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By Mai Bader, Left Turn, 8 July 2008 On June 14, 2008, a wide coalition of grassroots organizations – including NOLAPS (New Orleans, Louisiana Palestine Solidarity); INCITE Women of Color Against Violence; New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival; and … Continue reading →

Hendrik Hertzberg told host Laura Flanders yesterday on GRITtv, that The New Yorker staff may have been “naive” but saw nothing controversial about the editorial cartoon their magazine published this week that caricatured a Muslim-garbed Barack Obama and machine gun-toting … Continue reading →

Erik Camayd-Freixas, Ph.D. Florida International University June 13, 2008 On Monday, May 12, 2008, at 10:00 a.m., in an operation involving some 900 agents, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) executed a raid of Agriprocessors Inc, the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse … Continue reading →

1 May 2008: Israeli soldiers take $45,000 worth of sewing equipment, textiles and finished goods from a Palestinian orphanage workshop in Hebron. Two weeks later it is revealed what they did with the goods

By Donald Macintyre, The Independent, 11 July 2008 Veterans of the anti-apartheid struggle said last night that the restrictions endured by Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories was in some respects worse than that imposed on the black majority under white … Continue reading →