"A total mockery of international law" (tags)
Article 51 of the UN Charter clearly states that whoever is attacked militarily has such a right of defense. This is true in this case as well: Israel can defend itself against Hamas' attack, but this comes with the caveat that such defense must always be proportionate.
Necessary Medicine about Muslim Brotherhood: Gaza Strip and West Bank from Dict.of MidEas (tags)
The muslim Brotherhood is a religious group started in Palestine by visits between 1942 and 1945 by Hassan Banna who set up branches in towns.
Netanyahu's Statement Following His Latest Bandit Act (tags)
Israel
Amnesty International Documents hamas War Crimes (tags)
Hamas rockets fall short in #Gaza, killing Palestinian civilians
Dams that dont exist flood gaza (tags)
Palestinian media and officials are facing ridicule in the Israeli press for blaming the Israeli government for flooding the Gaza Strip by opening dams. But there’s one problem: Israel says those alleged dams don’t exist. “Even the weather is fair game in Hamas’s war of words against Israel,” wrote the Times of Israel, while the blog Israelly Cool had this headline: “Palestinians and Supporters Open the Floodgates of Bullcrap.” “[O]f course no crisis in Gaza can go to waste without blaming it on Israel,” Israelly Cool wrote. The claim of Israel intentionally flooding Gaza has made headlines in the pro-Palestinian media over the past week in which a freak winter storm hit the Middle East with a deluge of rain and snow, including a once-in-a-century snowfall in neighboring Egypt.
Hamas got rich as Gaza was plunged into poverty (tags)
With multi-million-dollar land deals, luxury villas and black market fuel from Egypt, Gaza's rulers made billions while the rest of the population struggled with 38-percent poverty and 40-percent unemployment.
Statement on the Gaza Genocide (tags)
In the past week, Israeli military forces have escalated their offensive on the Gaza Strip. Israeli warplanes have increasingly targeted houses, civilian-populated areas and civilian facilities in the Gaza strip. Israeli warplanes have destroyed a number of houses while their residents were inside, without any prior warnings, killing and wounding many Palestinian civilians.
Palestinians and Israelis: Unequal Treatment (tags)
Israel
BTL:Civil Liberties Advocates: Supreme Court Strip Search Ruling Could Lead to Systematic (tags)
Interview with Baher Azmy, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, conducted by Scott Harris
Obama's Defense of Strip Searching for Traffic Violations (tags)
The US Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling that guards can strip search and visually inspect the body cavities of people arrested for minor offenses who are admitted into a jail’s general population is based largely on arguments contained in the amicus curiae “friend of the court” brief filed in the case on behalf of the Obama administration.
SPLA Calls Defunding of Planned Parenthood a Crime Against Women (tags)
The Socialist Party Los Angeles calls the proposed Acts to defund Planned Parenthood another attempt by the patriarchal U.S. government to strip women of their basic human rights.
BTL:Groups Raise Funds to Launch U.S.-Gaza Aid Ship (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine
Gaza's Electricity Crisis (tags)
one of many problems under siege
Israeli forces attack and murder unarmed civilians carrying aid to the Gaza Strip (tags)
Israeli forces have attacked an unarmed civilian ship carrying aid to the Gaza Strip. They have murdered at least 16 people and injured dozens more.
Protest The Use of Full Body Scanners (and other hyper "secuirty" measures) (tags)
Say NO to virtual strip searches! Fight the racist targeting of certain "terrorist-prone countries"! Resist the fearmongering and hysteria!
Twin comic strips on youtube explain organized stalking (tags)
The growing crime of organized stalking is hopefully a little closer to public awareness as a result of twin comic strips, showing both the target and perpetrator sides of this crime.
New Comic Strip Series re Organized Stalking (tags)
New comic strip to educate the public about the crime of organized stalking has been made available on the web. It is hoped this series will help educate the public about a crime for which action by the justice systems of the world is long overdue.
