Occupation

Occidental Students Occupy For Resignation Of President And More

November 20, 2015 Tyler Kingkade, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Higher Education, Occupation, Race, Student Protests

By Tyler Kingkade for The Huffington Post - A group of more than 400 students have taken part in an ongoing occupation of an administrative building at Occidental College in Los Angeles to demand, among other things, the resignation of the school president, Jonathan Veitch. The student activists issued a list of demands at a rally Thursday in response to the treatment of minority student groups on campus. Other demands include the demilitarization of the campus police, the creation of a black studies major, and the immediate removal of the Los Angeles Police Department from campus. Activists have given the administration a Friday deadline to meet these demands.

US: Anti-TPP Activists Occupy Monsanto, Trade Center

November 17, 2015 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Occupation, TPP

By Staff of Tele Sur TV - Washington, D.C. joined Manila and ten other cities in protests against the Pacific trade agreement that is expected to affect all aspects of ordinary life. Crowds shut down traffic in Washington, D.C. on Monday and occupied various offices that are implicated in the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, which will be voted on soon. The #FallRising National Mobilization featured over 60 groups—from environmentalists to migrants to food justice activists—and representatives from the Philippines, where actions are ongoing against the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, where 12 Pacific-rim countries are finalizing the TTP.

The Two Jewish State Solution

September 7, 2015 Vox Tablet, www.tabletmag.com Educate! Colonialism, Faith, Israel, Occupation, Palestine

By Vox Tablet - Might “two Jewish states” exist within one “bi-national state”? And if so, what might the future hold? Is this the end of the two-state solution? Not at all. The two-state solution is becoming true for the Jews: The State of Judea is being built de facto side by side with the State of Israel. These are two nations whose differences are eclipsing their commonalities, a condition that is growing irreversible. The State of Judea has different standards, different approaches to democracy, and it has two justice systems, one for Jews (Israeli law) and the other for Palestinians (martial law). Whether we want it or not, these two justice systems have divergent measures to adjudicate identical offenses. Do nations have borders? Most of the time. These two states are separated by a clear border, the buffer zone/separation fence designed to distance us from Islamic/Palestinian terrorism but that, in fact, created a border between two Jewish states.

Israel Agents Sell Millions Worth In Illegal Properties In West Bank

September 2, 2015 Ben Norton, www.mondoweiss.net Resist! Israel, Occupation, Palestine, Real Estate

By Ben Norton in Mondoweiss - Over 20 agents for the real estate corporation RE/MAX Israel, working in at least eight offices, are selling many millions of dollars worth of illegal properties in over 15 settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Mondoweiss has compiled a non-exhaustive list of RE/MAX Israel offices and agents engaging in these illegal transactions (embedded below). In 2014, the Electronic Intifada revealed that the real estate company was selling illegal Jewish-only settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, both of which are recognized as occupied territories under international law. A 2013 United Nations report maintains that RE/MAX International, which is headquartered in the US, can be “held accountable” for RE/MAX Israel‘s illegal activity.

10 Places AIPAC Would Never Show Members Of Congress

August 18, 2015 Max Blumenthal, www.alternet.org Educate! Congress, Imperialism, Israel, Occupation, Palestine

By Max Blumenthal in Alternet - 58 members of Congress will be in Israel in the coming days on a tour sponsored by the America Israel Education Foundation, an arm of the pro-Israel lobbying organization, AIPAC. Though AIPAC claims the trip is an annual ritual with no connection to the increasingly rancorous debate over the Iran nuclear deal, the trip offers Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a key opportunity for face-to-face fear mongering with some of the lawmakers who control the deal’s fate. After the Republican delegation visits Israel, 22 Democrats — including several who represent key swing votes on the deal — will be shepherded through the AIPAC tour by House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, an Israel lobby favorite.

The 100 Year Occupation of Haiti By The United States

August 3, 2015 Mark Schuller, www.nacla.org Educate! Colonialism, Haiti, Imperialism, Occupation, Racial Justice, usa

By Mark Schuller in NACLA - This Tuesday marks the 100th anniversary of the commencement of the U.S. Occupation of Haiti. On July 28, 1915, U.S. Marines landed on the shores of Haiti, occupying the country for 19 years. College campuses, professional associations, social movements, and political parties are marking the occasion with a series of reflections and demonstrations. Several have argued that the U.S. has never stopped occupying Haiti, even as military boots left in 1934. Some activists are using the word “humanitarian occupation” to describe the current situation, denouncing the loss of sovereignty, as U.N. troops have been patrolling the country for over 11 years. While the phrase “humanitarian occupation” may seem distasteful and even ungrateful to some considering the generosity of the response to the January 12, 2010 earthquake, there are several parallels between the contemporary aid regime and the U.S. Marine administration.

