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Aug. 2 National March On The White House: Stop The Massacre In Gaza!

July 28, 2014 Answer, www.answercoalition.org , , , , , ,
On July 16, Israeli Defense Forces deliberately targeted a group of children playing soccer on a Gaza beach, killing four from the same family and maiming the others—another war crime committed against the Palestinian people. Join thousands of people in a National March on the White House on Saturday, August 2 at 1:00pm to condemn the Israeli massacre in Gaza. We have been in the streets every day in cities around the country. What is needed now is a massive National March on Washington. Israel receives $4 billion in “aid” from the United States each year. This money is being used to commit war crimes against the Palestinian people in Gaza. We are demanding that all U.S aid to Israel be ended now! More than 200 people in Gaza have been killed and more than 1,500 have been wounded from Israeli bombs and missiles. This has to end!

France Becomes First Country To Ban Pro-Palestine Demonstrations

July 19, 2014 Middle East Monitor, www.middleeastmonitor.com , , ,
France's socialist government provoked outrage today by becoming the first in the world to ban protests against Israeli action in Palestine. In what is viewed as an outrageous attack on democracy, Socialist Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said mass demonstrations planned for the weekend should be halted. Cazeneuve said there was a "threat to public order", while opponents said he was "criminalising" popular support of the Palestinian people. Thousands were set to march against the ongoing slaughter in Gaza, calling for an immediate end to hostilities in which civilians, including many children, have been killed, but Cazeneuve fears there might be a repeat of the fights between ultra-Jewish vigilantes and pro-Palestinians which happened after a demonstration last Sunday. Referring to the main Paris march, Cazeneuve said: "I consider that the conditions are not right to guarantee security." He welcomed a legal procedure instigated by the Paris police prefecture to ban the march, despite it already being widely advertised. Cazeneuve also advised other prefects across France to examine planned marches on a "case-by-case" basis, and to ban them "if appropriate". Michele Sibony, of the Jewish Union for Peace, said: "By outlawing free speech by pro-Palestinian demonstrators, France puts itself in a unique position in the world and Europe."

Six Nations Protesters Stop Enbridge Line 9 Dig In North Dumfries

July 19, 2014 CBC News, www.cbc.ca , , , ,
Protesters from Six Nations and other parts of southwestern Ontario stopped work at a dig on a portion of the Line 9 pipeline in North Dumfries Thursday morning. According to a statement from protesters, a group marched onto a work site east of Highway 24 near the Grand River between Cambridge and Brantford around 10 a.m. Thursday. They say Enbridge’s employees are working without consent or consultation on land that is on Haudenosaunee territory. "We're against the pipeline, the construction, the bitumen tarsands oil running through this pipeline running across the Grand River territory... without proper consultation [with] our people," said Missy Elliot, a Six Nations spokesperson. The dig site is just north of Beverly Court and East of Highway 24 in North Dumfries between Cambridge and Brantford. (Google) Elliot said Six Nations was not consulted in advance of the construction and they only became aware of the dig when information pamphlets were delivered to area residents. "They are supposed to consult and accommodate indigenous people," said Elliot. "Pamphlets in the mail are not proper consultation. Not sitting with us at the table... is not proper consultation."

Protests Against Israeli Attack On Gaza

July 18, 2014 News2Share, www.youtube.com , , ,
Videos Of Protests Against Israeli Attack On Gaza. "War Profiteering Is Obscene," "Code Pink Founder Speaks Against U.S. Supporting Israel," " Code Pink Holds "Die-In" Memorial Demonstration."

Tent City Is Up At Staples!

July 17, 2014 Occupy Oakland, www.occupyoakland.org , , ,
The protest at Staples took on new dimensions today at 5:00 PM in the shape of small, but Occupyable tents between the sidewalk and the Staples parking lot in Berkeley on Durant between Shattuck and Milvia. Peeps from Berkeley Post Office Defenders and Occupy San Francisco are among the participants. As one of the campers said, “We’re here until Staples’ Post Offices aren’t.” The United State Postal Service and Staples began a pilot program back in October of 2013 whereby full-service Post Office stations were installed in some Staples around the country. But instead of being staffed by Postal Workers at living wage salaries they are being staffed by subsistence wage Staples employees. The American Postal Workers Union began protests and a boycott back in January, 2014. The boycott has been adopted nationwide by a large number of unions in recent months and has put serious pressure on Staples. A 24/7 table was set up in front on the Berkeley Staples on Shattuck just about a month ago, handing out literature and Boycott Staples postcards.