The Warsaw Ghetto and Gaza Strip (tags)
A comparison of the present fascist policies of the Israeli government with the past atrocities of the Nazis
1/17 Palestine Watch:Latest News from Israel Invasion of Gaza, Over 1,200 Killed (tags)
The death toll from the now more than three weeks of assault stands at 1,199 Palestinians killed, including more than 400 children according to UN and Palestinian medical sources....
1/14: Palestine Watch:Latest News/Videos from Israeli Invasion & Killings in Gaza (tags)
The Israeli army continued its offensive against the Gaza Strip for the seventeenth day on Monday, killed twenty-six Palestinians, including 23 civilians, and wounded dozens of residents. At least 917 Palestinians were killed and more than 4260 were injured since the army initiated its attack....
To discuss economics and the Gaza Strip, the International Crisis WS continues. (tags)
Television and Radio Network Paraná Educativa will promote discussions on economy and war in the Gaza Strip, continuing, this way, The International Crisis WS.
Gaza: Search for Exit Strategy (tags)
"While Palestinians and Israelis continued their attacks, the search began for a way out.. As in Lebanon after the war, an international protective troop could be deployed in the Gaza strip as a buffer between Israelis and Palestinians."
1/3: Latest Updates from Israel Invade Gaza, Worldwide Protest Against Invasion (tags)
Latest Updates from Israel Invade Gaza: Worldwide Protest Against Israeli Invasion and Killing at Gaza
Dead Israeli terrorists (tags)
Are removed from Gaza
1/3 Palestine Watch URGENT ALERT! Israel Begin Invade Gaza! TAKE ACTION! (tags)
We encourages you to go to the street, hold emergency protest against Israeli Invasion and Massacre!
The Shortwave Report 01/02 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
NYCLAW Antiwar Bulletin: Israeli Massacre in Gaza -- 12.30.08 (tags)
Read Between the Lines
12/28: Israel launches new wave of Gaza attacks, facing international condemnation (tags)
12/28: Israel launches new wave of Gaza attacks, facing international condemnation, UN call to halt attack
LA Jews for Peace support upcoming 'Free Gaza' sailing from Cyprus (tags)
A Tribute to the Godfathers of the Sunset Strip (tags)
The Sunset Strip is the biggest thing in the musical universe. More rock music legends have come out of that location than any other place on earth, so why not have a festival to celebrate it's greatness?
Sunset Strip Music Festival (tags)
When I first heard about this event, I thought to myself," it's about time." After all, the Sunset Strip is the biggest thing in the musical universe. More rock music legends have come out of that location than any other place on earth, so why not have a festival to celebrate it's greatness?
Cross Your Fingers: Israel Claims It's Decided Against Gaza Invasion (tags)
Let's hope.
Doctors Without Borders Forced to Scale Back Gaza Operations (tags)
Israel's illegal policy ensures that those helping the Palestinians avert disaster are unable to do their work. There needs to be an immediate, world-wide boycott of all military and financial aid to Israel until this siege stops, and concrete steps are taken to create a viable Palestinian state. Our corrupt Government has betrayed Canadians on this issue, cannot justify their policy decisions, and must be forced to reverse this trend. Israel must be made to realize, in the most tangible (and peaceful) ways possible, that they cannot continue this collective punishment against Gazan Palestinians any more. But make no mistake, the ruling Extremists in Israel will keep pushing, so long as nobody speaks up or forces them to obey the law.
Calling Israel's Bluff: Hamas Offers Truce, Israel Rejects Peace (tags)
Israeli and American Extremists engineered this 'crisis', in order to undermine the ELECTED representatives of the Palestinians, and do not want it stopped. However, if Israel continues to reject peace, the world is going to start publicly debating these facts, as well as the fact that it is the Palestinians who have no 'partner for peace'.
Israel Guilty of Ethnic Cleansing (tags)
US Government guilty of underwriting these crimes.
UN: Israel Must Halt Use of Excessive Force (tags)
The US Government is the #1 sponsor of these War Crimes. Taking no action to stop them using your tax dollars to fund this Ethnic Cleansing enables these Extremists.
Abbas: Israel Guilty of Ethnic Cleansing (tags)
Put the conflict in fast-forward. A shocking picture emerges. Your Government is this Crime's biggest sponsor.
