Lawyer imprisoned for more than 2 yrs for defying “special rules” for terror suspect—before U.S. law people are UNequal Free Lynne Stewart! Lynne Stewart was sent to prison on November 19, 2009. People throughout the United States and around the world recognize this as a great miscarriage of justice.Her indictment was an outrage. So too was her conviction. The fact that this seventy year old veteran civil rights attorney has been sent to prison is a crime itself. She is serving a 28 month sentence although the Court of Appeals has remanded her case back to the original trial court with the hope that her sentence will be lengthened. The Bush Justice Department had sought a 30 year sentence.“Lynne Stewart should be set free,” stated Brian Becker, national … [read more]

Director: Gopal Menonwww.youtube.com/watch?v=rygJzzutBOg www.youtube.com/watch?v=66Kvl3e1MlM We have been hearing many stories about the human rights violations before and after Operation Green Hunt was announced. Allegations and counter-allegations have been going around. Fact-finding investigations have uncovered the atrocities security forces are committing in these areas, but now those very findings are being questioned.At such a time it is crucial to present the reality and tear the veils obscuring the truth. When the State Declares War on the People is a 15-minute trailer by Gopal Menon based on his recent coverage of the ground reality in Chhattisgarh. This short film contains exclusive interviews with victims and their testimony including 1 ½ year old Suresh who had three … [read more]

Interview with Juliano Mer-Khamis, founder of Freedom Theatre Jenin. Pre-published from the forthcoming issue No 30, of INTIFADA, the magazine of the Anti-imperialist Camp. Juliano Mer-Khamis was born in 1958 in Nazareth into a mixed marriage. His Arab father as well as his Jewish mother were political activists. He was named after Joul Jamal, an Arab naval officer from Syria, who destroyed the french battleship Jean-Bart in a kamikaze attack during the Suez Crisis of 1956. His mother, Arna Mer, was a well-known political activist. Her role in the children’s theatre of the Jenin refugee camp is the subject of Julianos film „Arna’s Children“. His father, Saliba Khamis, was a prominent Arab member of the Israeli Communist Party in the 1950s and 1960s.  Both his … [read more]

An o pen Letter to the Board of Governors of Trondheim University By Abnaa el-Balad- The Student Movement, Haifa, 5 November 2009  We are Arab students at the Israeli universities writing to you in support of the proposed academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions. We believe that the boycott is timely and hopefully will help in upholding moral values of fairness, justice and equality which have been sorely missed in our region. While the reason for the boycott is rightly what has been going on in the 1967 occupied territories, we propose another angle which affirms the need for boycott, namely our daily experience as Arabs in Israeli institutions. We are the lucky ones who have been able to pursue our studies in institutions of Higher Education, to which we arrived against … [read more]

يصدر الشهر القادم عن  Ø¯Ø§Ø± الساقي للنشر كتاب مذكرات الحكيم جورج حبش، وفيما يلي مقدمة الكتاب بقلم الدكتور أنيس الصايغ أعترف بأني أشعر بشيء من الرهبة التي تبعث بعضاً من تحفّظ وتردّد وأنا أشرع في كتابة هذا التقديم … [read more]

The illegitimate Israeli occupation military court in Bir Saba today extended Sa'adat's isolation for six additional months.As actions across Palestine and around the world in support of imprisoned Palestinian national leader Ahmad Sa'adat continue, the illegitimate Israeli occupation military court in Bir Saba today extended Sa'adat's isolation for six additional months. Take action today to say that we will not allow these abuses to continue!Ahmad Sa'adat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, continued his boycott of the occupation courts, stating that these courts are illegitimate, invalid and can produce nothing but a mockery of justice, and that these courts are part and parcel of the war machine that continues its aggression against the … [read more]

