Posted on September 24, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
there was great news coming from the united nations the other day, but like the goldstone report, unless there’s teeth to back it up it will fall by the wayside. it seems that finally the united nations is not going to treat the zionist entity with kid gloves any more when it comes to their [...]
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Posted on September 21, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
here are two inspiring rap songs showing solidarity with palestinians and against colonialism, imperialism and military occupation more generally. the first comes from the palestine education project and the second from rebel diaz:
also check out this interview between minister of information jr and mutulu olugbala, otherwise known [...]
Filed under: Africa, Apartheid, Colonialism, Egypt, Human Rights, Imperialism, Militarization, Music, Occupation, Palestine, Prisons, Racism, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Policy, Zionism | Tagged: black panther, Cairo, charles barron, cleveland, Cynthia McKinney, dead prez, Fatah, Gaza, george galloway, graffiti, Hamas, Henry Kissinger, hip hop, immortal technique, kensington, m1, minister of information jr, mutulu olugbala, nancy mansour, new york, palestine education project, philadelphia, rafah, rebel diaz, san francisco bay view news, scandanavia, shadia mansour, south central los angeles, West Bank, Yassir Arafat | 2 Comments »
Posted on August 30, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
jordan flaherty, who is one of my favorite journalists has covered, and continues to cover, the man-made disaster that is new orleans after hurricane katrina has a new article marking the four year anniversary, which details the ongoing state of homelessness in new orleans in black agenda report:
Crawling through a hole in a fence and [...]
Filed under: Colonialism, Gaza, Militarization, Occupation, Palestine, Poverty, Prisons, Racism, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Policy, Zionism | Leave a Comment »
Posted on August 30, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
one way palestinians and indigenous americans are alike is the long history of political imprisonment. it’s yet another means of separating people and destroying resistance recently leonard peltier was denied parole yet again. last week his attorney, eric seitz, wrote about it for the san francisco bay view news while going over some details of [...]
Filed under: Activism, Africa, Colonialism, Indigenous, Media, Militarization, Obama, Occupation, Palestine, Prisons, Racism, Resistance, U.S. Policy, teaching | Tagged: Al Jazeera, american indian, Arabic, arapaho, carlyle, carlyle indian school, catholic, christian, CIA, congress, Dahr Jamail, delaware, eric holder, eric seitz, fbi, George Bush, hebrew, king alfonso v, lenape, leonard peltier, native american, parole, pennsylvania, pine ridge reservation, pope nicholas v, portugal, rageh omaar, san francisco bay view news, shawnee, steven newcomb, Teedyuschung, tish keahna, torture, truthout, wind river reservation | Leave a Comment »
Posted on August 19, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
there are so many reasons why i don’t live in the u.s. any more. why i can barely stand coming back here at all. but i do it to see my grandma because she is the one reason that it remains difficult for me to live abroad. i’ve spent the last couple of weeks cleaning [...]
Filed under: Economy, Environment, Film, Imperialism, Iraq, Labor, Media, Militarization, Obama, Occupation, Palestine, Poverty, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Policy | Tagged: 20th century fox, agriculture, ann veneman, Barack Obama, beverly hills, Bollgard, bones, bt cotton, calgene, Canada, censorship, China, clarence thomas, coffee, diabetes, doha, don rumsfeld, eric scholler, farmers, food, food riots, fox tv, free trade, fungicides, futurama, future of food, genetically modified, george h.w. bush, gm seeds, greenhouse gasses, groundwork coffee, handicapped, health, herbicides, hollywood, house md, hugh laurie, imf, inc., India, karbala, king corn, levant, Los Angeles, michael pollan, Monsanto, nancy scola, new york times, ngos, nutrition, oil, order 81, paul bremer, pbs, percy schmeiser, pesticides, Poverty, richard karno, robert cohen, Roundup, saskatchewan, searle, seeds, the dying fields, the simpsons, tommy thompson, vandana shiva, Vidarbha, Wall Street, world bank | 3 Comments »
Posted on August 13, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
last week i was at ucsb (university of california at santa barbara) and there was a protest against the california budget cuts affecting education in the state. one of my favorite scholars, lisa hajjar, a professor at ucsb, and author of courting conflict, explains some of these issues here in this short clip from a [...]