PA: Hamas stealing Gaza hospitals' fuel (tags)
More crimes against humanity, this time, agaisnt their own civilians by the so-called "Palestinians"
Annapolis A Charade-Israel Plans Massive Aggression (tags)
The meeting is designed to give the impression that Israel is interested in peace, while they're actually plotting against the Palestinians. The media's silence suggests complicity.
Israeli Escalation of Collective Punishment to Start Today (tags)
THIS IS A WAR CRIME.
True Intent of Gaza's Collective Punishment (tags)
The intention of this long-planned crime is the 'softening up' of the world's largest Concentration Camp, paving the way for an Israeli attack which was planned alongside 'disengagement'. Regardless of the reasons, this is an illegal policy.
Israel Plotting War On Egypt?? (tags)
How far will you allow these Extremists go in threatening you and Israel before you take some action to stop their Madness?
Solving the Fatah-Hamas Impasse (tags)
I was reading a news article on former Palestinian Information minister Dr Mustafa Barghouthi on An Najah University's (Nablus, Palestine) website when I stumbled upon this article on a Palestinian solution to the impasse between Fatah & Hamas below. It calls for reform of the PLO, dissolvement of the emergency gov, Hamas gov, & to end the current factionalism running rampant in territories by allowing all factions to join a new reformed government composed of other political parties: PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY
West Bank next
Democrats Give Bush Permission to Attack Iran (tags)
The AIPAC Girl
La Cucaracha Exed by LA Times (tags)
La Cucuracha comic strip by Lalo Alcaraz has been cancelled by the Los Angeles Times!
HELP BAN STRIP MINING IN TENNESSEE (tags)
help us abolish strip mining
Jennifer Loewenstein is a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University's Refugee Studies Centre. She has lived and worked in Gaza City, Beirut and Jerusalem and has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East, where she has worked as a free-lance journalist and a human rights activist. She can be reached at: amadea311@earthlink.net
Red Cross deplores the deaths of two paramedics in Gaza (tags)
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) deplores the death on 3 November of two Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) paramedics in the Gaza Strip and is deeply shocked and saddened by this event.
Israel continues Deadly Assault (tags)
BEIT HANUN, Gaza Strip — In what was called by Washington as "self-defense," Israel continued on Saturday, November4 , its campaign of deadly air strikes in the Gaza Strip, killing four more Palestinians, taking to 39 those killed since its latest operation began four days ago.
Twenty-eight Palestinians killed this week in OPT (tags)
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Escalate Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)
Gaza as Laboratory: The Great Experiment (tags)
IS IT possible to force a whole people to submit to foreign occupation by starving it?
In one of many reports and accounts of economic life in the Gaza Strip that I have recently read, I was struck by a description of an old man standing on the beach in Gaza throwing his oranges into the sea. The description leapt out at me because it was this very same scene I myself witnessed some 21 years ago during my very first visit to the territory. It was the summer of 1985 and I was taken on a tour of Gaza by a friend named Alya. As we drove along Gaza's coastal road I saw an elderly Palestinian man standing at the shoreline with some boxes of oranges next to him. I was puzzled by this and asked Alya to stop the car. One by one, the elderly Palestinian took an orange and threw it into the water. His was not an action of playfulness but of pain and regret. His movements were slow and labored as if the weight of each orange was more than he could bear. I asked my friend why he was doing this and she explained that he was prevented from exporting his oranges to Israel and rather than watch them rot in his orchards, the old man chose to cast them into the sea. I have never forgotten this scene and the impact it had on me.
The Water Question In the Occupied Lands (tags)
Israel steals the Palestinian's water then sells it back to them at 15 times the price the illegal Israeli settlers pay
Appeal to petition Israeli government to respect the right to education (tags)
The racist Israeli policies deprive and violate Palestinians' right to education and are used by the hegemonic power holders as a means of discrimination. Such discriminatory practices are apparent in not providing safe access to schools and institutions of higher education in unrecognized villages in the Galilee and the Negev, or by the militarization of educational spaces, the imposition of checkpoints or other militarized barriers (such as the separation wall) in the occupied Palestinian territories. The cumulative effect of these practices is a blatant violation of the right of students (especially females who are the most vulnerable segment of society) to study in an educational context that is safe and free from violence.