At first sight, Mupalla Laxman Rao, who is about to turn 60, looks like a school teacher. In fact, he was one in the early 1970s in Andhra Pradesh’s Karimnagar district. In 2009, however, the bespectacled, soft-spoken figure is India’s Most Wanted Man. He runs one of the world’s largest Left insurgencies—a man known in Home Ministry dossiers as Ganapathi; a man whose writ runs large through 15 states. The supreme commander of CPI (Maoist) is a science graduate and holds a B Ed degree as well. He still conducts classes, but now they are on guerilla warfare for other senior Maoists. He replaced the founder of the People’s War Group, Kondapalli Seetharaamiah, as the party’s general-secretary in 1991. Ganapathi is known to change his location frequently, and intelligence reports … [read more]

بيان صادر عن المنتدى العربي في الأرض المحتلة حول موقف سلطة رام الله من تقرير جولدستون ÙŠØªÙˆØ§ØµÙ„ تفاعل قطاعات شعبنا وأمتنا وأحرار العالم في نقد تأجيل عرض تقرير لجنة جولدستون، ويزداد الاقتناع أن التأجيل كان بهدف السحب، … [read more]

بيان حول الانتخايبات النيابية في تونس Ø­Ø²Ø¨ العمل الوطنيّ الديمقراطيّ   أيّتها المواطنات أيّها المواطنون ÙÙŠ يوم 25 أكتوبر 2009 لكم موعد مع الإنتخابات التّشريعيّة، انتخابات يختار فيها المواطنون من سيمثّلهم في مجلس … [read more]

فلسطين - لبى ما يقارب الـ-50ØŒ000 نداء لجنة المتابعة العليا، حيث شاركوا في المسيرة القطرية المركزية في قرية عرابة البطوف، احياءً لذكرى انتفاضة القدس والاقصى - هبة اكتوبر 2000.   ÙˆÙ‚د انطلقت بعد صلاة الظهر من امام مسجد … [read more]

The European Court of First Instance (ECFI) annulled yesterday all decisions and a regulation of the Council of the European Union (EU) that had maintained Prof. Jose Maria Sison in its so-called terrorist blacklist. The removal of the name of Prof. Sison from the blacklist is the essence or main point of the ECFI judgment on Case T-341/07 of Prof. Sison against the Council of EU. It directly unfreezes Sison's funds in his small bank account and allows him to engage in financial dealings like any ordinary person. To annul the acts of the Council in blacklisting Prof. Sison and freezing his account, the ECFI ruled that the national decisions done in The Netherlands and relied upon by the Council did not relate to the instigation of investigations or prosecution or to a conviction … [read more]

In a landmark decision, Britain’s trade unions have voted overwhelmingly to commit to build a mass boycott movement, disinvestment and sanctions on Israel for a negotiated settlement based on justice for Palestinians. The motion was passed at the 2009 TUC Annual Congress in Liverpool today (17 September), by unions representing 6.5 million workers across the UK. Hugh Lanning, chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said: ‘This motion is the culmination of a wave of motions passed at union conferences this year, following outrage at Israel’s brutal war on Gaza, and reflects the massive growth in support for Palestinian rights. We will be working with the TUC to develop a mass campaign to boycott Israeli goods, especially agricultural products that have been … [read more]

The reports from the field can be retrieved here:First report Second report Third report The same pictures can be downloaded with higher resolution from the following links (1.5MB):http://www.sendspace.com/file/9wxadj http://www.myupload.dk/showfile/313280bc42e.rar http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?gm3jhzgogwy   Upon arrival at the Beirut airport the voluntaries were received by a member of the partner organisation Nashet in his flat.   The common lunch at the river in Saida was the upbeat of the project. It was the first encounter to get to know each other.   After having eaten the smoke of the Nargile (Shisha) should not lack…   Meeting with Osama Saad, leader of the Nasserist People’s Party and former MP   The chairman of … [read more]

