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Human Rights Watch Documents Israeli Apartheid
Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine Director for Human Rights Watch, with the first part of his talk at Yale ** 90-year-old Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos quits British Labour Party before they expel him for having the gall to speak at a panel with anti-Zionists ** Jewish religious nut attacks Christian statue in Jerusalem, part of a pattern *** news of Atlanta Forest Defenders** #991
This Palestinian Child Suffered for 5 Weeks Until He Died
One of the Palestinians who died on 1/26/23 was a little boy who had been injured in Gaza in August '22 Israeli attack ** 9 Palestinians killed by Israel in worst West Bank attack in decades ** Bridgeport rally to remember Manuel Teran (Tortuguita), the activist shot dead in the Atlanta forest opposing Cop City ** two exhibits in Princeton New Jersey, one at the Paul Robeson Cultural Center and the other of Samuel Fasso's work at the Princeton University's Art Museum ** *** #990
with Jailed Anti-War Protesters
Starting in Manhattan's Union Square, a gathering talking about anti-war and pro-democracy Russians, Bill Weinberg, Amina and Walter Daum comment ** criticizing ABLS, authoritarian bootlickers ** police kill Tort, an activist opposing the Atlanta "Cop City" ** researcher talks about responsibility of businesses involved in Saudi mega-projects ** whitewashing Saudi via sports *** #989
Israeli Politician "We Want Nakba"
Nelson Mandela's grandson leads crowd in calls to "Free Palestine" ** Ben-Gvir says display Palestinian flag is incitement to terrorism. ** Israeli Jerusalem politician drapes himself in a flag and calls for another Nakba ** Clinic in Israel refuses to treat bleeding Palestinian ** Incendiary ammunition used in Zaporizhzhya region by Russia ** Brazilian worker says Lula should mobilize workers, but he isn't *** #988
Gaslighting
A Palestinian home demolished in Massafer Yatta ** 15-year-old Adam Ayad killed in Bethlehem ** Levin prepare law to overthrow Israel's Supreme Court ** Svitlana Romanko Ukrainian climate activist speaks on Democracy Now (will speak on 1/8/23 at 10:30 a.m. Eastern for the Ukrainian Socialist Solidarity Campaign) ** featuring Zaki Sarraf from Reprieve as he gives an overview of the Saudi regime ** a disappeared father in Saudi Arabia *** program #987
Whitewash
Featuring sections of the European Saudi Organization for Human Rights annual meeting. It highlighted how the Saudis spent million to whitewash their violations of basic rights, Duaa Dhainy, Elias Geoffroy ** starting with 3 videos o on how Israel destroys Palestinian homes and farm structures ** Netanyahu says all the land belongs exclusively to the Jewish people ** Sarasadat Khademalsharieh plays chess without head covering risking wrath of the Iranian government ** Program #986
Start with the ICBM's
Starting with Daniel Ellsberg arguing that we should cut the defense budget by over 50% and we should start with ICBMs, the missiles ** Featuring Merilyn Moos recalling anti-Nazi German heroes of the working class of whom the history books have neglected ** Stanley Heller talks about awful Rabbi Kahane who is the inspiration for the man who will control Israel's police ** rally for Ukraine in Chicago *** program #985
Bernie, You Let Us Down on Yemen
Starting with explanation that Israel is ready to write off U.S. and European Jews *** You Tube makes a film about Shireen Abu-Akleh "age-restricted" *** Featuring Isaac Evans-Frantz talks about why we need a War Powers resolution to stop U.S. help for the Saudi war against Yemen Dec. 2022 interview *** Bernie withdraws War Powers resolution *** Simon Pirani on why "green hydrogen" is a false energy solution *** also rally in Paris for Ukraine *** program #984
Killing Palestinians
Starting with a heavily armed Israeli killing a Palestinian named Ammar Mefleh ** Israeli touches nerve as he laughs while recalling a '48 massacre ** death of anti-Zionist Jew Shatzi Weisberger ** antisemitism of Minister Louis Farrakhan ** Black Hebrew Israelites surround Barclays in support of Kyrie ** dramatic footage of flash flooding in Saudi Arabia's 2nd largest city ** featuring Kavita Krishnan talking about lack of support in India for the rights of Ukrainians *** program #983
Biden Forces Contract on RR Workers
Featuring an interview with Walter Daum who was one of those who stood with signs in front of the Peoples Forum (NYC) while inside people of the Old Left (or alt-Left) like Chomsky and Prashad and ANSWER advocated "negotiations" rather than solidarity 11/19/22 ** Interview with Nick Wurst of Railroad Workers United about the attempt of Biden to force an inadequate contract down the throats of the railroad workers. ** Moroccan World Cup winner displays Palestinian flag ** program #982
Israelis Tear Down a Palestinian School
