May 17, 2018
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This is how to do it: A new land occupation in Germiston, South Africa
On 11 May 2018, more than two hundred people occupied unused land in Germiston, on the East Rand in Gauteng, South Africa. We laid out our design for the occupation in the afternoon, built throughout the night and slept on the occupied land. Around 350 stands have been marked out via a democratic and carefully… Continue reading
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Gaza News Links 16-17 May 2018
16 May 2018 18:16:42 — williambowles.info Murder as a way to make a political point http://mondoweiss.net/2018/05/murder-political-point/ Israel Commemorates Nakba with Mass Murder at the Gaza Fence http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheGreanvillePost/~3/9G291GlXfO4/ Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 17 May 2018: Gaza Massacre Democrats' Baby Too, 500 Years of Nakbas, Black Support for Police State, Kanye & Black Unemployment
17 May 2018 — Black Agenda Report Deafening Silence of Democrats on Gaza Massacre Is Because It’s Their Baby Too – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Democratic party leaders are as always firmly behind their Israeli clients, and their party machinery remains under lock and key. Apartheid laws and periodic mass killings are Continue reading
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500 Years of Nakbas By Glen Ford
The great nakba, or “catastrophe,”began in 1492, when Christopher Columbus proclaimed the lands of the “Indies” for Spain. Within half a century of his voyage, 95 percent of the inhabitants of the America’s had been killed by European-borne diseases, war, famine and enslavement: 100 million dead, or one out of every five human beings on… Continue reading
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Israeli forces continue systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt)
17 May 2018 — PCHR (10 – 16 May 2018) Israeli forces continued to use appallingly lethal force against Palestinian peaceful protestors in the Gaza Strip. In another bloody week, 46 Palestinian civilians, including 7 children and a wheelchair-bound man, were killed. Continue reading
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'Most Americans Say They Want Protections for the Open Internet' By Janine Jackson
Janine Jackson: All social justice fights intersect in some way. But net neutrality is the definition of a keystone issue: The policy protects the space in which to discuss and debate and organize all the other fights, the means to talk around the legacy media gatekeepers—the ones who tell you that killing people in other… Continue reading
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The Gaza Massacre. Western Governments Complicit in Crimes against Humanity
16 May 2018 — Global Research News Western Governments Complicit in Crimes against Humanity. “Israel has the Right to Defend itself” Says Trump By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, May 16, 2018 Not a single Western country has sofar ordered the expulsion of Israeli diplomats in protest over the mass killings of Palestinian civilians by IDF snipers, including children. A Continue reading
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NYT Edit Board Are Last Humans on Earth Who Believe US Neutral in Israel/Palestine Conflict By Adam Johnson
The fact that the United States favors Israel in its decades-long “conflict” with the Palestinians is not a subjective or abstract question; it’s a well-established empirical fact. The US gives over $3 billion a year in military aid to Israel (more than the US spends on aid for the last seven countries it’s bombed combined),… Continue reading
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