on media manipulation and the coup in honduras

i’m still catching up on work and news while i was away at summer camp. one of the important developments was the military coup in hondoruas. john pilger was on democracy now! with amy goodman while i was away discussing this coup as well as the way the u.s. responded to honduras in comparison to [...]

“the genocide of the fta”

milagros salazar published an important report in ips with eyewitness accounts of the survivors of the massacre against indigenous awajun and wambis indians in peru:
Sobbing, an indigenous woman dressed in black cries out as she sees us arrive: “My son, my son, they have killed my son!” She is Andrea Rocca, the mother of Felipe [...]

building momentum against israeli apartheid

many of you know that it is now israel apartheid week around the world and also here in palestine (i will paste in the information about events in palestine below because the link here to the apartheid website does not seem to be updated yet). there are all kinds of things you can [...]

on hope and change (for real)

yesterday afternoon, after classes finished, i headed to the al yasmeen hotel for a talk that our boycott group was sponsoring. the talk, however, was not about boycott; it was about barack obama. naively, i had suspected that the speakers would be critical of obama. i expected the speakers to speak from a radical, or [...]

analogizing gaza; or, what’s in a name?

quiqui is on a roll today on kabobfest. first she asks us: when it will be time for us all to overthrow our governments? then she asks us, sarcastically, how’s that “ceasefire” is working out given the fact that more palestinians were murdered by israeli terrorists today. she cites this story from ma’an news:
A Gazan [...]

from nahr el bared to gaza

aside from a seeing a few friends while in beirut, i’ve been kind of hiding out. just don’t feel like going out. just don’t feel like being in spaces where beirutis are out laughing and having fun. but i leave rania’s house for the obligatory 3 hours a day when the electricity is cut. i [...]

american meddling

Disturbing news from Lebanon. It seems that in the midst of UNRWA’s financial crisis and the failure of anyone to do anything to help people from Nahr el Bared refugee camp, where at least 20,000 out of the original population of 31,000 are still not allowed to return to their homes–and destroyed homes at that–the [...]

southern solidarity

I love this photograph of Hugo Chavez. If only more leaders in this world would have the courage to follow his example. Here is a sample from an interesting article by Nikhil Shah entitled Venezuela’s Support for Palestine, a model for third world democracy about Chavez’s moral courage:
One exception to this diplomatic capitulation to Israel [...]