UN warns of Gaza 'breaking point' (tags)
In July and August Israeli security forces killed 226 Palestinians, 54 of them minors, in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Human rights group, B'Tselem has reported. More that 220 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the end of June Living conditions for Palestinians in Gaza have reached breaking point, a senior UN official has said.
This is a weekly summary of israeli War Crimes committed in Palestine (tags)
Illegal Settler Activities: Israeli settlers in breach of international humanitarian law continue to reside in the OPT and have launched a series of attacks against Palestinian civilians and property. On Sunday evening, 6 August 2006, a number of Israeli settlers traveling in a civilian car opened fire at a Palestinian truck that was traveling before them near Douma village, southeast of Nablus. As a result, Hussein Fahmi 'Ali Mardawi, 48, from Habla village southeast of Qalqilya, was killed by two live bullets to the heart, and his son, 17-year-old 'Ameed, was wounded by shrapnel to the left hand and shoulder.
This is a weekly summary of israeli war crimes (tags)
Annexation Wall: IOF have continued to construct the Annexation Wall inside the West Bank. During the reported period, IOF started to construct a new section of the Wall on Palestinian land in the west and northwest of Beit Jala town and al-Khader village in Bethlehem district. This section will isolate the villages located to west of Bethlehem. IOF prevented Palestinian civilians from organizing a peaceful march in protest to the construction a section of the Wall in the north and west of al-Khader village, southwest of Bethlehem. IOF fired rubber-coated metal bullets, sound bombs and tear gas canisters at these civilians. As a result, 5 civilians, including a child, suffered from tear gas inhalation. Moreover, IOF soldiers positioned neat the Wall, east of Jerusalem, chased some Palestinian civilians, including a number of women, children, workers and employees, from Hebron and Bethlehem, who were on their way to Ramallah. They also fired rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas canisters at these civilians. As result, 4 Palestinian civilians were wounded, and two others were arrested.
German Peace Movement Demands Israeli Withdrawal (tags)
Both the occupation of the Gaza strip and the arrest of members of the Palestinian government are clear breaches of international law.
ISRAELI STATE TERRORISTS CONTINUE TO KILL CHILDREN (tags)
ACTION ALERT: Stop Israel's Attacks on Gaza & Lebanon JOIN US IN THE FIGHT AGAINST ISRAELI APARTHEID TERRORISM Take Action, sign up for http://www.cnionline.org political action alerts and tell Congress to stop using your tax dollars to support Israeli terrorism. For further political action and information see http://www.endtheoccupation.org/ and http://www.cflweb.org/ and http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/ and http://www.voicesofpalestine.org/ Please copy, e-mail and distribute this as widely as possible.
ACTION ALERT: Stop Israel's Attacks on Gaza & Lebanon (tags)
BACKGROUND: Israel is using weapons supplied by the United States to target Palestinian & Lebanese civilians and civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon in violation of the US Arms Export Control Act and the Geneva Conventions. * On July 12th, Israel killed 23 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip with missiles fired from aircraft and shells fired from tanks. Israel killed 9 members of one family in a missile strike on a house near Gaza City.
Dear All, The Israeli media has diverted attention, almost entirely, from Gaza to Lebanon since yesterday's events there. So that you will know that Israel's war on Gaza has not ended, below are 2 reports on Gaza, followed by statistics (from Mona's blogg). Lastly is an analysis by Tanya Reinheart of why the IOF is in Gaza and what the government intends the IOF to do there. Best, Dorothy
The Real Reasons for Israel's Invasion of Gaza (tags)
An Experiment in Human Despair
Two Palestinian civilians killed in IOF raid including pregnant woman (tags)
More children killed by Israeli terrorism. Mohammed Roka, 5-years old, right, and his sister Needa. Massacred by the Israeli Gestapo on Tuesday 20 June in Gaza.
Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (tags)
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Escalate Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) 25 - 31 May 2006
Weekly Summary of Israeli War Crimes (tags)
Day of Action Against Caterpillar- March 16th in Whittier (tags)
March 16, 2006 is the three year anniversary of the death of Rachel Corrie. Rachel was a 23 year-old U.S. peace activist who was killed by an Israel Defense Forces Caterpillar bulldozer while trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip.
Protest Catepillar- Remember Rachel Corrie: 3/16 in Whittier (tags)
International Day of Action Against Caterpillar (3/16 @ 11:30am)- Since 1967, the Israeli army has used CAT equipment to destroy over 12,000 homes in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Rachel Corrie was run over and murdered by a CAT bulldozer on March 16th 2003.
Israeli aerial raids on Gaza Strip inflict civilian casualties including children (tags)
Gaza - A number of Palestinian civilians, including small children, were wounded in the missile raids by Israeli warplanes and assault Apache choppers that launched twelve sorties over the Strip at dawn Sunday firing a number of air-to-surface missiles against Palestinian civilian targets, including main roads
Israel extra-judicially executes Palestinians. (tags)
No human rights in Palestine/Israel.
WEEKLY REPORT ON ISRAELI HUMAN RIGHTS VIOATIONS IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY FOR (tags)
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Launch More Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) Palestinian Centre for Human Rights http://www.pchrgaza.org/
From South Central to Palestine: Land Confiscation knows no borders (tags)
Making connections between South Central and Palestine
LA FREE PRESS IS BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
Successful Week of Anti-Mountaintop Removal in Lexington (tags)
During the week of June 13 in Lexington, KY, a meal of toxic coal sludge scraped out of a stream in eastern Kentucky was delivered to the president of a coal advocacy group, hundreds of concerned citizens attended an anti-mountain top removal (MTR) rally and march that ended at Kentucky Utility's headquarters, a film festival educated Lexingtonians about the dangers of strip mining and its repercussions, and activists passed out literature on the streets, all part of Mountain Justice Summer's week in Lexington, Kentucky.
poster child for israel (tags)
aboiut israel
CKUT Radio: Gaza Strip Military Occupation - Canadian Complicity (tags)
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The "Days of Penitence": Gaza Sinks in a Sea of Blood (tags)
www.rafahtoday.org
Israeli Army Jeep Crushes Palestinian Boy to Death
Anger over razing of Gaza zoo (tags)
RAFAH, Gaza Strip - During the past five years, Mohammed Ahmed Juma and his brother, Fathi, slowly built their privately owned zoo into one of this city's best-loved community institutions. Last week, it took less than 30 hours for Israeli army bulldozers to destroy it.
SURPRISE Sharon delays presentation of disengagement plan to cabinet. (tags)
How many times can an Old Dodger Dodge? As many times as the USA buys into it.
EMERGENCY PROTEST AGAINST ISRAELI WAR CRIMES IN GAZA (tags)
A Palestinian man carries an injured child after Israeli occupation forces fired missiles at a demonstration in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip. A dozen Palestinians were killed... most of them children, with up to 50 seriously wounded. The occupation troops also fired tank shells and machine guns at the unarmed protestors. (AP/Khalil Hamra)
Another Bloody Gaza Day (tags)
The murder of a pregnant Israeli settler and her four children by extremists has torpedoed a Palestinian state once again.
