Tag: Global Actions

  • Blockade of Brighton Arms Factory

    from smashEDO, 22 May 2007 At 6am on Monday morning, outside the premises of EDO-MBM, Home Farm Road, Brighton, students from Sussex University, including Student Union president Dan Glass, have locked themselves to the Brighton arms factory using D-locks preventing access to the factory. One man has been arrested for aggravated trespass. EDO produces weapons…

  • (VIDEO) New England Commemorates the Nakba

    From QuestionIsrael, 20 May 2007 On Sunday May 20th, several carloads of non-violent protesters headed to Foxboro to voice their support for Palestinians at the Israeli day celebration taking place at Gillette Stadium. At 2:30 PM, 40 to 50 protestors in the Field House unraveled two banners. One declared: Israeli “Independence” = Palestinian Dispossession and…

  • (VIDEO) “We Need an International Anti-Apartheid Campaign”

    “We Need an International Anti-Apartheid Campaign” presented by Jeff Halper, posted by Kathy, Halper is the Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and a Professor of Anthropology at Ben Gurion University. Originally from Minnesota (US), he has lived in Israel since 1973. Jeff has researched and written extensively on Israeli society and…

  • Ma’ariv: Wanted at Harvard, Dan Halutz

    By Ben Caspit, Ma’ariv, 15 May 2007 “Academic hunt” for Halutz A group of students at Harvard, including Jews and Israelis, calls for the Commander-in-Chief to be tried for war crimes Even at Harvard University the former Commander-in-Chief, Dan Halutz, can’t find peace; a group of radical and pro-Palestinian students and lecturers, among them Jews…

  • QUIT: Victoria’s Secret Weapon Fashion Show, SF

    from Indybay, Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism, 15 May 2007 Victoria’s Army, a division of Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!), delighted Mother’s Day shoppers in San Francisco on Saturday, May 12, with a fashion show outside Victoria Secret’s Union Square storefront. The fashion show was the second outing for the bold Victoria’s Secret Weapon Line, underwritten…