Occupation

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.”

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.

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