US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
27 August 2009
James Wall, contributing editor of The Christian Century, has had about enough of faith communities talking and talking about peace in the Middle East without taking any action.
Wall has issued a call for U.S. churches to stop issuing resolutions and start putting pressure on Israel using the proven, effective tactics of boycott and divestment.
Sign the petition:
http://FreePeltierNow.blogspot.com/2009/08/clemency-petition-online-sign-now.html
Americas Program Coverage of the Coup in Honduras
Part 1: The Coup’s Version of ‘Order in the Court’
Laura Carlsen
25 August 2009
The workings of a modern-day democracy depend on the open and orderly day-to-day functions of institutions based on law. The international community has unanimously agreed that this does not exist in Honduras. But few people outside Honduras really understand what it means to live in a society where the institutions are in the hands of the same people who broke with the rule of law.
Tuesday was the preliminary hearing for 24 people arrested during protests held Aug. 11-12. The press and statements from those released on bail has confirmed that the day security forces picked up the prisoners they took them to an illegal detention center, improvised behind the Congress where, in another farce of justice, members rubber-stamped the ouster of the elected president Manuel Zelaya with ad hoc charges and a falsified letter of resignation. Men and women of all ages were thrown in together. They were stripped semi-naked, laid face down on the floor, and in many cases beaten.
Contractor Raymond Azar is arrested in Afghanistan, hooded, stripped and flown to the U.S. His alleged crime? Bribery. A human rights activist calls the case ‘bizarre.’
By Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times, 22 August 2009
Reporting from Alexandria, Va.
A Lebanese citizen being held in a detention center here was hooded, stripped naked for photographs and bundled onto an executive jet by FBI agents in Afghanistan in April, making him the first known target of a rendition during the Obama administration.
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