Boycott Pop-Kultur Berlin Festival 2019<\/strong> One Sector Blocks Peace in Colombia: Ex-FARC Guerrilla Leader<\/strong> How a Small Group of Pro-Israel Activists Blacklisted MintPress on Wikipedia<\/strong> House Anti-BDS Resolution Reveals the Power and Limits of the Israeli Lobby<\/strong> American Politicians Use Jews as Pawns to Excuse Their Meddling in Israeli Elections<\/strong> Greece: Students Protest to Keep Universities Police Free<\/strong> More Than Three Eco-Activists Killed Every Week in 2018: Study<\/strong> More Than 160 Environmental Defenders Were Killed in 2018, and Many Others Labeled Terrorists and Criminals<\/strong> Greece: Students Protest to Keep Universities Police Free<\/strong> Net Neutrality Activists Demand AT&T-owned CNN ask 2020 Candidates Where They Stand on an Open Internet<\/strong> Corbyn joins protesters in Lancashire, pledging fracking ban and 'green industrial revolution'<\/strong> House Anti-BDS Resolution Reveals the Power and Limits of the Israeli Lobby<\/strong> Mass Protests in Colombia and Abroad Decry Killings of 500 Activists Since Peace Accords<\/strong> Sao Paulo Forum Voices Solidarity with Venezuela, Rejects US Warmongering<\/strong> Progressive Democrats vote against BDS, Palestinian rights<\/strong> Progressive Democrats vote against BDS, Palestinian rights<\/strong> War, empire and racism in the Anthropocene<\/strong> Mass Protests Decry Killings of 500 Activists Since Colombian Peace Accords<\/strong> What the House Anti-BDS Resolution Reveals About the Palestine Solidarity Movement<\/strong> Why Americans Should Support BDS<\/strong> In victory for activists, Vancouver city council votes against adopting IHRA antisemitism definition<\/strong> The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change<\/strong> Venezuela: Massacre of revolutionary activists in Barinas<\/strong> The 'Total Anarchy' of Wet Cops<\/strong> Open letter to Australian government: No war on Venezuela, lift the sanctions<\/strong> 'No one is safe under Duterte:' Progressive Filipinos seek President's ouster, end of US support for regime<\/strong> Nationwide protests say: 'Six years too long'<\/strong> Activists blockade Adani site<\/strong> The Young Lords: Exploring the Legacy of the Radical Puerto Rican Activist Group 50 Years Later<\/strong> Activists Camped at Hawaii's Mauna Kea Face Government Opposition as They Attempt to Block Telescope Construction on Sacred Land<\/strong> Climate Activists From Extinction Rebellion Glued Themselves to the Capitol to Disrupt House Votes<\/strong> With the Right to Boycott Under Attack, Some Members of Congress Are Pushing Back<\/strong> BDS Movement welcomes U.S. Congress resolution affirming right to boycott<\/strong> A round-up of the #BoycottHP Global Week of Action, July 10-15<\/strong> A round-up of the #BoycottHP Global Week of Action, July 10-15<\/strong> The Dark Side of the Moon Mission<\/strong> Trump's Threats towards Iran Aren't Working. Here's Why<\/strong> Join the Global BDS Week of Action Against HP<\/strong> Statement on Affiliation with the BDS Movement and the Use of the BDS Acronym<\/strong> New report: French Insurer AXA Complicit in Israel's War Crimes<\/strong> Statement on Affiliation with the BDS Movement and the Use of the BDS Acronym<\/strong>
\nSAMIR | bdsmovement.net<\/a> | 2019-07-30
\nBoycott Pop-Kultur Berlin Festival 2019: PACBI StatementPalestinians call for the boycott of Pop-Kultur Berlin festival, until it ends its partnership with Israel | Cultural BoycottJuly 30, 2019 | By: | | Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) …
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\ntelesurenglish.net<\/a> | 2019-07-30
\nRodrigo "Timochenko" Londoño, the leader of the demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group, said in an interview with EFE that one economic power sector was blocking the peace achieved after half a century of war in Colombia. | RELATED: | Colombian Social Leader Shot a Day After Global March Against Activists' Killings | Despite signing the peace agreement on Nov. 24, 2016, he said it did not achieve "a complete peace and, unfortunately, there still…
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\nWhitney Webb | mintpressnews.com<\/a> | 2019-07-30
\nFor over ten years, Wikipedia has been a key focus of right-leaning, pro-Israel groups that have effectively weaponized the online encyclopedia as a means of controlling the narrative when it comes to the state of Israel's more than 50-year-long military occupation of Palestine.
