Hamas’s Theater of the Absurd: “Cannibals in Gaza” (tags)
This article looks at how Hamas abuses average Gazans in its struggle with Israel.
West Bank Village Struggles to Survive (tags)
Israel
A Radical Proposal: Open the U.S.-Mexico Border (tags)
That's what immigrant rights activist David Schmidt called for at a September 21 meeting of Activist San Diego. Originally called to discuss the closure of Friendship Park along the U.S.-Mexico border, the meeting expanded into a consideration of border issues in general. Schmidt and his better-known co-speaker, Enrique Morones of Border Angels and Marcha Migrante, both questioned why under NAFTA and similar “free trade” agreements, capital, commerce and corporations are allowed to move freely across national boundaries — while workers are trapped inside their home countries and routinely exploited for the greater profits of capital. If business is free to locate wherever it wants, workers should be too, they said.
Local San Diego Activists Defend Friendship Park (tags)
Since 1971, the Monument Mesa at Friendship Park on the U.S.-Mexico border has been an informal gathering place where people kept from physically coming together by the border fence could nonetheless reach out and pass each other greetings, kisses, presents and food. No longer: the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, seemingly determined to wipe out any sign that the people of the U.S. and Mexico should actually regard each other with anything other than wary hostility, have put the mesa straight in the cross-hairs of the triple border fence. Local activists Christian Ramirez and John Fanestil addressed a San Diego audience April 17 to tell what they're doing to try to save Friendship Park.
Border Patrol shot at with automatic weapons while uncovering new smuggling tactic’s (tags)
A third vehicle was spotted south of the border fence where a subject was observed firing an automatic rifle in the direction of the agents. Several additional subjects with weapons were seen climbing over the fence and they began unloading marijuana from the Chevy Avalanche
Media from raid on anarchists (tags)
Four pictures
U.S./Mexico Border Wall Risks Endangered Species Extinctions from Gene Isolation (tags)
Risks of the U.S./Mexico border wall on native species of ocelots and other mammals include extinction from genetic isolation of disconnected populations.
Pat Nixon at the U.S.-Mexico Border (tags)
Editor's Note: Nearly 40 years ago this month, First Lady Pat Nixon crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and embraced Mexican children, saying, "I hate to see a fence anywhere." Times have changed, writes the commentator, and ironically, President Richard Nixon helped to bring about many of these changes. Joseph Nevins is an associate professor of geography at Vassar College. His latest book is Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid (City Lights Books, 2008).
DNC in DNV Dispatch #2 - LA IMC reporter denied access at center fence gates. (tags)
Dispatch #2
Homeland Security dumping its highly praised “virtual fence” (tags)
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff officially accepted the supposedly completed fence from The Boeing Company just two months ago.
Daniel Watman: Activist Bridges Cultural, Sexual Borders (tags)
Bisexual activist DANIEL WATMAN doesn’t believe in walls — whether they’re the artificial “borders” between countries or the psychological borders between straight and Gay people. His involvements in the Border Meetup Group and the Bisexual Forum are bringing people together in new and unusual ways.
bush is a traitor facilitating a vatican invasion...duh.
The South Central Farm: The Struggle Continues (tags)
June 13, 2007: Today is the one-year anniversary of the eviction at the South Central Farm. A reunion was held just outside the now-barren farm space. Throughout the evening, the continued determination to restore the farm was emphasized repeatedly.
Yo! What Happened To Peace? (tags)
an exhibition of peace/anti-war/anti-occupation posters
Border Fence- The Cost is Far Too High (tags)
A study released last December by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service says a proposed 700 mile stretch of fence, along the 2,000 mile U.S. – Mexico border, could cost an estimated $49 billion. But what the report fails to say, U.S. –built walls on the border would cost both the U.S. and Mexico trillions of dollars in economic losses over the predicted 25-year lifespan of the fence, and non-monetary damage to political and cultural relations between the two countries would also last for decades.
WE SAY NO: TWO MINUTES TO KNOCK DOWN THE 700 MILE BORDER (tags)
An open mike video forum which will record each and every person who wishes to express their views --- in two minutes --- on the proposed United States/ Mexico border fence.
ALEXANDER: PFP SETTING TONE FOR 2008 (tags)
The 2006 Elections are over and the Peace and Freedom Party has plans to push forward with an agenda that will meet the needs of working class people across the nation. The Mid-Term Elections provided an indication of the great unrest and dissatisfaction that people nationwide have with America’s present leadership. Americans appear to be riding the fence between the Republican and Democratic Parties, and voters are uncertain about landing on either side of the fence.
