World Palestine Newswire Archive

Welcome to This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for March 21st through March 27th, 2009.

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, March 26th, 2009.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, March 25th, 2009.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, March 24th, 2009.

Smash EDO Press Release

24th March 2009

For more Details call 07754135290

E-mail:  smashedopress@riseup.net

Tristan Anderson, an American activist with the International Solidarity Movement, was shot in the forehead by the Israeli border police during a non-violent demonstration on March 13th in the West Bank Palestinian village of Ni’ilin. Tristan’s parents, Nancy and Michael Anderson, held a press conference today (March 23) at the Alternative Information Center (AIC) in Jerusalem to demand justice for their son.

“We are scared and really just in shock,” said Mrs. Anderson with tears in her eyes. “To shoot peaceful demonstrators is horrific to us. We ask that the Israeli government publically take full responsibility for shooting our son.” To date, the Anderson family has not been contacted by any representative of the Israeli government or military, a fact that attorney Michael Sfard, who also spoke at today’s press conference, described at “shameful.”

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center,
www.imemc.org, for Monday, March 23ed, 2009.

On the 16th of January 6 people broke into EDO MBM arms factory to try and prevent crimes against humanity in Palestine.

Respect MP George Galloway has been barred from entering Canada to address a forum of Canada's Peace Movement. The Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration cites "national security concerns...

Welcome to This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for March 14th through March 20th, 2009.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center,
www.imemc.org, for Thursday, March 19th, 2009.

Following the resurgence of student activism in recent months, students from the University of Aberdeen have launched a new, independent website, in an attempt to form a network of activists across the UK.

Free Elijah James Smith and Robert Alford

When I got to Kensington High Street at about 3.30, BS 280 was hassling the handful of attendees to cross the road to the 'designated area'. "Perhaps you can help me out," I said. "For years I've been trying to find out what law you use to dictate where we can practice our freedom of expression, and now you're about to tell me". Strangely enough, he couldn't. BS were very appropriate letters for his epaulettes. It wasn't very plausible -the side of the road he was trying to send us to has a narrower pavement and lots of shop doorways. Where we were, there was a railing behind our backs. He tried for a bit longer and then gave up.

Having got over the habitual hassle from cops, I reflected that irritating as the nursery school teacher persona that British bobbies habitually don at political events can be, they pale into insignificance when compared to the hassle that demonstrators face in other parts of the world. Like Ni'lin with its weekly protests against the wall, which has had four of its young people killed since July 2008, and where fellow IMCista and ISMer Tristan Anderson was hit in the face with a gas cannister on Friday March 13th. Tristan is now in a critical condition in an Israeli hospital, and it was in solidarity with him and the people of Palestine that we were stood around the corner from the Israeli Embassy.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center,
www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, March 18th, 2009.

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff, on behalf of Rachel Corrie, Brian Avery, Tom Hurndall, Tristan Anderson and all the peace activists wounded or killed by Israeli Occupation Forces while defending the Palestinians.

Smash EDO Press Release

17th March 2009

For more Details call 07754135290

E-mail:  smashedopress@riseup.net

On March 13th, 2009, Tristan Anderson, from Oakland, California was critically wounded in the village of Ni'lin after Israeli forces shot him in the head with a high-powered tear-gas canister. Tristan is a dedicated activist and reporter who has long been committed to social and environmental justice in the U.S. and abroad in places such as Oaxaca, Iraq, and Palestine. Tristan has posted his reports to Indybay since 2001.

Reports: 1 | 2 | 3 | Video | International Solidarity Movement

Recent Indybay Coverage By Tristan (he also posted as "Eric Blair" and "Cricket"):
Four Demonstrators Shot and Wounded in Ni'ilin, Palestine | Last Four Oak Grove Tree Sitters Forced Down | Reclaim The Streets SF | March 19 - A Day of Many Actions

More Of Tristan's Indybay Reports Over the Years.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center,
www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, March 17th, 2009.