The video was co-produced by “HaYarkon 70 News” and B’Tselem

The West Bank town of Salfit has suffered for years from wastewater channeled its way from the Ariel settlement, as depicted in the video. This case is not unusual in the West Bank: as detailed in B’Tselem’s report on the subject, tens of millions of cubic meters of wastewater flow freely in the West Bank, from settlements, from Jerusalem and from Palestinian communities, greatly damaging the environment. In many settlements, the wastewater treatment plants are outdated and cannot treat the load currently placed on them; other settlements have never built plants. Israel has placed obstacles before efforts made by the Palestinian Authority to build treatment plants in Palestinian communities, including the condition that some plants serve adjacent settlements as well. The PA objects, on the grounds that establishing joint plants would legitimize the existence of the settlements.

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Kari Ann Cowan
12 November 2009

Hi Everyone,

Lets send Leonard a message knowing that we are thinking about him and we are not going to give up. Lets send him a postcard, picture or greeting card with a buffalo on it. Buffalo teaches us:

To remain well grounded
Provide abundantly for others
Find the strength to carry on our path
Be in harmony with Mother Earth
To give selflessly from the heart with pure intent
The meaning of sacrifice
The sacredness of life

I want this to raise his spirits. Please mail him at

Leonard Peltier
#89637-132
USP-Lewisburg
US Penitentiary
PO Box 1000
Lewisburg, PA 17837

Peace,
Kari Ann
Assistant Coordinator
Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee

By Robert Weissman

Clinton Signs Glass-Steagall Repeal

(November 12, 2009) — Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the passage of the repeal of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act and related legislation. It is an anniversary worth noting for what it teaches us about forestalling financial crises, the consequences of maniacal deregulation, and the out-of-control political power of the megafinancial institutions.

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THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Volume 56, Number 18 · November 19, 2009

By Peter Matthiessen

On July 27, 2009, I drove west from New York to the old riverside town of Lewisburg in central Pennsylvania, the site of the federal penitentiary where early the next morning I would make an appeal to the parole board on behalf of the American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier in his first parole hearing in fifteen years. On this soft summer evening, a quiet gathering of Peltier supporters from all over the country had convened in a small park near the Susquehanna River. Despite his long history of defeats in court, these Indians and whites sharing a makeshift picnic at wood tables under the trees were optimistic about a favorable outcome. Surely a new era of justice for minorities and poor people had begun with the Obama administration, and anyway, wasn’t Leonard’s freedom all but assured by the Parole Act of 2005, which mandated release for inmates who had spent thirty or more years in prison?

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9 November 2009

Ramallah – Ma’an – Marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Palestinian demonstrators breached Israel’s concrete barrier near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday.

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