Filed under: Academic Freedom, Apartheid, Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions, Colonialism, Gaza, Labor, Militarization, Occupation, Palestine, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Policy, Universities, Zionism | Tagged: Germany, Gaza, South Africa, UCLA, jerusalem, Hawai'i, Washington, Alaska, anti-Semitism, Anti-Defamation League, Stand With Us, Holocaust Museum, washington dc, Hebrew University, durban, american jewish committee, jewish, white phosphorous, patrick craven, cosatu, nazis, san francisco, satawu, naomi wolf, state department, william robinson, ucsb, university of california santa barbara, naomi wo, international longshore & warehouse union, joanna russ, South African Transport and Allied Workers Union, Confederation of South African Trade Unions, Nedlloyd Kimberly, oregon, Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific, International Longshore and Warehouse Union, yousef baker, Committee to Defend Academic Freedom at UCSB, American Association of University Professors, aaup, cary nelson, first amendment, anti-sem, roz rothstein, university of texas, michael drak, uc irvine, hadassah, philadelphia, ukranian, judy yudof, hillel, united synagogue of conservative judaism, chris harrington, israel on campus coalition, gordon gladstone, Chaim Seidler-Feller, carole migden | Leave a Comment »
Posted on August 3, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
i’m at “home” in los angeles. where i was born. where i grew up. because i am allowed to go home. something palestinians are not allowed to do. something so simple as going home. i picked up a copy of the weekly publication la weekly which had a feature story in it about a palestinian [...]
Filed under: Apartheid, Colonialism, Human Rights, Jordan, Media, Occupation, Palestine, Poverty, Refugees, U.S. Policy, Zionism | Tagged: bed bath & beyond, la weekly, Los Angeles, naser nasralla, northridge | Leave a Comment »
Posted on July 22, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
i spent the weekend with most of the students in my indigenous american class from ibdaa cultural center in deheishe refugee camp, which i have been teaching here to give the youth more of a background on american colonialism and occupation of native land before a group of american indians come on a solidarity visit [...]
Filed under: Apartheid, Colonialism, Indigenous, Militarization, Occupation, Palestine, Refugees, U.S. Policy, Zionism | Tagged: Deheishe refugee camp, Middle East Children's Alliance, normalization, dabke, salfit, ibdaa cultural center, taibe, shu'fat refugee camp, balata refugee camp, birzeit, american indian, indigenous youth delegation to palestine, seventh native american generation magazine, huaxtec, haskell university, taibe beer, break dancing, oud, youth solidarity network, palestine education project, happy childhood club, palestinian child center, women for life, flowers against the occupation, biddia | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 18, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
intercontinental cry published this urgent action the other day about the miwok tribe in california that is being forced off of their land:
We need immediate assistance, this is the outcome from Troy Burdick’s (Superintendent at the Central California Agency/BIA, located in Sacramento Calif.) continued efforts to illegally interfere into our Tribal Governmental Affairs (and the [...]
Filed under: Activism, Colonialism, Human Rights, Indigenous, Militarization, Obama, Racism, Resistance, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Policy | Tagged: akwesasne, bia, bureau of indian affairs, california, california valley miwok tribe, Canada, cromwell island, Haudenosaunee nations, intercontinental cry, larry echohawk, miwok, mowhawk, russell means, sacramento, silvia burley, stephen harper, troy burdick, United Nations | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 30, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
this week five men from the holy land foundation were sentenced to prison terms. here are the details from democracy now!’s coverage, and if you click the link below you can watch goodman and gonzalez’s report:
JUAN GONZALEZ: Five founders of a Muslim charity have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms in a controversial case that [...]
Filed under: Apartheid, Colonialism, Human Rights, Islam, Media, Militarization, Obama, Occupation, Palestine, Racism, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Policy, Zionism | Tagged: abdulrahman odeh, amy goodman, dallas, democracynow!, fufid abdulqader, George Bush, ghassan elashi, Hamas, holy land foundation, juan gonzalez, martin luther king jr., mohammed el-mezain, muslim, shukri abu-baker, united states | 2 Comments »
