Wednesday, September 30, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Ben Schreiber, 202-222-0752, bschreiber@foe.org
Elizabeth Bast, 202-641-7203, ebast@foe.org

Washington, D.C.— Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica had the following statement in response to the Kerry-Boxer draft climate bill:

“We commend Senators Boxer and Kerry for their dedication to combating the important problem of climate change but we cannot support a bill that fails to solve the problem. Overall the draft is riddled with loopholes and does not go far enough to protect the planet.

Areas of concern include:

[Read the statement]

Maureen Clare Murphy, The Electronic Intifada, 28 September 2009

In recent years, a growing number of accounts of the 1948 war have corrected and exposed the founding myths of Israel, including claims by its leaders that the Palestinian people did not exist or were invented. The latest addition to this genre is independent scholar Rosemarie M. Esber’s meticulously documented history Under the Cover of War: The Zionist Expulsion of the Palestinians. While other recent books on the subject have relied on Israeli and Zionist archival sources, Esber uses British archives and oral testimonies from Palestinian survivors as well as previously used sources to demonstrate that there was a purposeful, systematic pattern by which Zionist forces depopulated Palestinian cities and villages before the end of the British mandate on 15 May 1948 and the subsequent intervention of Arab armies.

[Read the review]

[click here for the .pdf version of the following press release]

[click here to read a brief excerpt]

“Black Flame is neither obituary nor panegyric … it is an attempt to define anarchism … and rethink ways to implement these ideas and practices in the global economy of the twenty-first century. ”—from the Preface by Stuart Christie, author of Granny Made Me an Anarchist

Black Flame (Counter-Power, Volume 1) is the first of a two-volume set examining the democratic class politics of the worldwide anarchist movement, its vision of a decentralized planned economy, and its impact on popular struggles on five continents over the course of the past 150 years. From anarchism’s first glimmers as a nineteenth-century ideology to today’s anticapitalist struggles, Black Flame traces anarchism’s lineage and contemporary relevance, outlining the movement’s insights into questions of race, gender, class, and imperialism.

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Laura Carlsen, Americas MexicoBlog, 28 September 2009

On Sept. 26 the coup regime took abuse of illegitimate power one giant step forward by issuing an Executive Decree to suspend guaranteed rights under Articles 69, 72, 78, 81 and 84 of the Honduran Constitution, with the pretext of “serious disruption of the peace”. The decree justifies the suspension of rights citing vandalism and “the quantity of illegal protesters”.

Although not announced as such, the decree declares a virtual state of siege in the country through the suspension of civil liberties. The decree is scheduled to be in effect for 45 days from the date of issue.

Freedom of movement for all Hondurans has now been prohibited formally, “according to the parameters established by press releases from the (coup) Presidency that will contain the territory and duration of the curfew”. All unauthorized public meetings are also prohibited.

[Read the report]

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