Month: December 2011

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More Inspirational BDS Successes!

A good day for BDS, a good day for justice

Omou Sangaré has cancelled her performance in Tel Aviv scheduled for the 9th December.

BDS : Oumou SANGARÉ annule son concert en Israël !

This is the DPAI (Don’t Play Apartheid Israel) letter to her:

OPEN LETTER to Oumou Sangaré … Don’t close your eyes to torment

Over 150 Swiss artists pledge to boycott apartheid Israel.

Declaration of Swiss Artists Responding to the Palestinian Appeal for Solidarity

Please like and share these pages for Bruce Springsteen (kite-flying maybe but it has been in the Israeli media a lot)

Bruce Springsteen: Working on a Dream for justice, not apartheid
And Ana Moura – 27th January and performing in Dublin beforehand
Ana Moura: Please Don’t Sing for Apartheid
Arch Enemy who have banned and deleted BDS postings from their official page
Arch Enemy: Resist Playing for Apartheid Israel

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Freedom Carols for Palestine

Freedom Carols for Palestine, November 29, 2011 outside Dezire Cosmetics store at Broadway Shopping Centre. Dezire sells Ahava products and Ahava is targeted by the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israeli Apartheid because its products are made from stolen Palestinian natural resources. Organised by Coalition For Palestine to mark UN Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

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Rafeef Ziadah – “Shades of Anger”

Rafeef Ziadah in London on the 12th November, 2011.

“You tell me I send my children out to die,
But those are your copters, your F-16s in our skies.”

Samah Sabawi will be presenting at the Labor Fringe in Sydney on the 3rd December 12.45pm to 2pm at Darling Harbour – make sure you are there to support if you can!

Related Links

Israel’s vile blockade on Gaza affects the sick – the most vulnerable people – in terrible ways.
Bruce Springsteen: Working on a Dream for justice, not apartheid
Ana Moura: Please Don’t Sing for Apartheid
Palestinian citizens of Israel and Jewish Israelis protest the death of public housing
In Historic Move, Iceland Becomes the First Western European Nation to Recognize Palestinian Statehood
‘In a meeting Monday night of the NUS’ National Executive Council (NEC), a motion demanding the “immediate end” of KCL’s research project with Ahava was passed with no votes against.

The NEC motion, noting the “overwhelming” international position on the illegality of Israeli settlements, states that “by collaborating with Ahava, King’s itself has become complicit with violations of international law”.’

Witnesses in Bassem Tamimi’s Trial: We were Instructed by Interrogators to Incriminate Him
AIUK : USA only country in world to sentence child offenders to life in prison without parole
Solidarity, Renewal, and Struggle: Revolution Until Liberation
PACBI-Arch Enemy: Stand with Revolution not Apartheid

Occupy Links

Egypt rights group goes after gov’t over US tear gas imports
Robert Fisk: A glimpse of real democracy – but it may prove too good to be true
Election updates in Egypt
A Voter’s Lament – By Mohamed El Dahshan

Australia Links

Australia lowest among OECD disability rankings :

Shame on Australia, and shame on Julia Gillard : ‘The report, Disability Expectations: Investing in a better life, a stronger Australia, found that 45 per cent of people with a disability in Australia live in or near poverty, the worst out of OECD countries, where the average is 22 per cent.’