Gaza Solidarity Mobilization, Washington DC 08.02.14 from Mike Flugennock on Vimeo.
Far more folks than I expected rolled into DC yesterday afternoon to pack Lafayette Square and get all up into President Farting Rainbows’ face about Gaza.
The word I heard flying around the park was that this was the biggest demonstration in the US so far, which was a surprise considering how big the Chicago march was.
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From police assaults on citizens photographing Occupy protests to Al Jazeera reporters’ imprisonment by the Egyptian regime, journalists have endured escalating attacks by authoritarian regimes both in the US and abroad.
It’s gotten to the point where simply reporting the news is an act of resistance.
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Here’s one for our friends in Israel, just to let them know I’m thinking of them as they search diligently for their precious missing teens.
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Israelis Kill Palestinian During House Searches In West Bank, Al Jazeera English, 06.17.14
Israel Teens Search Aims To “Break” Hamas, Al Jazeera English, 06.18.14
On the Al Jazeera English Live Twitter feed, I followed Sunday’s wet, sloppy blowjob — uh, that is, speech — by Barack Obama to the annual AIPAC bribefest down at the Convention Center. You know it’s campaign season again when AIPAC hits town and the parade of Washington toadies forms a line from the Capitol and the White House to the DC Convention Center
If you wanted to find out what Israel and the USA are guilty of, just check out Obama’s AIPAC speech and see what he accuses the Palestinians of doing. The hypocrisy, groveling, pandering and doubletalk were nothing short of breathtaking. Israel demands the recognition of their Right To Exist™, but they want to deny Palestine’s right to exist, except as an open-air prison. Israel demands the right to defend itself — while Palestine must sit still and be brutalized, and any act to defend itself is “terrorism”. Of course, the USA is ready to defend Israel’s record of oppression and brutality at the United Nations and elsewhere because… well, we’re all they’ve got. (Wasn’t that an old Cars song?)
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