Colombian human rights defender Emilsen Manyoma | Photo: Conpaz teleSUR – January 18, 2017 On Tuesday police in the Pacific coast city of Buenaventura announced they had discovered the body of Afro-Colombian human rights activist Emilsen Manyoma, 32, and her partner Joe Javier Rodallega, who had been missing since Saturday. A prominent leader in the […]
Press TV – Jan 8, 2017 Scores of people have staged a protest in a northern German port city against the deployment and transport of NATO troops and weapons through the city. The protest was held in the port city of Bremerhaven on Saturday. US military hardware, including 87 tanks and 144 Bradley fighting vehicles, […]
Palestine Information Center – January 6, 2017 SANTIAGO – A number of pro-Palestinian Chilean MPs are preparing for an international campaign starting from the Chilean capital, Santiago that calls on the United Kingdom to apologize to the Palestinian people for the Balfour Declaration, which paved the way for the establishment of Israel on the land […]
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network – December 25, 2016 Basel Ghattas, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and Member of Knesset, is currently being held by Israeli forces on charges of attempting to bring cellphones to imprisoned Palestinians denied the ability to communicate with their families or political organizations. Ghattas has frequently visited with imprisoned Palestinians, […]
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network – December 11, 2016 Fayez Sharary, a British citizen of Palestinian descent, has now been held in Israeli prisons for nearly three months. He traveled with his wife Laila and their daughter, Aya, 3, to Palestine, to visit Laila’s widowed mother and to mark Eid al-Adha in Jerusalem, reports Inminds, […]
Press TV – December 2, 2016 The Islamic Republic of Iran has dispatched its third consignment of humanitarian aid to war-ravaged people in Syria’s northwestern city of Aleppo. The head of the Relief and Rescue Organization of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS), Morteza Salimi, told IRIB that the shipment included 150,000 food cans. He […]
By Ron Jacobs | CounterPunch | December 2, 2016 The movement against South African apartheid was perhaps the most universal and popular movement in the western world in the 1980s. Hundreds of thousands protested in a multitude of ways—from letter-writing campaigns to shantytown occupations of city squares and college campus greens. Institutions of all types, […]
By Ramona Wadi | MEMO | December 1, 2016 Another symbolic international day for Palestinian rights has degenerated into the usual stale observations and recommendations that do little other than try to impart a semblance of balance between the coloniser and the colonised. Perhaps the UN has preferred to remain loyal to the monstrous history […]
International Solidarity Movement | November 17, 2016 Umm al-Kheir, Occupied South Hebron Hills – Almost nothing in Palestine is what you expect for the most part. And, this is so true of the negative things you see. No matter how bad you think things are or expect them to be, you are almost always guaranteed […]
RT | November 16, 2016 Resistance against the terrorists and rebels controlling eastern Aleppo has been growing among the civilian population trapped in the city, Russia’s Defense Ministry said. Eleven protests have been staged in militant-controlled areas since the beginning of the week. In the past 24 hours alone, some 1,500 civilians in four Aleppo […]
