Occupation

Bethlehem’s ‘Santa Claus March’ With Tear Gas,Rubber Bullets

December 25, 2016 Staff, www.maannews.com Resist! Christmas, Israel, Occupation, Palestine, Terrorism

By Staff for Ma’an News Agency. Israeli forces Friday suppressed Bethlehem’s “Santa Claus March,” shooting tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at participants, with many suffering from tear gas inhalation. The march, which includes participants dressing up as Santa Claus close to the Christian holiday of Christmas, was launched under the banner “Terrorism and occupation are two sides of the same coin,” and demanded the opening of Israeli checkpoints for Christian tourists to celebrate the holiday in the birthplace of Jesus Christ. A Ma’an reporter witnessed Israeli forces fire rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas into the crowd, which caused a number of participants to suffer tear gas inhalation. Five journalists were also injured, including the cameraman for the Jordanian al-Roya TV Muhammad Shoudha. Israeli forces reportedly fired tear gas canisters directly at his foot.

Israeli Forces Arrest 13-Year-Old Palestinian Weeks After Shooting Him

October 17, 2016 Sheren Khalel, www.mondoweiss.net Educate! Militarization, Occupation, Palestine, State Terror

By Sheren Khalel for Mondoweiss - In March, 12-year-old Ramzi Abu Ajamia got word that Israeli forces were looking for him. Terrified of getting arrested, Ramzi stopped sleeping at home and going to school. He succeeded in dodging Israeli forces for five months before he was spotted at clashes during an Israeli night raid on Dheisha refugee camp, where the now 13-year-old was born and raised. It all happened within seconds, Ramzi recalled to Mondoweiss. Israeli forces spotted the boy on the streets around 1 a.m., and fired.

Portrait Of An Occupation: The Human Rights Of The Settler

September 13, 2016 Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini, www.aljazeera.com/ Educate! Human Rights, Occupation, Settlers

By Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini for AL Jazeera - Just a few weeks after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that he cares about the rights and lives of Palestinians in Gaza more than the Palestinian leadership does, he posted a new video message on his Facebook wall, arguing that any future dismantlement of Jewish settlements in the West Bank would amount to “ethnic cleansing.” He went on to intimate that insofar as the U.S. and other western countries support the uprooting of Israeli settlements as part of an agreement with the Palestinians, they were, in effect, supporting the cleansing of Jews.

At Freedom Square, Revolution Lives In Brave Relationships

August 8, 2016 Kristiana Rae Colón, www.truth-out.org Resist! Chicago, Occupation

By Kristiana Rae Colón for Truthout - Chicago -- Today is Day 17 of occupying Freedom Square, a block party protest in opposition to Homan Square, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) "black site" that is internationally infamous for illegal detention and torture. Set up in a lot adjacent to the Homan Square facility in the North Lawndale neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side, the encampment includes an outdoor kitchen, tents to sleep in, a library, play areas, political education and organizing spaces and more.

Protesters Occupy Police Unions, Demand Investment In Black Communities

July 22, 2016 Staff, www.rt.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Divestment, Occupation, Police, Protests, Unions

By Staff of RT - Black Lives Matter protesters taking aim at police union offices forced a shutdown of one in Washington, DC. Simultaneously in Detroit, activists chained themselves to a police station to demand the ouster of an officer who shot dead a 7-year-old in 2010. Protests, held by Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) and Black Lives Matter, hit several cities across the US on Wednesday. July 20 would have been the 14th birthday of Aiyana Stanley-Jones, who was shot dead in a SWAT raid on her house in May 2010.

Brazil: 25 Buildings Occupied In Mass Indigenous Mobilization

July 20, 2016 Staff, www.earthfirstjournal.org Resist! Brazil, Indigenous Peoples, Occupation

By Staff of Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil - “CPI [Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry] wants to take our land and our territories, not just to criminalize FUNAI [National Indigenous Foundation];,and that has greatly increased violence against us–indigenous communities–and we cannot let CPI be greater than our force and our rights. We are going to fight against CPI; rights are not to be negotiated; rights must be respected,” said Sonia Guajajara, indigenous leader, in a collective interview with the Chamber of Deputies, after 25 FUNAI buildings were simultaneously occupied throughout Brazil.

Brazil Social Movement Plans To Escalate Land Occupations After Coup

May 26, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Brazil, Land Rights, Occupation, Politics, Social Movements, South America

By Staff of Tele Sur - Latin America's largest social movement has promised a new wave of farm occupations in Brazil following President Dilma Rousseff's suspension to stand trial in the Senate, an official with the Landless Workers Movement (MST) said. The movement, a long-time ally of Rousseff's Workers Party which says it has two million members across Brazil, will target "idle" farm land owned by members of the interim government and its backers, MST spokeswoman Marina do Santos said Tuesday.

