Bob Egelko | The San Francisco Chronicle 14 September 2009 An Oakland man who was seriously wounded by a tear gas projectile fired by Israeli police during a West Bank protest will file suit despite a military report concluding that ...
Read More »Benefit Sunday for former Berkeley tree sitter severely injured in Israel
Kristin Bender | The Oakland Tribune 9 September 2009 Six months after Tristan Anderson, a former UC Berkeley tree sitter and Bay Area activist, nearly died after being struck in the head with a tear-gas canister fired by Israeli troops, ...
Read More »Back to Warsaw 1968
Michael Sfard | Ha’aretz 3 September 2009 When my father was 21, he was arrested. Secret service agents tailed him everywhere for a few weeks, and the stress over whether and when he’d be shackled ate at him. Above all, ...
Read More »Israel declares the shooting of American activist, Tristan Anderson to be an “act of war”
For Immediate Release 18 August 2009: Israel declares the shooting of American activist, Tristan Anderson to be an “act of war.” Tristan Anderson, an American national, was critically injured on 13 March 2009 when he was shot with a high ...
Read More »Can civil disobedience work if the media stays away?
Bruce Wolman | Mondoweiss 11 June 2009 What if Palestinians turned to non-violent protest and none of the media showed up to cover their actions? President Obama in his Cairo speech insisted the “Palestinians must abandon violence.” He exhorted them ...
Read More »When the pain hits home – Tristan Anderson shot at Palestine wall protest
Stephanie | Infoshop News Oakland, California is ground zero for many members of the Slingshot collective, but on March 13, Oakland felt like a distant outpost, really far away from Ni’ilin, in the West Bank, where our friend Tristan Anderson, ...
Read More »Live from the West Bank, Israel’s repression of Ni’lin
Max Blumenthal 16 May 2009 I have been in the West Bank of Palestine all week filming a video series on the Occupation that I will release in a few days. Yesterday, I traveled to Ni’lin, a town in the ...
Read More »State Attorney’s Office to police: forbidden to fire tear-gas canisters directly at demonstrators
B’Tselem 4 May 2009 According to media reports, the State Attorney’s Office has ordered the Police to review its guidelines for dispersing demonstrators. The order comes in the wake of the death of Bassem Abu Rahma, a Palestinian who was ...
Read More »Misuse of firearms suspected in Ni’lin
Aviad Glickman | YNet News 4 May 2009 Deputy State Prosecutor Yehoshua Lamberger has ordered the police to update protocols pertaining to the use of crowd control measures in demonstration dispersals, Ynet learned Monday. The order followed several cases in ...
Read More »Police negligent in probing fence protest casualties
Dan Izenberg & Yaakov Katz | The Jerusalem Post 5 May 2009 The death of Palestinian Bassem Ibrahim in Bil’in two-and-a-half weeks ago might have been prevented had the police carried out orders to investigate previous incidents in which protesters ...
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