Tag: Global Actions
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CAIA: Protesting the JNF: Community Groups Oppose Fundraising for Illegal “Canada Park”
On December 2nd, two hundred people from a host of community organizations braved the first snowstorm of the winter to protest the Jewish National Fund (JNF) annual Negev Dinner held at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Toronto. This year’s JNF dinner aimed to raise 7 million dollars for the refurbishment of the illegal “Canada Park”.…
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NYC Indymedia: Glitterati at Leviev’s New York Gala Stunned by Encounter with Palestinian Rights Protest (Updated)
By Adalah-NY Over 100 well-dressed, well-heeled New Yorkers attending the invitation-only opening of diamond mogul Lev Leviev’s Madison Avenue jewelry store this evening appeared stunned and aghast to find their evening derailed by a noisy protest against Leviev’s construction of illegal West Bank settlements. Gala attendees set down their champagne glasses and gathered by windows…
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Physicians for Human Rights-Israel Urgent Appeal for Intervention
Sunday, October 14, 2007 Help Demand Access of Seven Gaza Patients to Lifesaving Care Unavailable in Gaza. On the 10th of October Physicians for Human Rights-Israel sent an urgent request to the Israeli army and Minister of Defense, demanding that seven patients from Gaza whose access to medical care outside Gaza had been denied for…
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Ha’aretz: Democracy is more than going to the polls
By: Amira Hass October 2nd, 2007 “The protest wave has calmed down,” some Israeli journalists said Friday of the Burmese military junta’s success in driving thousands of demonstrators off the streets, using excessive violence. Despite the natural sympathy for the uprisers, several editors chose the word “calm,” which embodies the rulers’ point of view: The…
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AL-HAQ: UK High Court to hear legal challenge to UK arms sales to Israel
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UK High Court of Justice to Hear Legal Challenge on UK Sale of Arms-Related Equipment to Israel 19 September 2007 A full public hearing will be held before the UK High Court of Justice in London on 10 -11 October 2007 in the case of R (Saleh Hasan) v Secretary of State…