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PSC Update 30 April 09
PSC Weekly Update Thursday 30 April Actions Stop Veolia running the London Cycle Hire scheme! Book your place now on coaches to 16 May demonstration Gaza 100 run for Gaza! News Gaza depends on tunnels for food, fuel, medicines Watch Seven Jewish Children online Israel’s secret plan for West Bank expansion Israel continues using Palestinians as human shields Israel’s imprisons more Palestinian children Visiting Daddy in Prison: A Palestinian Ordeal Israel harasses peace activists Actions 1.… Read the rest
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Just A Random Thought On Art in Second Life And In General
If your only motivation for making art is to sell it and your main intellectual preoocupation is not the work itself but how to productise it, then you’re not an artist. You’re just a self-stocking shop. Hazel Dooney: How Not To Sell Your Soul http://www.homepagedaily.com/Pages/article6793-hazel-dooney-how-not-to-sell-your-soul.aspx… Read the rest
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Remember Gaza… End the Siege now! – Free Palestine! National Demo May 16 2009
Remember Gaza… End the Siege now! – Free Palestine! National Demonstration 16 May London With a growing number of supporting organisations, listed in the e-flyer below, we want to ask all members and supporters to help mobilise for the national demonstration on May 16.… Read the rest
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ISM Digest: April 5, 2009
1. Israeli forces impose collective punishment on Saffa village following attack on settler youth 2. Land Day Demonstration in Halhul, Hebron District 3. Warmth and support 4. The Lentils Did Ok Today 5. Thousands of dunums confiscated for Israeli settler road near Nablus 6.… Read the rest
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ISM Update 8 April 09: Funds needed for Tristan Anderson’s medical expenses
PLEASE FORWARD THIS UPDATE WIDELY Tristan Anderson, an American citizen, was critically injured during a demonstration in the West Bank village of Ni’lin. Anderson was shot in the head with a tear gas projectile from around 60 meters by Israeli forces on 13 March 2009.… Read the rest
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Palestine Solidarity Campaign – Events Update: 7 April 09
PSC Events Update – Trade Union Conference in Liverpool 18 April – Remember Gaza – Free Palestine! National Demonstration 16 May – Sponsored Walk in Dartmoor 4 & 5 July – PSC Day Conference in Birmingham 11 July – Other upcoming events ================================== Palestine Solidarity Trade Union Conference Saturday 18 April Quaker Meeting House, School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BT Registration, stalls, photos 10.00 Conference 11.00 – 4.00 A crèche will be available.… Read the rest
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ISM Digest 29 March 2009
DIGEST March 29, 2009 1. List of actions in Palestine for Land Day and Global BDS Day 2. Israeli forces violently disperse Hebron demonstration, one German citizen arrested 3. CPT: Palestinian shepherds resist settler violence and disruption 4. Settlers using government transition to step up construction, March 29, 2009 5.… Read the rest
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“The Most Moral Army In The World”
Well, that’s what the Israeli Prime Minister claims: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1149572658286 Althoug Ha’aretz thinks differently: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072821.html This is from the ISM Digest 15 March 2009. With my emphasis. You make up your own mind. 1. American citizen critically injured after being shot in the head by Israeli forces in Ni’lin Tristan Anderson from California USA, 37 years old, has been taken to Israeli hospital Tel Hashomer, near Tel Aviv.… Read the rest
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[ISM Updates] Digest March 22, 2009
Digest March 22, 2009 1) The Nation: Palestinian Revolution? 2) Speaking Truth to Power 3) IPS: Israelis Using ‘Excessive’ Force Against Protesters 4) Human rights workers to accompany farmers in Gaza 5) Six years without Rachel We still demand justice 6) Boycott Israel Action 7) Streets remain closed as army continues demolition attempts in Beit Safafa 8 ) Israeli soldiers reoccupy ‘House of Contention’ in Hebron 9) Israeli army attack non-violent demonstration and steal cameras in Burin, Nablus region 1.… Read the rest
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BBC: UN criticises Israelis over Gaza
I wanted to make sure this wasn’t forgotten. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7958452.stm UN criticises Israelis over Gaza UN human rights investigators have questioned the legality of Israel’s Gaza offensive in a wide-ranging report to the UN Human Rights Council. One investigator, Richard Falk, asked how a military assault with modern weapons could have been made “against an essentially defenceless society”.… Read the rest
