaltation By Philip Weiss
Over the last week, as the international marchers arrived in Egypt, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry made it very clear that it did not want them going into Gaza, and it would arrest them short of that goal. But these 1400 are not tourists or milquetoasts, they are activists; and they were not going to be… Continue reading
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Truth cast in lead By Michael Sfard
Many groups are observing the one-year anniversary of the Gaza “Cast Lead” campaign, which is part of the many-year war against Gaza, with no end in sight. Gaza remains under a cruel and barbaric siege. Of the commemorative articles I have read, this piece, written by Israeli lawyer activist Michael Sfard, and translated by the… Continue reading