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Strathclyde University Gaza occupation wins demands

05-02-2009 20:07

Students who were, until this afternoon, occupying the McCance building at Strathclyde have today won some concessions and guarantees from the university.

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Police Threatening Violence Against Man Uni Occupations

05-02-2009 19:34

The occupation of Manchester University in Solidarity with the heroic people of Gaza is under threat of eviction by riot police.

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Palestine Today 020509

05-02-2009 16:13

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center
www.imemc.org, for Thursday, February 5th, 2009.

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parliament square hunger strike - day 25

05-02-2009 15:48

monday
staying in parliament square, maria gallestegui continues her hunger strike for gaza. she has yet to receive any worthwhile mainstream media coverage, despite now lasting 25 days without food

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Change? Or Just Charisma

05-02-2009 15:41

Lest one tallies up its achievements, of the 1330 dead Palestinians: 437 children, 110 women, 123 elderly men, 14 medics and 4 journalists. 5000 injured, of which 1890 are children. An estimated destruction worth $ 1.5 billion, the use of white phosphorous and other illegal weapons, and over 1.5 million horrific stories to listen to. Only the sadistic fascist type would later bathe in self-exuberance by calling this a ``success''. Yet in Israeli politics, launching the all-out war machine and destroying the lives of innocents in the name of `security' to gain or retain votes isn't new.

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Small Victories At Strathclyde University, But Victories Nontheless

05-02-2009 14:58

Students who were, until this afternoon, occupying the McCance building at Strathclyde have today won some concessions and guarantees from the university.

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I was fairly certain that one of us would be shot today.

05-02-2009 11:53

This morning (Tuesday 3rd February, 2009), farmers from Abassan Jadiida (New Abassan), to the east of Khan Younis , the southern region, returned to land they’d been forced off of during and following the war on Gaza. The continual shooting at them by Israeli soldiers while they work the land intensified post-war on Gaza. The Israeli soldiers’ shooting was not a new thing, but a resumption of the policy of harassment that Palestinians in the border areas have been enduring for years, a harassment extending to invasions in which agricultural land, chicken farms, and the houses in the region have been targeted, destroyed in many cases.

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Open Gaza Borders

05-02-2009 11:50


Gaza is in the grip of a man-made humanitarian crisis. Thousands of tons of food, medical and emergency shelter aid including blankets and mattresses, is being denied entry through crossings by both the Israeli and Egyptian governments.

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Israeli blockade stops aid to Gaza

05-02-2009 09:52

Israel and its Egyptian ally are continuing to hamper the entry of desperately needed humanitarian goods into the Gaza Strip after Israel’s assault on the Palestinians there

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The Way of Izvestia: BBC as a Metaphor for State Propaganda

05-02-2009 09:26

By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad'The BBC cannot be neutral in the struggle between truth and untruth, justice and injustice, freedom and slavery, compassion and cruelty, tolerance and intolerance.' Thus read a 1972 internal document called Principles and Practice in News and Current Affairs laying out the guidelines for the BBC's coverage of conflicts. It appears to affirm that in cases of oppression and injustice to be neutral is to be complicit, because neutrality reinforces the status quo. This partiality to truth, justice, freedom, compassion and tolerance it deems 'within the consensus about basic moral values'.

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Gaza New Siege Mechanism

04-02-2009 22:26

It is patently clear that to Tel Aviv, Washington and Brussels the assertion of PA rule over Gaza is the strongest argument for holding off reconstruction as a Damocles sword over Gaza, and for the occupying power this condition is its strongest "guarantee" for sustaining its grip on that sword. The fear now is that Israel and the international powers that have helped it to perpetuate its occupation since 1967 will use a Palestinian façade buttressed by official Arab support to stage a repeat in Gaza of the Iraq experience in the wake of the 1991 war when reconstruction and development were perpetually deferred in order to further weaken the country preparatory to toppling the regime through the invasion that took place in 2003.

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US Sold Phosphorus Shells to Israel

04-02-2009 22:06

The Pine Bluff Arsenal, a United States Army installation in Arkansas, specializes in chemical and biological weapons. The military touts them as the only facility in the Northern Hemisphere which fills white phosphorus munitions. That's the important point here, as it once again ties the US military directly into the Israeli war.

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Did the Israeli Army Wage a Jewish Jihad in Gaza?

04-02-2009 21:43

Extremist rabbis and their followers, bent on waging holy war against the Palestinians, are taking over the Israeli army by stealth, according to critics.

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Eviction video & post occupation statement from Nottingham Uni

04-02-2009 19:48

University security drag student protesters from lecture theatre
On the evening of Sunday 1st February university management issued an ultimatum giving protesters two minutes notice to leave. After this, university security entered B62 and used physical force, arm locks, pressure points and verbal aggression to end the peaceful sit-in, which had been called in solidarity with Gaza. For a video of the eviction, please see:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=rXqTSVhbcmw

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Victory For Queen Mary Occupation

04-02-2009 19:24

Students of the Queen Mary Occupation have claimed victory after eight days of occupying one of the main lecture theatres at the University.

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The University of Manchester Occupation in solidarity with Gaza

04-02-2009 17:52

Over 150 University of Manchester students have occupied the main university administration building in a demand for a stronger and more proactive position from the university on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

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Strathclyde University Occupied by Students

04-02-2009 17:32

Students at the Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland have occupied the main administration building (McCance) in solidarity with the people of Gaza.

UPDATE: The University has called in the police. Please express your support by publiczing this widely. Also call the protesting students on: 0759 5626057

More:
 http://pulsemedia.org/2009/02/04/strathclyde-university-occupied-by-students/

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Palestine Today 020409

04-02-2009 16:40

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center
www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, February 4th, 2009.

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MAYDAY! against EDO page set up

04-02-2009 13:07

On bankholiday Monday, May the 4th, there will be a mass event against EDO/ITT in Brighton.
Keep the day free!

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Gaza DEC appeal veto Birmingham's 'BBC Mailbox' Studio picketed 31st January 09

04-02-2009 05:58

Mukhtar reading a poem
The BBC claims it cannot show the appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee because it does not want to compromise its commitment to impartiality" Its head Mark Thomson has neglected to mention his visit to Israel in November 2005, where he held “peace talks” with Ariel Sharon over alleged anti-Israeli bias in the BBC. or his Jewish wife Jane Blumberg is a Zionist,
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