Border fence could spell environmental disaster (tags)
Border fence could spell environmental disaster
CDIR-USA PROTEST US CONGRESS VOTE TO BUILD BORDER FENCE WITH MEXICO (tags)
The Coalition in Defense of Immigrant Rights (CDIR) strongly protest and condemn the US Congress that approved a bill last Friday, September 29 that calls for building a fence along the US-Mexican border to stem the flow of illegal immigrants
9/20: National Call-In Day to STOP Congress from Passing Anti-Immigrant Bills! (tags)
On Wednesday September 20, we urge you to CALL, FAX AND MAIL your elected officials, SAY NO TO THE RACIST ANTI-IMMIGRANT BILLS!
New fences protecting fragile areas on border (tags)
From the photos in the Arizona Republic printed article it looks like it would take at most a couple of minutes to cut down the barriers with an actylene cutting torch. They are just saw horse barriers made of railroad tracks which could be cut down and removed in just a few minutes.
A growing number of Minuteman Civil Defense Corps leaders and volunteers are questioning the whereabouts of hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of dollars in donations collected in the past 15 months, challenging the organization's leadership over financial accountability.
VIDEO - South Central Farm: Direct Action Disables Bulldozer (tags)
Direct Action Disables Bulldozer South Central Farm July 5, 2006
MinuteKlan Update from Campo (tags)
Report from a minuteklan member in Campo, Ca.
Strategies of the US and Mexico against the People of the Americas.
To Picket Fences in L.A. (tags)
Too many years have passed and too many fences have been built for Los Angeles to attempt a perilous, impractical and costly u-turn back to the “Leave it to Beaver” days when neighborhoods had unobstructed front lawns.
Report from Campo - Anti-MM Action (7/23) (tags)
Approximately 60 activists from around the region converged on the border area south of Campo, CA to peacefully make the point that the Minutemen are not welcome in California.
Iraqi ambulances targeted by US snipers (tags)
US snipers target ambulances in Ramadi, killing women and children. The war crimes of GW Bush continue
Are you really reading both sides of the story?
Why Does the World Hate Israel? (tags)
Israel is forvever.
Will the Fence calm the region or exacerbate the conflict? (tags)
The Hague: Israel Wall Violates International Law, Must Be Dismantled (tags)
13 out of 14 of the justices believed that in building the fence, Israel violated international humanitarian law, by infringing on Palestinians' freedom of movement, freedom to seek employment, education and health. Israel violated international treaties it had signed which deal with these topics, the ruling states.
It's been brought.
STOP THE TRIPLE FENCE - Coastal Commission Hearing Wed. Feb 18th (tags)
The California Coastal Commission is meeting on Wedensday, February 18th at 12 noon at the Lodge at Torrey Pines in La Jolla to decide whether or not to allow the construction of the Triple Border Fence on the US/Mexico Border. You can attend the hearing and show your opposition!
Israel Wants US Report Held After the Hague (tags)
Israel has asked the U.S. administration to postpone publication of the State Department's annual report on human rights around the world, fearing it will be used against Israel in the discussion on the separation fence at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
The Truth About Checkpoints: Sentiments & Article by Shlomo Lahat (tags)
Below Shlomo Lahat writes about the disasters that are known as check points. There are a number of additional kinds of disasters in the West Bank and Gaza; they not only will not contribute to anyone’s security, least of all Israel’s, but as a result of this are also likely to keep Jews and tourists away from Israel’s doors and encourage many residents and citizens here to leave for happier and safer grounds.
Budrus Update: 15 Wounded & Member of Sweden's Parliament Arrested (tags)
"The IDF imposed a curfew on the village and conducted house-to-house searches for the stone throwers"
The Story of an Action. (tags)
The International Women's Peace Service reports action and reaction in Budrus.
Resistance in Occupied Miami (tags)
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Coalition Of Women for Peace (tags)
On the website of the Coalition of Women for Peace: Thoughts for Yom Kipur * Host A Refuser! * 3 Years of Intifada Data * Reserve Pilots To Refuse Liquidations * Who Won (Gush Salom) * Electronic Intifada * and many more
Cancun Confrontation: Thousands Protest the WTO and Capitalist Globalization (tags)
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BostontoPalestine
IsraHell's Wall of Shame (by Latuff) (tags)
Copyright-free artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff, on behalf of brave Palestinian people and their struggle against U.S. backed Israeli terror.
