Last entry for the night, to explain, as promised, what the blog is about. It’s pretty simple. My process of writing articles involves receiving a lot of information, usually from friends in Latin America, in Spanish, and to a lesser extent from friends in other places, about what is going on. I collect all these things, and try to put them together in articles. But there is usually a great deal more material than can be put into articles…
So the blog will contain a lot of these kinds of things. Quick notes from the Latin American press, or reports from the International Solidarity Movement, or something noteworthy I saw on a fine site like the News Insider, or some other kind of report that would otherwise not see the light of day. Occasionally, I might add some commentary on something in the mainstream/corporate press (perhaps the Canadian press, since I have the (mis)fortune of being exposed to it here), although I expect there will be fantastic blogging on that here in the Z Blogging area — by Wise, Street, Petersen, UTS, Chomsky — and of course just outside of the Z Blogging area in Rahul Mahajan’s Empire Notes.
Category: Palestine
Justice for Palestine? Noam Chomsky interviewed by Stephen R. Shalom and Justin Podur
http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/20040330.htm
. 1. What do you see as the best solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict?
On the Anniversary of Rachel Corrie’s Murder
http://www.zcommunications.org/on-the-anniversary-of-rachel-corries-murder-by-justin-podur
On March 16, 2004, people will hold vigils and ralles in different parts of the world to remember Rachel Corrie, a young American woman, part of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), who was murdered in the Gaza Strip by a bulldozer on the same day last year.
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Palestinian Child Prisoners
http://www.zcommunications.org/palestinian-child-prisoners-by-justin-podur
Review of:
Stolen Youth: The Politics of Israel’s Detention of Palestinian Children. Catherine Cook, Adam Hanieh, and Adah Kay. Pluto Press, London, 2004. 197 pages.
Another Turn of the Spiral
http://www.zcommunications.org/another-turn-of-the-spiral-by-justin-podur
A Multifaceted Fraud: Reviewing Irshad Manji’s ‘Trouble With Islam’
http://www.zcommunications.org/a-multifaceted-fraud-by-justin-podur
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Letter to a Zionist
http://www.zcommunications.org/letter-to-a-zionist-by-justin-podur
It’s been almost a year. Do you remember it? It was a speaking event like any other but it sticks out in my mind even now. A friend from the International Solidarity Movement had come back from the Occupied Territories and was giving his report. Others offered some analysis of the situation there. It was well attended. I was the moderator.
Road Map Theatrics
http://www.zcommunications.org/road-map-theatrics-by-justin-podur
On August 3, 2003, the Associated Press reported on the progress of the road map. Some of the ‘wanted men’ of Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades were to be packed off to Jericho from Arafat’s compound in Ramallah. It is not always clear what a Palestinian has to do to make himself a ‘wanted man’.
Palestinians struggle against deportation
http://rabble.ca/news/palestinians-struggle-against-deportation
The Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees was formedby a group of Palestinian refugees with the help of organizers from No Oneis Illegal and Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights in Montreal. TheCoalition immediately found that there are a significant number ofrefugees set for deportation and a large number awaiting their first courtdate.
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Murdering Solidarity
http://www.zcommunications.org/murdering-solidarity-by-justin-podur
Picture this: 20 military vehicles, including an armoured personnel carrier, surround an office in broad daylight. Dozens of soldiers and police proceed to raid and loot the office, breaking equipment, stealing computers, and kidnapping the workers in the office-three unarmed women, one of whom has since been released.