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STOP THE WAR COALITION NEWSLETTER – 25 March 2009
STOP THE WAR COALITION NEWSLETTER No. 1087 25 March 2009 Email office@stopwar.org.uk Tel: 020 7801 2768 Web: http://www.stopwar.org.uk In this newsletter: 1) GET READY FOR A WEEK OF PROTEST 2) SAT 28 MARCH: PUT PEOPLE FIRST DEMONSTRATION 3) MON 30 MARCH: PUBLIC MEETING: MEET THE RESISTANCE 4) TUE 31 MARCH: STOP THE WAR PRESENTS LOWKEY 5) WED 1 APRIL: YES WE CAN DEMONSTRATION 6) THURS 2 APRIL, 11AM PROTEST AT THE EXCEL CENTRE 7) APR 3-5 NO TO NATO INTERNATIONAL DEMONSTRATION 1) GET READY FOR A WEEK OF PROTEST Stop the War’s main event at the G20 is the YES WE CAN demonstration which starts at the US Embassy, Grosvenor Square…
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Grid Hunt Etiquette Pt 2 – Merchant Etiquette
There are two parts to this guide; Part 1: Hunter Etiquette and Part 2: Merchant Etiquette (this post). Following on from Part 1, let’s talk about merchant behaviour… The reality is that for the majority of hunters they’re unlikely to ever remember your shop, what it sells or even upack the item you so carefully created. … Read the rest
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Grid Hunt Etiquette Pt 1 – Hunter Etiquette
I know, how boring of me. More lecturing and hectoring 😉 But for the first time in a couple of years I’ve agreed to be a merchant in a hunt. I’ve been a hunter a few times since then and the same problems seem to keep raising their head. … Read the rest
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Serenity. A Clock Sculpture with a difference – and a story :)
This is my first release for 2009 and it’s not just any old release, this piece has taken just shy of 2 years from original conception to it finally being finished. What should have been a simple thing turned out to be a saga of rogue prims, the search for the perfect scripter (think Cinderella here..… Read the rest
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A few more Valentine’s Day trinket ideas
My belief is that there’s not enough snow globes in this world, so I’ve created a couple more for those of you who are shameless romantics… Valentine’s Snow Globe A little Valentine’s trinket for the love of your life. When touched, the snow will start to fall and it will say: “You are very special to me, Be my Valentine?”… Read the rest
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24 January 2009 – BBC/Gaza Rally. Tony Benn’s Speech outside the BBC
Embargo: 1.30 pm, Saturday 24 January 2009 Press Release THE RT HON TONY BENN SPEAKING AT A MEETING OUTSIDE THE BBC BROADCASTING HOUSE, PORTLAND PLACE, SAID THIS AFTERNOON [SAT JAN 24]: “The decision of the BBC to refuse to broadcast a national humanitarian appeal for Gaza, which has left aid agencies with a potential shortfall of millions of pounds in donations, is a betrayal of the obligation which it owes as a public service.… Read the rest
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2 February 09 Media Workers Against the War Rally. “Gaza – Failed by the Media”
RALLY: GAZA – FAILED BY THE MEDIA With speakers: Seumas Milne, The Guardian Sir Gerald Kaufman MP A Palestinian journalist (tbc) Jane Shallice, Stop the War Coalition Richard Horton, The Lancet Lauren Booth, Press TV Jeremy Dear, general secretary, NUJ Monday February 2 7pm Old Cinema lecture theatre Westminster University 309 Regent Street London W1B 2UW Nearest tube: Oxford Circus More info: info@mwaw.net… Read the rest
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23 January 2009 Fredi Kanoute and a goal for Gaza
A GOAL FOR GAZA Star footballer Fredi Kanoute, now playing in Spain but formerly of Tottenham Hotspur, celebrated scoring a goal last Saturday by lifting his shirt to reveal a T-shirt with the word Palestine blazoned across it. He was booked by the referee and fined 3000 Euros.… Read the rest
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23 January 2009 – Student Occupations for gaza
WAVE OF STUDENT OCCUPATIONS FOR GAZA There has been an extraordinary wave of student occupations in solidarity with Gaza in universities and colleges across Britain — in London, Oxford, Sussex, Warwick, Kingston and elsewhere. (See Guardian report here: http://tinyurl.com/d6r8u4) Among the students’ demands are a call for aid to be organised for Gaza and for colleges to disinvest in arm companies which supply Israel.… Read the rest
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23 January 2009 ISM Update
BODY {font-family=”Arial”} TT {font-family=”Courier New”} BLOCKQUOTE.CITE {padding-left:0.5em; margin-left:0; margin-right:0; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; border-left:”solid 2″;} SPAN.TABOOHEADER {display=none} Ground Zero Tuesday 20th January, 2009 Earlier this week, following the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip, residents returned to some of the areas which had become no-go zones during the attacks, such as Jabalia just outside Gaza City.… Read the rest