Come To Detroit Link Arms For Water

July 16, 2014 Ben Ptashnik, www.truth-out.org , , , , ,
On July 18, thousands of activists and dozens of organizations will converge in downtown Detroit to protest the privatization of the city's assets, and the disconnection of water to tens of thousands of low-income residents - what the UN has called a human rights violation. Demonstrators from around the country will come to rally in Hart Plaza at 1 PM to link arms with the citizens of Detroit to protest the hostile corporate takeover by Wall Street banks and their radical ALEC-led political allies in the Michigan Statehouse. The activist community of Detroit put out this call for help: We call on activists everywhere to come to Detroit on Friday, July 18 for a rally and march to fight the dictatorship of Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, appointed by millionaire Republican Governor Rick Snyder, and backed by Wall Street bankers and the 1%. Under a state-imposed bankruptcy, the City of Detroit workers face severe cuts to their pensions and tens of thousand people face water shut-offs.

Protesters Crash Stand With Israel Event

July 15, 2014 Anna Merlan, www.blogs.villagevoice.com , , , ,
Here's a question: why would the New York City Council and various other local and state politicians decide to wade into the miserable, never-ending, blood-filled dogpile that is the Israeli/Palestinian conflict? In what way does a press conference on the Middle East dovetail with the actual business of our elected officials here in New York? Could a press conference called "New York Stands with Israel" possibly serve any other concrete purpose except to be a magnet for controversy? Seriously, how could this possibly end well? And yet that's exactly what happened this morning on the steps of City Hall, where a passel of elected officials held a press conference to declare their support for Israel in the midst of this latest bout of sad, terrifying sectarian violence. You'll absolutely be able to predict what happened next.

Florida: Hughes Oil Company Drops Fracking Project

July 15, 2014 Julie Dermansky, www.desmogblog.com , , , ,
On Friday morning, Dan A. Hughes Oil Company and the Collier Resources Company agreed to terminate their lease agreement, with the exception of the Collier Hogan 20-3H well, next to the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Naples, Florida. Hughes Oil dropped its plans to drill an exploratory well adjacent to the Golden Gates Estates development. “We are very happy that Hughes won’t drill next to our home,” Pamela Duran, who lives 1,000 feet away from the previously proposed drill site, told DeSmogBlog. “I think the whole neighborhood feels like there is a heavy weight taken off our shoulders,” she said. “We make this announcement with the knowledge that our activities in the region have caused no harm to the environment and have been fully compliant with Florida Law,” Dan A. Hughes Company stated this morning in a letter published by the Naples Daily News. However, Hughes was caught moving forward with a workover request they made that had been denied by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) last New Years Eve. Their work order called for an “enhanced extraction” procedure synonymous to fracking, which had never been done before in Florida.

Video: Sentencing Hearing For Drone Protester

July 14, 2014 Upstate Drone Action Reports, www.upstatedroneaction.org , , ,
Mary Anne Grady Flores Sentencing Hearing following her conviction on the charge of ‘Contempt’ by a 6 person jury in DeWitt Town Court before Judge David S. Gideon. Mary Anne was charged for walking in the highway in front of the access road leading to the guard shack, taking pictures of protesters who were protesting the piloting of MQ-9 Reaper drones from Hancock Air National Guard Base. These drones fly over Afghanistan where they target and execute people on the ground. Targets often include civilians in their homes and cars going about the business of daily life.

Police Brutality Protesters Block Highway

July 14, 2014 Kevin McCallum, www.pressdemocrat.com , ,
A demonstration over the shooting death of 13-year-old Andy Lopez turned into a tense standoff with riot-gear-clad police Saturday afternoon after a group of angry protesters blocked traffic on Highway 101 near the Third Street off-ramp. The decision by about 20people to march up onto the busy freeway shortly after 4 p.m. escalated what had been a passionate but peaceful protest into a potentially volatile confrontation with police from three law enforcement agencies. No arrests were made and the show of force by officers ultimately coerced protesters — many of whom were from outside Sonoma County — off the freeway. But the face-off that followed at the base of the offramp between about 30 Santa Rosa police officers and a group of boisterous protesters who tried in vain to provoke them underscored just how potent and enduring the movement protesting Lopez's death remains.