The Fire Next Time: On The Next Gaza War

July 20, 2015 Max Blumenthal, www.commondreams.org Educate! Israel, Occupation, Palestine, Wars and Militarism

By Max Blumenthal in Common Dreams - "A fourth operation in the Gaza Strip is inevitable, just as a third Lebanon war is inevitable,” declared Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in February. His ominous comments came just days after an anti-tank missile fired by the Lebanon-based guerrilla group Hezbollah killed two soldiers in an Israeli army convoy. It, in turn, was a response to an Israeli air strike that resulted in the assassination of several high-ranking Hezbollah figures. Lieberman offered his prediction only four months after his government concluded Operation Protective Edge, the third war between Israel and the armed factions of the Gaza Strip, which had managed to reduce about 20% of besieged Gaza to an apocalyptic moonscape.

The BDS Movement At 10: An interview With Omar Barghouti

July 20, 2015 Interview with Omar Barghouti Adam Horowitz and Philip Weiss, www.mondoweiss.net Educate! BDS, Israel, Occupation, Palestine

Interview with Omar Barghouti by Adam Horowitz and Philip Weiss in Mondoweiss - BDS has played a critical role in changing the discourse on the question of Palestine after more than two decades of a fraudulent “peace process” that undermined Palestinian rights and served as a fig leaf for the expansion and entrenchment of Israel’s regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid. Today, Israel recognizes BDS as a “strategic threat” to its entire regime of oppression for several reasons. BDS is mainstreaming the quest for the UN-stipulated but long ignored rights of the entire Palestinian people and is gradually and methodically succeeding in isolating Israel academically, culturally and, to a lesser extent, economically as well. Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid struggle, BDS is also succeeding in exposing the toxicity of the “brand” Israel.

State Dep’t Says It Has No Objection To BDS

July 3, 2015 Philip Weiss, www.mondoweiss.net Resist! BDS, Genocide, Israel, Occupation, Palestine

In yet another sign that the American government is reassessing the special relationship between the U.S. and Israel, and that BDS is gaining traction, the State Department yesterday said that it did not oppose BDS, boycott, divestment and sanctions actions, aimed at the occupied Palestinian territories, because Israeli settlements “make it harder to negotiate a sustainable and equitable peace deal in good faith.” The statement was a special clarification of White House policy on the new fast-track trade bill, which contained a provision that Congress had included at the urging of Israel lobby groups: to punish European companies and governments that support BDS of Israel– including Israeli activities in the occupied territories.

Israeli Gov’t Protests As Israeli Vets Speak About Being Occupiers

June 5, 2015 Rick Cohen, www.nonprofitquarterly.org Educate! Israel, Occupation, Palestine, Veterans

By Rick Cohen in NPQ - The role of Breaking the Silence in Israel is in some ways similar to veterans’ organizations in the U.S. over the years, which have revealed misdeeds and abuse conducted by the U.S. military in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other U.S. overseas engagements before. Examples in the U.S. include Veterans for Peace, founded in 1985, and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, whose most famous member, now Secretary of State, John Kerry, testified before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in 1971 about atrocities and war crimes committed by U.S. troops in Indochina. Many people are uncomfortable with the idea of veterans protesting against the wars they were sent to fight and disclosing such tortures and abuses as the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib or the unprovoked killings of Iraqi civilians.

Nov. 1: Peace Through Revolution Rally And March

September 27, 2014 Staff, www.blackisbackcoalition.org Resist! Occupation, Racism, Wars and Militarism

The answer is social justice and reparations, which can only be achieved by resistance to oppression and winning power to the people. Those who are genuinely concerned with peace must fight for it. A real desire for peace is a desire for social justice and reparations. Those who want peace must take a genuine stance for social justice. We must distinguish ourselves from those who would settle for an imperialist peace that does nothing but protect the status quo. Let us say what we know to be the truth: the only real peace is peace through revolution! This is not to say that all the conditions have ripened for revolution. This is not a call for revolution on this day or at this moment. It is a demand that we advance to contend with those who would have us accept an imperialist peace that keeps us forever oppressed and exploited.

Solidarity Movement To End UN Occupation Of Haiti

September 25, 2014 Ajamu Nangwaya, www.blackagendareport.com Resist! Haiti, Occupation, United Nations

We are no longer living in the 19th century with the specter of Haiti’s successful struggle for its freedom haunting the consciousness of slave masters across the Americas. Yet the military occupation of this country since 2004 by way of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) is sending a clear message that the Haitians’ tentative step toward exercising control over the destiny in the 1990s and the early years of the new century is still “a source of alarm and terror” to imperial overlords such a Canada, France, and the United States. The MINUSTAH occupation army has a combined force of 7,408 soldiers and police personnel as of July 31, 2014. This armed entity has served as the muscle behind the schemes of the local elite and foreign interests in preventing the disenfranchised urban and rural laboring classes from seeking to capture the levers of national political, economic, and social power.

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