In Masafer Yatta on the West Bank a school is demolished ** Israelis disrupt reporter for French TV station because she speaks Arabic ** Four Israelis going to prison because they are refusing to be part of the Israeli army enforcing apartheid ** Huge march in Athens, Greece to mark the 49th anniversary of the attack on the Poly Technic University ** section of interview with Merilyn Moos who will be speaking at 11/28/22 about her book "Anti-Nazi Germans" ** Ukraine Holodomor Remembrance Day **
Anti-Nazi Germans
Featuring interview with Merilyn Moos about her book "Anti-Nazi Germans" about working people in the 1930's and '40's in Germany who took incredible risks to oppose Hitler ** starting with Ukrainian young people singing the Ukrainian anthem. It will delight you. ** Democracy Now segment with an interview with a Russian exile opposed to nuclear power who calls out Europe and Russia for importing Russian uranium ** memorial for Black Panther activist George Edwards in New Haven ** program #980
#FreeAlaa #ProofOfLife
As Biden meets with el-Sisi on 11/11/22 we ask Biden to demand Alaa Abd El-Fattah to be freed * vigil in Hartford, CT says #FreeAlaa *** Mella speaks about Hebron after living there for months. She spoke as part of the Tree of Life Education Fund forum at the Palestine Museum US *** Issa Amro's house is declared a "Closed Military Zone", his house! * Ukrainians liberate Kherson *** Criticism as Ukrainian President Zelensky congrats to Netanyahu *** program #979
Life in Hebron
Featuring speakers at the Tree of Life forum at the Palestine Museum US - Ghoufran Allababiddi introduces Dalia and Sadek who live in Hebron on the West Bank ***starting with news about Syria. The number of Palestinian-Syrian victims of Assad's war is startling * Iranian women without headscarves sing "Iran will be Iran" * fascists attack protesters at Penn State University *** Thankfully the Progressive Caucus letter on Ukraine was annihilated *** #978
Unmasking a Phony Leftist Forum
Featuring Simon Rodriguez unmasking the Sao Paulo Forum, supposedly leftist, actually reactionary * starting with Daniel Ellsberg's reflection on Eisenhower's mega-genocidal nuclear war plan * Iranian rock climber dared to climb with the mandated hijab * on Democracy Now Nobel Peace prize laureate Shirin Abadi on Evin prison in Iran and her surprising view on sanctions * program #976
Not Ukraine, but Gaza
Opening with destruction in the Gaza Strip and Israeli killings in the West Bank *** Kavita Krishnan of India tells about the Left's confusion about Ukraine within the Indian Left *** Putinist propaganda *** Russian exile Ilya Budraitskis talks about forms of resistance to Putin's mobilization * DN! on the report on the sharp drop in numbers of non-human animals * program #975
Russian Against the Mobilization
Featuring Russian Leftist Ila Budraitskis speaking about events in Russia as Putin tries to mobilize 300,000 troops for his failing Ukraine war * Israeli paper reveals that Israel is helping fund Putin's war through the diamond trade * starting with Iranian school students chanting against a Revolutionary Guard * view of Russian consulate in New York City that had been vandalized by red paint * Cooper Hewitt Design museum exhibition "Designing Peace" * Ukraine Institute exhibit "Russian War Crimes" * Marina Ovsyannikova escapes Putin regime house arrest * program #974
Bella Ciao in Iran and Ukraine
Featuring the rise up in Iran, starting with Bella Ciao sung in Farsi, the spark was the murder of Mahsa Amini for showing a bit of her hair *** tribute to historian and activist Norton Mezvinsky by showing some of his last speech at the end of his 42 year career at Central Connecticut State University *** Bella Ciao sung in Ukrainian by two armed soldiers *** program #973
Denouncing Cold-Hearted CT Politicians - Free Palestine
Featuring the sign-waving, chanting, marching and demonstrating for Palestine in Middletown, CT in the wake of the Israeli/U.S. whitewash of the Shireen Abu Akleh murder * part 2 of Dave Zirin's look at brave sports activists * Ukraine news * DN! coverage of Iran rise-up * a pod of whales off Cape-Cod *** program #972
Nobel Prize Winner Talks about Putin's Russia
He was co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2021, but Dmitry Muratov is unable to publish his newspaper in Russia, He spoke at SCSU in Connecticut on 9/9/22 and painted a grim picture *** GreenExpo and PEP climate ideas and petition *** awful treatment of family of Iyad Burnat of Bil'in Occupied Palestine *** featuring sports writer Dave Zirin talking about sports in a time of reaction * program #971
Day of the Disappeared
Omar Alshogre talks about the disappeared in Syria on August 30, the "Day of the Disappeared" *** "routine" injustice in Palestine *** Harvey Wasserman and Arnie Gundersen talk about reckless Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant * conclusion of Denys Pilash talk focusing on the rise of the "Social Movement" *** Remembering Barbara Ehrenreich *** program #970