38+ Countries Protesting Israeli Attack On Gaza

July 14, 2014 Revolution News, www.revolution-news.com , , ,
Protests are being organized around the world calling for peace in Palestine. Tweet your pictures to us at @NewsRevo or send them to our facebook page and we will add them here. Please be sure to list your city & country.

1,000+ March To Halt Fracked Gas Exports

July 14, 2014 Sandra Steingraber, www.ecowatch.com , , ,
I’m Sandra Steingraber, and I bring you greetings from my big-hearted friend, Bill McKibben, who sends you his love. And I also bring greetings from the unfractured state of New York. That’s where I live. I was born and raised in the Midwest, but it was New York that taught me how to fight. And we New Yorkers Against Fracking pledge our support, assistance and solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Maryland who are fighting the LNG terminal in Cove Point. Our destinies are intertwined. Our success depends on yours. Maybe you’ve heard of a little farming community in upstate New York called Dryden. Dryden is located across the lake from my own village. And a few years ago, Dryden became one of the first towns in New York to use zoning laws to ban fracking within its municipal borders.

Guatemalans Organize National Protests

July 12, 2014 First Peoples Worldwide, www.firstpeoples.org , ,
On June 24, 2014, 7 Toj in the Mayan calendar, Indigenous groups from all over Guatemala took part in national protests and roadblocks to bring attention to the continued discrimination and injustice faced by the Indigenous Peoples of Guatemala. Among the main priorities on the list of grievances were the discriminatory telecommunications laws and the mining and hydroelectric companies exploiting Indigenous territories. Our team took part in the march in the city of Quetzaltenango (Xela), in the department of Quetzaltenango. The march in Xela began at 8 am from three different entry points into the city center. The three groups would all meet for a larger demonstration in the Central Park of the city later that morning. Our team met with friends from Radio La Doble Vía and Asociación Mujb’ ab’l yol close to the terminal at the north west side of the city. Arriving there, it was shocking to imagine that this crowd represented only a third of the number of people that would be in the Central Park for the demonstration later on. An enormous crowd of mostly Maya Mam and Maya Kiche Indigenous groups were standing in front of Minerva Temple, with signs in hand, cheering along to chants like “Un pueblo unido jamás será vencido!” or in English, “United, we will never be defeated!”

Greenpeace Movie Pulled from YouTube

July 12, 2014 Jon Queally, www.commondreams.org , , , , ,
After initially having Greenpeace's super viral “Lego Movie” parody pulled from YouTube, Warner Bros. has withdrawn its complaint and the clip has been put back up on the video site. The video, which drowns characters from WB's mega-hit film in oil, was made as a protest against the toy company's $116 million sponsorship deal with Shell Oil. It had reached over 3 million views on YouTube in just a couple of days, before it was taken down late Thursday. UPDATE (1:02 PM EST): Statement sent by Greenpeace to its member regarding the banned video: It looks like LEGO and its corporate pals are more offended by a video than by the idea of Shell’s plan to drill for Arctic oil. Despite the real risk of a terrible and unstoppable oil spill in icy, pristine waters, Shell is determined to plunder every last drop of oil it can. Just like it’s not OK for a tobacco company to market to children, an oil company has no place promoting its brand on kids’ toys. So that's why we’re asking LEGO to show the world - and our children - that an ethical company won't work with Shell.

Berlin TV Tower Occupied By Refugees Seeking Asylum In Germany

July 12, 2014 RT, www.rt.com , , ,
Berlin police used force to evict 40 refugees occupying the city’s landmark TV tower on Wednesday. The demonstrators emphasized their place in German society and called for better political conditions, stating, “We are also people.” “Everywhere we are rejected. Everyone has the same answer for us, everyone pushes us further, no one listens to us,” said a statement from the group, published on the ‘Refugee Struggle for Freedom’ website. Around 40 refugees and several of their supporters bought Fernsehturm tickets and rode the lift up to the ball of the tower at Berlin’s Alexanderplatz, after moving from a cleared protest camp at Oranienplatz that sprang up on Saturday, according to local press reports. The protesters have demanded a meeting with Berlin’s mayor, according to RT's video agency Ruptly which was live at the scene.
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