Greta Berlin, Co-Founder
witnessgaza.com
www.freegaza.org

As we get ready to challenge Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza once more, we would ask you to remember the nine men murdered in cold blood by Israeli commandos, who came down from helicopters firing live ammunition.

The official autopsy reports will be released in the next couple of weeks, but preliminary reports say the nine men were shot over 31 times, most through the face and the top of the head. If you have not seen their photos or read who they are, we have now uploaded their information as well as how they were killed onto our FLICKR site. Please take a moment to pay your respects and maybe, add a comment.

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These nine men were husbands and fathers, an American student who wanted to become a doctor, a fireman who came to help on board the Mavi Marmara, a photojournalist shot through the middle of the forehead as he tried to photograph Israel’s assault on a civilian ship in international waters in the dark.

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US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation member groups prepare to protest Netanyahu’s visit to NYC:

Council on Foreign Relations
58 East 68th St, near Park Ave

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An excerpt from a workshop held by the Minnesota Break the Bonds Campaign (http://mn.breakthebonds.org) at the 2010 US Social Forum in Detroit. Activists Sriram Ananth and Suzanne Waldorf explain how the state of Minnesota is heavily invested in Israeli bonds and how the campaign formed around this issue.

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Hugo Radice, The Bullet, 7 July 2010

The June Budget

Following the inconclusive outcome of the British general election on May 6th, the ‘centrist’ Liberal Democratic Party decided to turn sharply to the right by agreeing to join the Tories in a coalition government. In the run-up to the election, the Tories had argued strongly that Britain faced the prospect of a fiscal crisis unless the government’s deficit was brought down further and faster than the outgoing Labour government intended.

The new government quickly cranked up the volume over the deficit, with fresh scare stories about the risk of contagion from the Greek sovereign debt crisis and the subsequent disarray across the Eurozone. Although Labour and the left at once warned of the danger that sharp cuts would risk a new recession, the coalition insisted on pursuing their austerity agenda — and none more so than the Lib Dem ministers, who before the election had sided firmly with Labour on the issue.

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