Police Oppression at Anti-War Protest (tags)
Police clearly make is known that Black Bloc is not welcomed in Los Angeles.
Protesters that give the left a bad name (tags)
These fools are who gives the left a bad name.
Newhall; Judge Issues Eviction Order For Activist in Tree (tags)
Judge Issues Eviction Order For Activist in Tree John Quigley's attorney says the activist will chain himself to the oak before he will allow himself to be removed.
Palestinian olive trees sold to rich Israelis (tags)
Palestinian olive trees uprooted to make way for a security fence are being sold illegally to rich Israelis
STOP THE MILITARIZATION OF THE MEXICO-US BORDER (tags)
current measures in the Homeland Security Act will make construction of the triple fence between San Diego and Tijuana a priority.
APARTHEID - Israeli style (tags)
This map from Reuters News Agency shows the area around the Palestinian West Bank where Israel is now building a "security fence."
Borderhack: Cloth Graphic on the Fence (tags)
Two volunteers gaze upon the cloth graphic which they helped hang on the international fence at Tijuana during Borderhack. The graphic was designed by two artists, one from Maine and the other from Colombia, and represents their vision of the Free Trade Area of the Americas.
Borderhack: At the Fence (tags)
Two activists attending Borderhack played squeezing through the fence which divides Mexico from the United States.
Borderhack 2.0: "They're bad, they're dangerous, and they have guns." (tags)
"They're bad, they're dangerous, and they have guns." Apparently, this is the U.S. Border Patrol's assessment of Borderhack 2.0 activists (including this reporter) who met and camped out on the beach in Playas de Tijuana this weekend.
The full story.
Major fire against fence company (tags)
For those of us angry at fences and walls being built,
Fair Trade Sign Thru Chain Link Fence -- Hidden For Strawman (tags)
Fair Trade Sign Thru Chain Link Fence -- Hidden For Strawman
Black Bloc and SDPD at the fence (tags)
56 seconds Video clip of San Diego Police in riot gear facing Black Bloc protestors at the fence near the Tijuana-U.S. border
San Diego/Tijuana FTAA Protest, April 21, 2001 (tags)
Despite uncharacteristic, heavy rains in Tijuana and San Diego there was a large showing at the bi-national protest against the FTAA. Youth activists, union leaders, environmentalists among others gathered together at Larson Park within sight of the demilitarized zone of the U.S. – Mexican Border.
The Fence Comes Down (Quebec) (tags)
Protesters destroy the fence, a symbol of the barrier to democracy, surrounding the Summit of the Americas in Quebec.
A Day at the Fence in Quebec (tags)
Cops in riot gear watch as dumpster burns on protesters side of the fence. Bras hung on the fence during the women's march on Thursday, hang in tatters.
Labor is hereby notified that the carnival has ended and the class struggle has begun. 50 years of cooperation with the capitalist class is 50 years too long. The workingclass cannot endure this destruction of our future.
@8:00 p.m., August 14, 2000. After being shot directly in the face with pepper spray, these two men climbed atop the fence. When the man on the right stood, the police on the other side of the fence cautioned that he should "get down before he falls and hurts himself." Their humanitarian concern was overwhelming.
This was during the rage against the machine concert after the fire dept. turned off the sprinklers on the fence. people were crawling the fence and posting signs to reclaim the space.
Anarchists stake claim to fence (tags)
Protesters dive for cover after LAPD pepper spray the crowd in an effort to disperse them away from the Staples Center security fence Monday evening.
Anarchists stake claim to fence (tags)
An anarchist leaps down form the security fence of the Staples Center Monday evening after placing a black flag in the fence.
They beat on the fence with the coffins as they chanted "NO BLOOD FOR OIL!"
COMBAT-CRUCIFIXION-COURAGE-COMPASSION
PROTESTERS ATOP THE 17FT FENCE SURROUNDING THE STAPLES CENTER
The trigger-happy three LAPD at the fence (tags)
The names of the 3 LAPDofficers who fired the most at the Staples Center fence - prior to the larger police riot.
Some of the names of the officers who used paintball-pepperspray rounds at the fence prior to the mass police riot.
Protesters confront police through the fence (tags)
Protesters confront police through the fence barrier directly in front of the Staples Center during the Mumia Rally on August 13, 2000.