12 December 2009

The Third Viva Palestina convoy has now reached Greece and is currently driving through snow and fog in the mountains on route to Thessaloniki lets hope that the weather changes soon and they can get a short rest.

viva_palestina: The whole convoy being paraded under police escort. Greeks r v v helpful n supportive of the convoy. Public stopping n offering money.

You can follow the convoy on various websites including

http://www.vivapalestina.org
http://readingpsc.org.uk/convoy/
http://twitter.com/viva_palestina
http://twitter.com/georgegalloway

Published on Thursday, December 10, 2009 by CommonDreams.org
Making an American ‘Impenetrable Underground Wall’ the Laughing Stock of the World—Leave It to the People of Gaza
by Ann Wright

America’s super technology will again be laughed at by the world, as young men dedicated to the survival of their people, will again outwit technology by digging deeper, and most likely penetrating the “impenetrable” in some novel, simple, low-tech way.

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Twenty South Africans to join Gaza Freedom March

The delegation includes former Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils. A delegation of almost 20 South Africans will, later this month, join more than a thousand activists from around the world and about 20,000 people from Gaza in the first international Gaza Freedom March, which will protest at Israel’s Erez border crossing.  South African delegates, including former Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils, a five-person COSATU delegation, solidarity activists and journalists, will meet up in Egypt with solidarity holocaust survivors, activists, academics, and politicians from 42 countries.

Egypt starts building steel wall on Gaza Strip border
By Christian Fraser / BBC News, Cairo

The Egyptians are being helped by American army engineers, who the BBC understands have designed the wall.

[…]

The BBC has been told that it was manufactured in the US, that it fits together in similar fashion to a jigsaw…

Repression allowed, resistance denied

This fact sheet is a concise summary of the much longer report, Repression Allowed, Resistance Denied and explains the violent tactics used by Occupation forces against Palestinians who engage in protest against the Wall. This fact sheet covers in brief the main sections of the report, including the history of the popular resistance against the Wall, violent repression of anti-Wall protestors, arrests and detentions, and recommendations for action. All of these are examined in greater detail in the report, along with interviews, statistics and analysis.

Download the fact sheet here.

See the full report here.

Kevin Roderick, LA Observed, 2 December 2009

Israeli organized crime activity in Los Angeles has gotten “a little bit worse” recently, LAPD terrorism chief Michael P. Downing told the Jerusalem Post this week on a visit in Tel Aviv. He also alluded to “a little bit of convergence between terrorism and organized crime.” But what was really interesting was Downing’s comment about that Oct. 29 shooting of two rabbis at Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic synagogue in North Hollywood, initially feared to be somehow terrorist or hate-related.

After arriving at the synagogue, Downing quickly realized it was not a terrorist attack.”The two victims had been kneecapped. That’s not indicative of terrorism. It resembled a targeted, surgical strike,” said the deputy chief.

“Within a few hours we were able to say that this was in no way linked to terror,” he added.

“They were targeted as part of a stern warning linked to a criminal organization,” Downing said.

Do tell more.

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Hollywood’s Enduring Myth of the Black Male Sexual Predator
The Selling of “Precious”

By ISHMAEL REED

A niche market could be defined as a component that gives your business power. A niche market allows you to define whom you are marketing to. When you know who are you are marketing to it’s easy to determine where your marketing energy and dollars should be spent.

Defining Your Nice Market, A Critical Step in Small Business Marketing by Laura Lake

One can view Sarah Siegel on “YouTube” discussing her approach to marketing. During her dispassionate recital she says that she sees a “niche dilemma,” and finds a way to solve that dilemma. Seeing that no one had supplied women with panties that were meant to be visible while wearing low cut jeans, she captured the niche and made a fortune. With five million dollars, she invested in the film Precious, which was adapted from the book Push, written by Ramona Lofton, who goes by the pen name of Sapphire, after the emasculating shrew in “Amos and Andy,” a show created by white vaudevillians Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll.

(Ms. Lofton also knows a thing or two about marketing. Noticing the need for white New York feminists to use black men as the fall guys for world misogyny, while keeping silent about the misogyny of those who share their ethnic background, she joined in on the lynching of five black and Hispanic boys, “who grew up in jail.” She made money, and became famous. They were innocent!)

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