POLITICS, POETRY & SATIRE
In today’s Guardian, Ant Loewenstein rightly advocates the use of UN sanctions to pressure the Australian government to end its regime of terror against hapless refugees corralled in offshore detention camps. Sanctions would make Australians, their racist government, the Australian media and the world sit up and take notice and apply punitive pressure to end …
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Dear Neil Young, Many of your fans, including our organization DPAI, are concerned about the recent announcement that you plan to perform to a segregated audience in July 2014 in what is an apartheid state: Israel. We sincerely ask that you reconsider your commitment to promoter Shuki Weiss who serves the interests of the state …
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Multiplication my liberation is a prime number indivisible by misogyny the boot on my neck also crushes the workers chose me first so long ago that which frightens must be controlled in the child’s face he recognised himself unsubstracted from bliss exponential substitutions a calculus of thundering heavens waves, winds, sun and a surfeit of …
4 January 2014 Dearest Moddi, Besieged Gaza, Palestine- We, academics, students and youth from besieged Gaza, wish to salute you for your principled and audacious decision not to entertain apartheid and violate the cultural boycott of Israel – a key aspect of the general BDS call from Palestinian civil society. The moment we learned about …
Cyndi Lauper, the country you are planning to entertain imposes violent segregation, not equality By Leehee Rothchild I’m glad that you believe in equality, so do I. Unfortunately, my country doesn’t. In the state of Israel, equality is a word frequently used, but rarely practiced. In the occupied territories, under Israel’s control, in East Jerusalem, …
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