The Occupation: " Do uproot that which is planted" (tags)
“The whole project of settlement in the territories was born in sin and expanded in deceit, underhand planning and shady organising that by-passed the Knesset and Budget allocations.” Shulamit Aloni Shulamit Aloni, the founding leader of Meretz (no, of Ratz, one of the 3 parties from which Meretz was formed. D) and an Education Minister in the government of Yitzhak Rabin is a fierce critic of the Occupation and a leading activist in the Israeli Peace Movement. Her views are always worth listening to:
Today in Palestine April 3rd (tags)
briefing
GAPATISTAS RIDE AGAIN: We'd Rather Wear Nothing Than Wear Gap!!! (tags)
Please join us for the Hollywood premiere of our GAPATISTA ROAD SHOW to Miami to stop the FREE TRADE AREA OF THE AMERICAS (FTAA) Nov 17--21, where up to 100,000 protestors are expected to converge!!! At the Hollywood Gap action we’ll march to the doors of the Gap with a giant 200-year-old redwood stump, logged by the Fishers of Gap, Inc. A mini FTAA & LOCAL ISSUES TEACH-IN will ensue, using the stump as a stage. Speakers will alternate with GREAT SONGS and RADICAL CHEERS, all building to the CLIMACTIC MOMENT when we STRIP for JUSTICE IN FOREST, FIELD, & FACTORY!!! We’ll round off the action with lealfeting and one-on-one. Come Strip with us for Redwoods and Workers Rights, for Global Ecology and Global Justice!!! Bring drums, noise-makers, and outlandish underwear!!!
Israel Destroys US-Built Water Wells In Gaza (tags)
Spokesmen at the American embassy were careful not to criticise the Israeli army. But according to reports in the Israeli press yesterday, they were less diplomatic behind the scenes. The newspaper Ma'ariv reported that the US had threatened to stop all reconstruction work unless the Israeli army promised not to demolish anything built by the Americans. (We couldn't have that. Criticizing War Crimes of Israel would be "anti-semitic" - or so the apologists for Israeli War Crimes would claim.)
27 Israeli pilots refuse raid duty (tags)
Twenty-seven Israeli air force pilots, who are considered the most elite servicemen of the Israeli Defense Forces, pledged in an open letter published yesterday that they no longer would take part in raids on Palestinian population centers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, describing them as "illegal and immoral."
2003 WTO Cancun Ministerial (tags)
quick type up of whats going on.
It is logical to lock people up in their homes and villages, and to sabotage the farming of their land because it is logical to subsidize the Jewish settlement in the land of the forefathers of Gush Katif and northern Gaza. It is logical to connect Jewish settler homes to electricity and water while forbidding Palestinian neighbors from connecting to the electricity grid and the water and sewage lines.
The War on Human Rights Groups (tags)
This is the beginning of the War on Human Rights Groups, perpetuated by the IDF and aimed in particular at those who wish to help Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and Gaza.
Las Vegas had over 400 protestors show up at the Federal Building and marched down the Las Vegas Strip and the Freemont Street Experience. Tomorrow (3/21/2003) a demonstration at the "New York New York" hotel on the Strip
Seven-year-old boy, killed by army fire (tags)
Also Sunday, a seven-year-old Palestinian boy was killed and his six-year-old brother were wounded by army fire while playing near a military outpost on the outskirts of the Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza, relatives said.
5 Reasons to Stop US Military Aid to Israel (tags)
"I am a black South African, and if I were to change the names, a description of what is happening in the Gaza Strip and West Bank could describe events in South Africa." - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Picture of slain Iain Hook and other victims of Israel (tags)
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New racist policies against impoverished Gazan workers (tags)
The Israeli Occupation Authorities has issued new work policies in the 'Eretz industrial zone' in the northern Gaza Strip, which forbid Gazans from wearing shoes, coats or bringing food from home.
Las Vegas is usually known as a hotbed of apathy. However, a small but lively group of protesters challenged that image yesterday with a spirited anti-war demonstration on the Las Vegas Strip. The demonstrators held signs and chanted slogans in front of the MGM Grand, where Bush, Sr. was raising funds, before marching up and down the Strip.
Terrorism, Israeli Style (tags)
What follows are the two leading stories in the August 29, 2002, Israeli Ha’aretz newspaper. This is but another example showing how the racist Sharon government is joining America in the fight on terrorism.
JOHN TRUDELL IN L.A. BENEFIT CONCERT (tags)
This coming March 8th, on International Women's Day, John Trudell will be performing at L.A.'s ROXY nightclub on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles.
The strip's two main characters are two African American boys, who are the first Black kids in a previoulsy all White suburb. It's a very funny comic strip, and, unlike the rest of the funny pages, they actually deal with serious social issues in an intellegent yet entertaining way.