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\nCP Editor | counterpunch.org<\/a> | 2019-07-30
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\nThomas Knapp | counterpunch.org<\/a> | 2019-07-30
\nOn July 23, the US House of Representatives passed (the vote went 398-17, with five voting "present") a resolution condemning the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement. The resolution was an outrageous condemnation of the freely chosen economic actions of millions of Americans. Worse, that condemnation was made on the express behalf of not just…
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\ntelesurenglish.net<\/a> | 2019-07-30
\nGreek students are protesting against a proposal to scrap academic sanctuary, a law that was designed to protect protesting students and freedom of ideas but which the new government says is used as a cover for lawlessness. | RELATED: | Greece: Refugees, Activists on Alert Amid New Migration Acts | A couple of thousand students marched through Athens against repealing asylum last week. "I personally believe the free movement of ideas means that no institution of the state can inter…
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\ntelesurenglish.net<\/a> | 2019-07-30
\nWhile calls to save the planet are growing every day, the people who fight to protect their lands and the environment are being silenced. In 2018, on average three environmental defenders were murdered each week, according to a study published Monday by the international human rights group Global Witness. | RELATED: | Peru: Protestors Demand Definitive End of Open-Pit Mining Project | More than 160 land an…
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\nAlleen Brown | theintercept.com<\/a> | 2019-07-30
\nVictoria Tauli-Corpuz, the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples, was disturbed to learn that her name had been included on a list of "terrorists" allegedly affiliated with the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People's Army. | Authoritarian President Rodrigo Duterte had imposed martial law on the island of Mindanao in May 2017, when ISIS sympathizers attacked the predominantly Muslim city Marawi. By October, ISIS had been ousted, but martial law remained in p…
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\ntelesurenglish.net<\/a> | 2019-07-30
\nGreek students are protesting against a proposal to scrap academic sanctuary, a law that was designed to protect protesting students and freedom of ideas but which the new government says is used as a cover for lawlessness. | RELATED: | Greece: Refugees, Activists on Alert Amid New Migration Acts | A couple of thousand students marched through Athens against repealing asylum last week. "I personally believe the free movement of ideas means that no institution of the state can inter…
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\ncommondreams.org<\/a> | 2019-07-30
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\nEd Sykes | thecanary.co | 2019-07-30
\nOn 30 July, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn continued his tour around Britain by meeting protesters at the gates of a shale gas exploration site in Lancashire. Speaking to around a hundred activists at the Preston New Road site near Blackpool, Corbyn promised that his party will ban fracking and launch a "green industrial revolution" if it wins the next general election.The site is the UK's only shale…
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\nStaff | therealnews.com<\/a> | 2019-07-30
\nThe defense of Palestinian rights has become more acceptable and accusations of anti-Semitism have become more sparing in the mainstream media, despite the House's recent resolution against the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, says IPS's Phyllis Bennis…
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\nStaff | democracynow.org<\/a> | 2019-07-29
\nTens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets on Friday in more than 50 cities and towns across Colombia to protest a surge of lethal attacks on indigenous, Afro-Colombian and environmental leaders in recent years. Solidarity marches were held in dozens of cities around the world, from Mexico City to Athens. In 2016, the Colombian government and FARC rebels signed a historic peace accord to move the country forward after a half-century of armed conflict. But since then, nearly 500 human rights activists, many from the Afro-Colombian community, have been killed, targeted for their work combating illegal m…
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\nPaul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com<\/a> | 2019-07-29
\nThe host of delegates from around the world likewise expressed support for leftist movements in Latin America.
