Category: Press Releases

  • NYC Activists Take Message Against Caterpillar to “Business and Sustainability” Conference at Waldorf

    One Arrested Later at CAT Presentation For photos, visit http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/152583/index.php NEW YORK – NYC activists on behalf of Palestinian rights brought their message to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel this morning, where an executive from Caterpillar was scheduled to appear on a panel about social responsibility and sustainability. The spirited rally excited police attention but no arrests.…

  • Children of Bil’in to Protest at Supreme court Tuesday

    Tomorrow, Tuesday, a request will be submitted to the Israeli Supreme Court that Bil’in lands will be included in the appeal by the neighboring village of Harbata against the confiscation of the villages’ lands for the separation wall. As Bil’in residents above the age of 14 are not allowed to enter Israel, even in order…

  • Update on Yonatan Pollak

    Yonatan Pollak, an activist from “Anarchists Against Walls”, was brought in front of a judge Saturday 11 of June night after being in detention since Thursday. The judge confirmed Yonatan’s 3 months ban from the West Bank. Under the advice of his attorney Yonatan signed, and is now filing an appeal to the district court…

  • Marda Under Curfew

    Video footage of the Israeli army incursion into the West Bank village of Marda on 9th June 2005. An area of about 10 square kilometers was declared a Closed Military Zone for three days by the Israeli military, in an attempt to prevent demonstrations against the Apartheid Wall taking place in the area, which is…

  • Israeli army shoots live bullets at children in Marda

    From IWPS Four bulldozers that had been uprooting Marda’s trees to make way for the “Ariel loop” of the Annexation Wall stopped working as soon as the villagers began their march, a major victory for the day. Mere minutes into the ascent upwards and only a few hundred meters up the slope, the group, consisting…