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“Palestinian Embassy” Participates in Passport DC
This year a Pop-up Palestinian Culture Street Fest/protest was held at the Embassy of Palestine on a crowded public sidewalk directly across the street from the Israeli Embassy. Today’s event included passport stamping, along with Palestinian arts, crafts and fashions for sale, free Palestinian food samples, as well as children’s activities and numerous protest signs and banners. Included, too, were handouts with information about Israel’s genocide taking place in Gaza...
Posted: Sat, May 4, 2024 2:52pm PDT
Second Lawsuit Filed to Protect Hawaiian Petrels From Dangerous Lighting at Maui’s Grand Wailea
HONOLULU, May 2, 2024 — A coalition of conservation groups today filed a second lawsuit to protect Hawaiian petrels (ʻuaʻu) from dangerous lights used by the Grand Wailea Resort on Maui. Hawaiian petrels are protected as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act....
Posted: Fri, May 3, 2024 8:53am PDT
Gaza Student Protest at GWU Continues to Grow
Students at GWU continue on with their protest and encampment as the university preppares to have them removed....
Posted: Thu, May 2, 2024 5:47pm PDT
Anatomy of a Moral Panic
The repressive machine currently arrayed against campus protests follows a familiar pattern...
Posted: Thu, May 2, 2024 4:28pm PDT
CAIR Condemns House Adoption of Misleading Antisemitism Awareness Act
May 1, 2024 - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, tonight condemned members of the U.S. House of Representatives who voted hours ago to approve a one-sided, and dishonest proposal about campus antisemitism that ignored anti-Palestinian racism and conflates criticism of the Israeli government with antisemitism....
Posted: Thu, May 2, 2024 11:06am PDT
ACLU Condemns House Passage of Dangerous Bill That Would Chill Free Speech
This Bill Would Falsely Equate Criticism of Israel with Antisemitic Discrimination...
Posted: Thu, May 2, 2024 10:55am PDT
Environmental Journalism, a Most Dangerous Profession
“One environmental journalist is killed every two days” is how Jon Sawyer Executive Director, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, opened the first panel discussion ever on the dangers that environmental journalists face in doing their job. After war reporting, environmental journalism is the second most dangerous area for journalists to work in....
Posted: Wed, May 1, 2024 5:49pm PDT
UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment Press Release
April 30, 2024 - The life-threatening assault we face tonight is nothing less than a horrifying, despicable act of terror. For over seven hours, zionist aggressors hurled gas canisters, sprayed pepper spray, and threw fireworks and bricks into our encampment. They broke our barriers repeatedly, clearly in an attempt to kill our community....
Posted: Wed, May 1, 2024 6:09am PDT
Freedom Flotilla (audio/mpeg 2.8MB)
Freedom Flotilla delayed by Israel 2m30s...
Posted: Tue, Apr 30, 2024 9:05pm PDT
Escalation and Orientation
Let's strive to deepen the political horizons of this moment as much as the tactics....
Posted: Tue, Apr 30, 2024 4:29pm PDT
African Religious Organizations Call for Tripling Size of Vulnerable Countries Fund
Kenya President Ruto Hosts Heads of State and World Leaders for Aid Negotiations...
Posted: Mon, Apr 29, 2024 10:56am PDT
The Do-It-Yourself Occupation Guide 2024 Edition
Buildings are easier to defend than outdoor camps AND they can be more disruptive. For anyone ready to escalate for Gaza, check out this re-issue of a text that has been used in previous movements....
Posted: Mon, Apr 29, 2024 1:57am PDT
Updated List of Protests at Colleges, Universities
Updated list of colleges and universities where students are protesting the decimation of Gaza and Palestinians...
Posted: Sun, Apr 28, 2024 10:20am PDT
NLG Condemns Attacks on Gaza Solidarity Encampments
April 25th, 2024 - The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) unequivocally condemns the ongoing repression of pro-Palestinian activism taking place on university campuses across the country. The NLG is firm in its support for a free Palestine, and is against Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and occupation of the West Bank. The violent and unprovoked attacks by police on student encampments at Columbia, Yale, NYU, University of Southern California, Emory, University of Texas, and other universities ex...
Posted: Thu, Apr 25, 2024 11:36pm PDT
Columbia Students File Civil Rights Complaint After NYPD Arrests, National Guard Threat
April 25, New York, NY – Today, Palestine Legal filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), demanding an investigation into Columbia University’s discriminatory treatment of Palestinian students and their allies, including by inviting NYPD officers in riot gear — for the first time in decades — to arrest over a hundred students peacefully protesting Israel’s genocide last week....
Posted: Thu, Apr 25, 2024 3:55pm PDT
Police Attack Palestine Rally At Labor Notes, SF Library Workers & French Railway Workers
WorkWeek on KPOO covers the Police Attack on Labor Palestine Rally At Labor Notes, SF Library Workers & French Railway Workers, East Palestine Class Action Settlement & Aussie MUA On Palestine Struggle...
Posted: Wed, Apr 24, 2024 7:00pm PDT
Pro-Palestinian Campus Encampments Spread Nationwide Amid Mass Arrests at Columbia, NYU & Yale
April 23, 2024 - Palestinian solidarity protests and encampments are appearing on college campuses from Massachusetts to California to protest Israel’s attacks on Gaza and to call for divestment from Israeli apartheid....
Posted: Wed, Apr 24, 2024 10:50am PDT
Strike for Palestine this May Day and Nakba Day
Call to Action from the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions - Gaza Strip...
Posted: Wed, Apr 24, 2024 10:30am PDT
When will we finally end the party of the arms companies?
The people, however, want the opposite. They are afraid of war. They want peace and civil conflict resolution. They want social welfare and a decent standard of living.That is what politics should focus on. Unfortunately, in the current hysterical mood, there are only a few who have the courage to be pilloried as "party crashers", pro-Putin, pro-Hamas, pro-Mullah and other autocrats...
Posted: Wed, Apr 24, 2024 7:21am PDT
The Problem of Policing: A Primer, Part I
A brief look into policing, funding, and militarization....
Posted: Tue, Apr 23, 2024 10:23am PDT