What do you stand for?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR6bt9_Yn5o After five hours of rallies and marches on justice for Palestine and Ferguson, 1,500 protesters were in Union Square park in Manhattan, all with their hands up for Mike Brown. When the crowd took their hands down, a voice from the crowd told them “Mike Brown never took his hands down. The dead children [...]
http://youtu.be/BhDsaGGNcQU In launching Operation Protective Edge, Israel has stated it has a goal of achieving “sustained calm in the region.” To achieve this, they maintained, they needed to destroy the tunnels and do anything required to protect Israeli citizens. It is hard to reconcile the destruction of over 134 factories in Gaza (and counting) with sustained [...]
http://youtu.be/ZLxCZoUZeUw Awareness of, and commitment to the movement of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is growing both here in the United States and around the world. Describing BDS in an early 2014 piece, Beth Perry wrote: “It’s a broad tactic aimed to pressure the state itself to change. But it also reserves a special focus [...]
http://youtu.be/U46-lN4g8kg White by Khashayar Nikazmrad White phosphorus burning meat off the civilian bones, burning the single moms hopes of peace, chemical gas greeting the dusty morning sunshine, shelling orchestrating a symphony of death, breath by breath, the long forgotten dream of survival awakens the nightmare of Israel’s arrival, Airstrikes, ground invasion, the rape and theft [...]
Originally posted at: PopularResistance.org http://youtu.be/eAkKcc_2-S0 In this clip from the full-length Acronym TV program, Gaza Solidarity Grows as Israel Continues Massacre (http://bit.ly/1ALhy5l) Kash Nikazmrad, an organizer with Students for Justice in Palestine, discusses the current siege on Gaza with host Dennis Trainor, Jr. Nikazmrad echoed the statement issued by Palestinian civil society organizations (http://electronicintifada.net/content/palestinian-orgs-justice-delayed-justice-denied/992) on 3 October 2009, which reads in [...]
Originally Posted at PopularResistance.org http://youtu.be/KtLob1by09U The Hamas charter, widely cited by defenders of the Israeli siege on Gaza, contains some passages that hard to reconcile for many allied with Palestinian liberation. Specifically, the charter states: “The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: ‘The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems [...]