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\nAaron Maté | thegrayzone.com<\/a> | 2019-07-29
\nHouse Democrats, including key progressives, have passed a measure condemning the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS). Why are Reps….
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\nAaron Maté | thegrayzone.com<\/a> | 2019-07-29
\nHouse Democrats, including key progressives, have passed a measure condemning the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS). Why are Reps….
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\nEds. | mronline.org<\/a> | 2019-07-29
\nWar is, perhaps, the most visible surface-symptom of the Anthropocene's defining feature. | Source…
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\nStaff | truthout.org<\/a> | 2019-07-29
\n| Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets on Friday in more than 50 cities and towns across Colombia to protest a surge of lethal attacks on indigenous, Afro-Colombian and environmental leaders in recent years. Solidarity marches were held in dozens of cities around the world, from Mexico City to Athens. In 2016, the Colombian government and FARC rebels signed a historic peace accord to move the country forward after a half-century of armed conflict. But since then, nearly 500…
\ntruthout.org\/video\/mass-protests-decry-k…<\/a><\/p>\n
\nPhyllis Bennis | thenation.com<\/a> | 2019-07-29
\nWhat the House Anti-BDS Resolution Reveals About the Palestine Solidarity Movement…
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\nOmar Barghouti | thenation.com<\/a> | 2019-07-29
\nWhy Americans Should Support BDS…
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\nEds. | mronline.org<\/a> | 2019-07-29
\nThe City of Vancouver, Canada might seem to be an odd place for a battle over the IHRA definition of antisemitism. But that is exactly what happened in the last week, and it all concluded with a temporary victory for free speech, human rights and common sense. | Source…
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\nRonnie Cummins | counterpunch.org<\/a> | 2019-07-29
\nThe Climate Emergency is finally getting the attention of the media and the U.S. (and world) body politic, as well as a growing number of politicians, activists and even U.S. farmers. This great awakening has arrived just in time, given the record-breaking temperatures, violent weather, crop failures and massive waves of forced migrationthat are quickly becoming…
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\nFred_F | greenleft.org<\/a>.au | 2019-07-29
\nSix members of the Bolívar and Zamora Revolutionary Current were murdered on July 27 by an as yet unidentified armed group, presumably mercenaries paid by sections of the local right-wing landowners.
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\nJosmar Trujillo | fair.org<\/a> | 2019-07-26
\nby Josmar Trujillo "Total Anarchy": The headline has changed, but the tweet remains (Twitter, 7\/22\/19). | The family of Eric Garner, the Staten Island father infamously choked to death by a New York City cop in 2014 (Extra!, 1–2\/15), was told last week by the Justice Department that charges would not be brought against that officer. Family members and activists responded with fury, mostly aimed at Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose refusal to fire the officer, Daniel Pantaleo, allo…
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\nsusan_p | greenleft.org<\/a>.au | 2019-07-26
\nThe following open letter to the Australian government, signed by a number of academics, unionists and solidarity activists and groups, was released on July 27.
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\nKei Pritsker and Morgan Artyukhina | liberationnews.org<\/a> | 2019-07-25
\nHundreds of Filipino activists and their supporters descended on Washington, D.C. on July 22 to demand that the United States end its support for the administration and military of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who is waging three brutal wars against the peoples of the archipelago that have killed over 30,000 people.
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\npip.hinman | greenleft.org<\/a>.au | 2019-07-25
\nThousands of refugee rights activists, in more than 20 protests around the country, filled streets chanting "Six years too long, bring them here" on July 20.
\ngreenleft.org<\/a>.au\/content\/nation-wide-protests-say-six-years-too-long<\/p>\n
\npip.hinman | greenleft.org<\/a>.au | 2019-07-25
\nStop Adani activists blockaded Adani's Abbot Point Road on July 22.
