Reposted from Starhawk’s Blog GFM 4 12-29 Morning So, back to yesterday. I never made it over to the French Embassy, where the French contingent has been encamped, surrounded now by the Egyptian police and not allowed to leave although people have been allowed to pass in food and water. Our encampment in front of the [...]
Monday, December 28, 2009
repost from Sam Husseini at http://husseini.posterous.com/ Just after midnight I couldn’t sleep. Went out to get a bite to eat or maybe a glass of wine to help me sleep. See several CodePink people and others with the Gaza Freedom March, say they are going to the French embassy — they had put out an alert: “As [...]
Monday, December 28, 2009
Still a bit dazed and confused from jetlag, I went down to the Lotus Hotel where Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright and many of the other organizers are staying. It is also peeling and seedy, and when people told me, “Thank you for putting your life on the line,” I didn’t quite imagine that [...]
Sunday, December 27, 2009
By Yvonne Ridley The activities of the rent boys who parade up and down Al-Shawarby Street in Cairo provide a good metaphor for the relationship the Egyptian Government has with Israel and the US. Both are quite shameless and ruthless; prepared to do whatever it takes to please … in order to secure a fistful of dollars. But [...]
Thursday, November 5, 2009
In casting a vote to repress the Goldstone Report, 344 U.S. Representatives agreed Tuesday to look the other way. 344 U.S. Representatives voted to condemn a report they had not read. 344 U.S. Representatives voted to deny that with our rights as a free nation come responsibilities to uphold integrity and honesty, [...]
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Jezebel.com just posted a photo and info from CODEPINK’s Ahava action in DC yesterday — here. The comments are all over the place, some supportive, some wondering why we’re wearing bikinis (just for attention? because we can?), and some just wondering what we’re doing. To explain a bit: the demonstration was part of CODEPINK’s new campaign, [...]
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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