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Saturday 31 January 2009
ISRAELI GOODS SEIZED IN TESCO's AND COVERED IN BLOOD
Disclaimer: John Molyneux has got nothing to do with it
Full article on Undercurrents Alternative News. Video to follow soon.
Full article on Undercurrents Alternative News. Video to follow soon.
Sunday 25 January 2009
Join Facebook group to support John Molyneux
One of the most popular digital information mining centers, Facebook, evil as it is, runned and owned by neocons, has showed some support for our very own John Molyneux.
Sure, group page can benefit from some editing, but hey, it's all about the cause.
Click here to go to John Molyneaux should have not been arrested just because he supports GAZA. Facebook group.
To see why John Molyneux was arrested, check out this article from The News, as archived by Socialist unity
The News has also followed the story and printed an excellent article on 15/1/09 about the erosion of civil liberties, featuring John's arrest.
It can be found here
John Molyneux's case will be heard on Friday 17th April 9:30am (ready for 10am)
It will be a political trial and John will present (if the court allows) a political defence.
The BBC: Eyeless in Gaza
Palestinians "die" but Israelis are "killed" (the latter implies agency, the former could have happened of natural causes); Palestinians "provoke," and Israelis "retaliate;" Palestinians make "claims," and Israelis "declare." Moreover, schools, mosques, universities and police stations are part of the "Hamas infrastructure;" militants "clash" with F-16s and Apache helicopters. "Terrorism" is inextricably linked to Palestinians but Israelis merely "defend" themselves -- invariably outside their borders. All debates, irrespective of fact or circumstance, are framed around Israel's "security" -- Palestinian security is irrelevant. If Israel's wall annexing land in the West Bank is mentioned, it is in terms of its "effectiveness."
Read rest of the article on Electronic Intifada
Read rest of the article on Electronic Intifada
Thursday 22 January 2009
Israel: Boycott, Divest, Sanction
It's time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa.
From the article "Israel: Boycott, Divest, Sanction" by Naomi Klein. Read rest of it here
From the article "Israel: Boycott, Divest, Sanction" by Naomi Klein. Read rest of it here
Friday 16 January 2009
Sunday 4 January 2009
The Slaughter in Gaza: Strong Portsmouth Response
The appalling Israeli assault on the people of Gaza which in one week has killed more than 450 and left over 2000 injured met with a strong response from the people of Portsmouth on Saturday (3 Jan)
Over 400 people assembled in the Guildhall Square at a Rally called by Portsmouth Stop the War Coalition and Portsmouth Network for a Just Settlement of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. This was a superb turn out at short notice – the largest Rally in Portsmouth since the day they invaded Iraq - and the crowd was an excellent mix of young and old, students andtrade unionists, black and white, muslim and non-muslim.
The rally was chaired by John Molyneux (Sec. Stop the War and SWP member) and Angus Geddes (Convenor of the Portsmouth Network) and heard strong speeches from among others Suleiman Shaik, a Palestinian lecturer at Southampton University who has family in Gaza at this moment, from another Palestinian, Osama, who defended the right of the Palestinians to resist and Dave Fysh who delivered a powerful critique of media bias.
After the speeches every one marched through Commercial Rd to chants of ‘Free, Free Palestine’ and ‘In Our Thousands and Our Millions we are All Palestinians’, to the area by Tesco and Marks and Spencer, where leaflets were distributed urging a boycott of Israeli goods.
Outside Tesco the police arrested John Molyneux and have charged him under Section 11 of The Public Order Act 1986, with organising a demonstration without providing the require 6 days notice to the police. We in Portsmouth SWP consider this arrest a direct attack on the democratic right to protest and ask concerned people to send letters/emails of protest to The News (copies to Hampshire Police, Portsmouth City Council).
As this is being written the Zionists are invading Gaza with ground troops, thus creating an even worse catastrophe. There is clearly going to be need further protest.
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