5 Years On: Why Occupations Of 2011 Changed The World

April 30, 2016 Paolo Gerbaudo, www.roarmag.org Resist! Occupation

By Paolo Gerbaudo for ROAR Magazine - What has become of the great promise of social change raised by the “movements of the squares” of 2011? What did those spectacular occupations of public squares, from Tahrir in Cairo to Puerta del Sol in Madrid and Syntagma in Athens leave behind? To what extent did they contribute to advancing the cause of the “99%” or of the “common and ordinary people” they purported to fight for? With protest movements, as with any other social and political phenomenon, there comes a time to take stock of what has happened — a time that is as important for evaluating the past as it is for planning future action.

Undeterred Students Keep Up Second Week of Divestment Sit-Ins

April 20, 2016 Nadia Prupis, www.commondreams.org Resist! Divestment, Higher Education, Occupation, Student Activism

By Nadia Prupis for Common Dreams - Students at three major American universities are digging in for a series of prolonged sit-ins and risking suspension and arrest to demand that their schools divest from fossil fuels. NYU's protest, which launched Monday, saw students with NYU Divest occupying the administrative elevator and lobby of the school's Bobst Library to demand the Board of Trustees holds a vote on divestment at its next meeting and allows the group to give them a presentation.

Occupy Buenos Aires: Workers’ Movement Transformed City

April 11, 2016 Matt Kennard and Ana Caistor-Arendar, www.theguardian.com Create! Argentina, Cooperatives, Occupation, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Matt Kennard and Ana Caistor-Arendar for The Guardian - The Hotel Bauen in downtown Buenos Aires looks like its best days are behind it. The art deco interior is crumbling, three of the lifts are out, and the whole place looks like it could do with a lick of paint. It’s an unlikely candidate to be at the centre of perhaps the most successful worker occupation movement in the world. Bauen was opened in 1978, thanks in no small part to a subsidy from the military junta of the time, to provide five-star accommodation for travellers to the World Cup held in the country that same year.

New Documentary – ‘West Papua: a Hidden Genocide’

April 8, 2016 Sam Gollob and Josh Leong, www.joshlongstudios.weebly.com Educate! Genocide, Indonesia, Occupation, West Papua

By Sam Gollob and Josh Leong. Encounter the struggle, suffering, and injustice in West Papua through the eyes of Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Herman Wainggai - a formal political prisoner and escapee living in exile. His visceral and emotional experiences convey the brutal realities of the hidden genocide currently taking place in West Papua. Recalling his early childhood, his prison time, and his dramatic escape from the West Papuan border, relive the journey Herman has taken to freedom. Filled with faith, determination, tragedy, and resilience, Herman’s eye-opening narrative reveals to the world a genocide masked by deception, and silenced by oppression.

Activists Occupy Superdome, Call For No New Oil Leases!

March 24, 2016 Staff, www.risingtidenorthamerica.org Resist! Climate Change, Climate Justice, Occupation, Protests

By Staff of Rising Tide North America - Currently, hundreds of climate and social justice activists are occupying the Superdome in New Orleans in a mass protest calling to keep 43 million acres of oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico. Today, the Obama administration is auctioning off those 43 million acres to the oil and gas industry. Courageous activists have taken a stand to say a resounding “NO” to further oil extraction by the same people that brought us the BP Oil Disaster in 2010 and continue to decimate communities and ecosystems along the Gulf Coast.

Jewish Activists Protest Israeli Rebranding

March 20, 2016 Kit O'Connell, www.mintpressnews.com Resist! Israel, Occupation, Palestine, Racism

By Kit O'Connell for Mintpress News. Activists drummed, rapped, and danced as SXSW attendees streamed into the JW Marriott in downtown Austin, Texas, on Monday morning for a panel titled “Building The Perfect Country.” Panelists included Ido Aharoni, the consul general of Israel in New York and one of the key minds behind “Brand Israel,” a campaign aimed at boosting the nation’s image abroad by adopting marketing techniques used by successful companies. Organized by the local chapter of Jewish Voice For Peace, the protesters outside the panel objected to the idea that a country based on occupation could be anything resembling perfection.

Demand Airbnb Stop Listing Rentals In Israeli Settlements

February 2, 2016 Ramah Kudaimi, www.endtheoccupation.org Petitions and Online Actions Housing, Israel, Occupation, Settlements

By Ramah Kudaimi for End The Occupation - Did you hear all the buzz around Airbnb, the online accommodation service, listing homes in illegal Israeli settlements for people to rent? There are 13,000 Airbnb listings in Israel, though investigations have revealed that many of the properties are actually located in settlements built on stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank. By allowing users to list and rent these properties and taking 9-15% from hosts and guests, Airbnb is making money off of Israel’s continued military occupation of Palestinian land and helping facilitate settlement activity.

Utah Protest Responds To Oregon Militia

January 20, 2016 Staff, www.fox13now.com Resist! Land, Occupation, Oregon Militia, Salt Lake City

By Staff of Fox 13 News - SALT LAKE CITY -- The occupation of Oregon’s Malhuer National Wildlife Refuge sparked another occupation in Salt Lake City Sunday, as activists in favor of government managing public lands made their voices heard at a duck pond at Sugar House Park. Among those gathered at the park was a man calling himself “Slickrock Stranger” who sang a new take on the classic, “This Land is Your Land.”

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