By Hamde Abu Rahma

Friday, 26 June 2009: Bil’in village holds press conference and a demonstration against construction of the Apartheid Wall. Palestinian residents, alongside international and Israeli activists gathered today in Bil’in to demonstrate against the Wall

Before the demonstration, Naomi Klein, Basel Mansour, and Attorney Wisam Ahmad held a press conference.

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Mohammed Omer, The Palestine Telegraph, 26 June 2009

Palestine, June 26, (Agance Global) – June 26, 2008 is a day I will never forget. For the events of that day irrevocably changed my life. That day I was detained, interrogated, strip searched, and tortured while attempting to return home from a European speaking tour.

The respected tour culminated in me and independent American journalist Dahr Jamil sharing the Martha Gellhorn Journalism Prize in London – an award given to journalists who expose propaganda that masks egregious human rights abuses. Then, ironically, when I got back home, my human dignity was crushed by the Israeli authorites.

I want to address the denials from Israel and the inaccurate reporting by a few journalists in addition to requesting state of Israel to acknowledge what it did to me, prosecute the members of the Shin Bet responsible for it and put in place procedures that protect other journalists from such treatment.

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Images of ‘Amazon’s Tiananmen’

hat tip: Officially Not-Dead Peruvian Massacre Victims Still Haven’t Come Home Yet

…it didn’t cost Peru much in the way of money, because the murder tab was largely picked up by U.S. taxpayers.

via Free Leonard Peltier 2009

Greetings my friends and relatives,

I want to start off this statement or speech or whatever you want to call it by saying again as I’ve said before thank you thank you thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting me and for standing up for right wherever you are. I can’t express to you in words how extremely grateful I am not just to the people of America but to the people all over the world who have supported the cause of Indian people and myself.

I know a lot of you have given up a lot to help so many in my predicament. Daily I am made aware of political prisoners around the world. Many who have been killed or tortured or who knows what for trying to right the wrongs in their area, country or nation. I have been asked to make statements in support of other movement people around the world from time to time, South America, Europe and other places. People who love freedom, people who love the earth, people who love their family, people who love the freedom to make their own choice with their own resources, and all indigenous people- we share a common bond. The bond of brother and sister hood, the bond of believing there is a greater power than ourselves. And I don’t mean some government power; I mean the greatest power in all the universe the Creator Himself.

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June 25, 2009

Boats have not left today due to Israeli pressure on the Free Gaza Movement. We try again tomorrow. More on public advisory on www.freegaza.org