Final report from Sumud, Ain el Hilweh, LebanonThis is the third report that was meant to be sent on our last evening in the refugee camp; unfortunately this was not possible due to the lack of time and the usual problems with the electricity.Thursday, September 3rd – 11.00 PM, Refugee Camp of 'Ein el-HilwehThis is our last evening here, we only have two hours left in the camp and then we will have to leave to the airport in Beirut to take the plane which will carry us to Budapest and then back to Italy, Austria, Germany and England.The opening of the building just finished, we spent the whole day organizing it and we think it went really well, we had a picture slideshow, some music, Dabka dancers and an “Italian” buffet (which was cooked by three of our volunteers). The … [read more]

The purpose of the current much-trumpeted operation by the paramilitary forces in Lalgarh region of West Midnapore (West Bengal), is to suppress the democratic upsurge of the tribals and to send out a warning to all oppressed sections against any attempt to similarly challenge the State authority and establish people’s authority. It is also part of the ruling classes’ systematic long-planned attack on the communist revolutionaries nationwide who are challenging the entire system of exploitation and oppression. For these reasons it is incumbent on all communist revolutionaries and revolutionary democrats to stand steadfast by the tribals of Lalgarh, oppose the State’s campaign of suppression, and uphold the right of the masses to rebel against the existing oppressive … [read more]

 ÙˆØµÙ„ مساء السابع عشر من آب (أغسطس) وفد منظمة "صمود" التضامنية إلى مخيم عين الحلوة قادما من العاصمة الإيطالية روما. يضم الوفد متطوّعين تضامنيين من كل من إيطاليا والنمسا وألمانيا وبريطانيا، قدموا في إطار المشروع … [read more]

This is the second report from the Camp, sent by the Sumud Brigade after 10 days from the beginning of the mission. Saturday, August 29th – 3.00 AM, Refugee Camp of 'Ein el-Hilwehreproduced from www.sumud.org We have now been 10 days in the camp.Every one is okay, but we're also really tired. Everyday we work to the renovation in the morning, then some more in the afternoon, and we often have activities in the late afternoon and the evening. But of course we also feel the need to spend time with each other and chat, and usually we're free only after dinner: therefore we tend to go to bed quite late and sleep only a few hours.We now have an internet connection inside the building (we are staying in the same building we're working on), but electricity (“karaba” in Arabic, … [read more]

Vorabdruck „Intifada Nr. 29, Herbst 2009“: Zu Obamas Außenpolitik und den Erwartungen der Welt  Vor einer inhaltlichen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Diskurs des neuen amerikanischen Präsidenten muss festgestellt werden, dass die acht langen Jahren seines Vorgängers George W. Bush dafür sorgten, dass schon der Abgang von Bush als Person an der Spitze der US-Politik von Vielen als eine historische Wende angesehen wurde. Da musste Obama nicht viel dazu tun. Er übernahm seine Funktion jedoch im Zeichen einer Weltwirtschaftskrise, mitten in zwei angefangenen und nicht beendeten Kriegen und im Schatten einer in unterschiedlichen Graden vertieften Feindschaft der USA mit dem Rest der Welt. Seine Person musste für alle die vorgefertigte Figur des Hoffnungsträgers erfüllen. … [read more]

First reportOur work brigade has now been in Lebanon for four days, and in the camp for two days.Upon our arrival, permission to enter the camp was refused by the Lebanese military even though all the bureaucratic steps had been taken: the reason given by the military was they are not used to such large groups asking permission to enter, but we suppose that political matters also played a role.While we were staying outside of the camp, with the help of our comrades in Nashet we managed to arrange two meetings with Lebanese political parties.The first one was with the Popular Democratic Party, a Marxist-Leninist party with a clear anti-imperialist outlook which supports resistances worldwide, and to whom of course the Palestinian Resistance is a crucial point; they also have been carrying … [read more]

نظم المركز الثقافي العربي النمساوي يوم الجمعة السابع من آب/ أغسطس فعالية احتجاجية مبتكرة مقابل "شاطئ تل أبيب" على قناة الدانوب في مدينة فيينا، حيث قدمت فرقة الهيب – هوب الفلسطينية „Ramallah Underground“ (رام الله تحت الأرض) … [read more]