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\nStaff | democracynow.org<\/a> | 2019-07-24
\nFifty years ago this week, a group of young radical Puerto Ricans took to the streets of New York City to announce the formation of the New York chapter of the Young Lords. Formed in the same radical tradition of the Black Panther Party, the activists soon became a force in the community that inspired people around the nation. The Young Lords occupied churches and hospitals to offer services to the community, and educated people about Puerto Rican culture and history. They called for self-determination for all Puerto Ricans, independence for the island of Puerto Rico, community control of institutions and land, f…
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\nAída Chávez | theintercept.com<\/a> | 2019-07-24
\nGov. David Ige gave law enforcement more authority to remove activists and ensure delivery of materials to the Thirty Meter Telescope construction site.
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\nAída Chávez | theintercept.com<\/a> | 2019-07-24
\nProtesters, who were glued for more than two hours, called for the immediate passage of a joint resolution to declare a climate emergency.
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\naclu.org<\/a> | 2019-07-23
\nIn a sea of anti-BDS legislation, a resolution championing the right to political boycotts emerges. | More than 250 million Americans, some 78 percent of the population, live in states with anti-boycott laws or policies. With the right to boycott under attack across the United States, some members of Congress are pushing back against these dangerous and unrelenting attacks., , Last week, Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN), along with Representatives John Lewis (D-GA) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), introduced a…
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\npatrick | bdsmovement.net<\/a> | 2019-07-19
\nBDS Movement welcomes U.S. Congress resolution affirming right to boycott: UpdateIn a historic move, Congress members Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and US civil rights veteran John Lewis introduce resolution affirming the right to boycott. | Right To BoycottJuly 19, 2019 | By: | | Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) …
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\npatrick | bdsmovement.net<\/a> | 2019-07-19
\nA round-up of the #BoycottHP Global Week of Action, July 10-15: UpdateGroups worldwide participated in the #BoycottHP Global Week of Action, creatively asserting the demand that HP Inc and HPE end their complicity in Israel's apartheid, military occupation and settler-colonialism against the Palestinian people | Economic Boycott Boycott HP Global BDS Week of Action Against HP …
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\npatrick | bdsmovement.net<\/a> | 2019-07-19
\nA round-up of the #BoycottHP Global Week of Action, July 10-15: UpdateGroups worldwide participated in the #BoycottHP Global Week of Action, creatively asserting the demand that HP Inc and HPE end their complicity in Israel's apartheid, military occupation and settler-colonialism against the Palestinian people | Economic Boycott Boycott HP Global BDS Week of Action Against HP …
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\nJames Jeffrey | progressive.org<\/a> | 2019-07-18
\n"For that kind of money," Vonnegut cracked on the CBS Evening News, "the least [NASA] can do is discover God." Civil rights activists, anti-Vietnam War protesters and even top scientists were skeptical of the Apollo moon mission at the time.
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\nStephen Zunes and Medea Benjamin | progressive.org<\/a> | 2019-07-17
\nBy treating the Iranian regime as a monolith the Trump Administration risks closing one of the few remaining avenues for defusing the crisis.
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\nziyaad | bdsmovement.net<\/a> | 2019-07-05
\nJoin the Global BDS Week of Action Against HP: UpdateFrom July 10th – 15th, groups from across the world are coming together to send a powerful message to HP companies, HP Inc and HP-E, demanding that they stop profiteering from Israel's apartheid, occupation and colonisation. | Boycott HPJuly 5, 2019 | By: | | Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) …
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\nFADI | bdsmovement.net<\/a> | 2019-07-05
\nStatement on Affiliation with the BDS Movement and the Use of the BDS Acronym : BNC Statement1 July 2019 | January 7, 2019 | By: | | BNC …
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\nPACBI | bdsmovement.net<\/a> | 2019-07-05
\nNew report: French Insurer AXA Complicit in Israel's War Crimes: UpdateGlobal coalition demands AXA divest from companies violating Palestinian rights | Economic Boycott Military EmbargoJuly 8, 2019 | By: | | Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) …
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\nFADI | bdsmovement.net<\/a> | 2019-07-05
\nStatement on Affiliation with the BDS Movement and the Use of the BDS Acronym : BNC Statement1 July 2019 | January 7, 2019 | By: | | BNC …
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