Nuclear Dangers from Ukraine to Diablo Canyon
Featuring news about the reactors in Ukraine and the awful decision in California to give the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant five more years of "service", Linda Seeley and Daniel Hirsch speak ***starting with Pakistan floods *** grotesque sentence for woman in Saudi Arabia for her social media comments * Israel to free Palestinian "Administrative Detention" prisoner in a month **Denys Pilash speaks about Ukraine in 2014 (part 3) and the fleeing of the president ** program #969
Remembering the Massacre in Syria
8/21/2022 was 9 years after the Ghouta sarin massacre. It was memorialized in various ways * Biden bombs in Syria, but doesn't feed Syrians of al-Rukban * Update on Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh's months-long hunger strike. *** the treatment of a woman pregnant with dying fetus by Louisiana is hideous * Marina Ovsyannikova bravely shows paper with words on it against Putin's war during her trial * More of TSVN interview with Denys Pilash *** program #968
The Children the IDF Killed
Of the 48 killed in the latest Israeli massacre 17 were children. One terrible injury highlighted. Protest in New York City. * Protest upcoming on Wed. 8/17 in Middletown, CT * Bineshi Alibert of the Climate Justice Alliance explains that the coalition thinks the climate bill will hurt more than it helps *** Simon Pirani concludes his talk on Ukraine concentrating on the events of 2014 *** criticizing the violence of the FBI raid against leaders of the APSP *** program #966
One of the Other Casualties, a Five-year-old Girl
A five-year-old Palestinian girl is one of the "other" casualties in Israel's latest Gaza attack *** On Hiroshima Day Promoting Enduring Peace calls for campaign to get Russian troops out of Ukrainian nuclear plants *** disastrous anti-union decision for Alabama miners *** in Hartford protesters want Biden to declare a climate emergency and criticize the Manchin-Biden climate bill *** a company in Connecticut shows it can take care of a 9-acre condo without using a drop of gasoline *** program #965
Biden's Other Visit
Biden visited Egyptian dictator al-Sissi, nothing said about jailed freedom hero Alaa Abd al-Fattah *** Israel destroys Palestinian home inside Israel ('48 Palestine) *** American Jewish family religious service harassed by other Jews in Israel *** criticism of DSA stand calling for no weapons for Ukraine *** more of the talk of Simon Pirani about Ukraine's recent history *** program #964
Don't Use Gasoline for Lawncare
Featuring fair held by climate activists in Bridgeport, CT *** Promoting Enduring Peace campaigns to get governors to stop using gas-powered lawn equipment on state owned lands *** Starting with Palestinian men dancing on a summer's night *** Blasting Biden's fist bump with MBS *** a Brazilian trade unionist named Mancha talks about direct confrontations *** 4-year Liza Dmitrieva killed by a Russian missile in Ukraine *** Simon Pirani talks about Ukraine as a Russian colony *** program #963
Biden Stands up for the Jewish Superiority State
Biden refuses to meet with Shireen Abu Akleh's family while in Palestine/Israel. Palestinians honor her in various ways *** The Forced Birth Crusaders want a 10-year-old rape victim to carry and give birth to the baby *** Paul Hodel reflects on the million strong 1982 anti-nuclear rally in NYC, which he helped organize *** program #962
They Killed Members of His Family
Featuring Omar Alshogre's powerful speech at the U.N. Security Council on June 29, 2022. Alshogre had been jailed by Assad forces and tortured. Family members and a friend were murdered *** Israelis planning to remove 4,000 from Masafer Yatta *** Farcical U.S. "Investigation" of Shireen Abu Akleh's murder *** Ben and Jerry's Company Sues Unilever *** Putin has his soldiers put their artillery next to nuclear power plant *** Left wins in Colombia shocker! ***program #961
Brazilians Learn from Ukrainian Unions
Featuring Herbert Claros de Silva, a leader in a Brazilian union federation of 700,000 workers that broke away from Lula's CUT. He was part of a delegation that went to Ukraine to meet with union members there. *** U.S. appeals court strikes a blow to BDS. Why aren't U.S. union leaders concerned? *** Rally in Hartford to condemn the loathsome Supreme Court decision on abortion *** Program #960
Shireen Abu Akleh Portrait Unveiled
Palestine Museum US unveils portrait of Shireen Abu Akleh *** settler kills Ali Hassan Harb *** continued interview with Barbara Wien back from emergency religious delegation to Ukraine (in late May 2022) in this segment we highlight Russian anti-war action *** Electrify your Life Expo in CT *** program #959
Delegation shown Russian Damage in Ukraine
Featuring an interview with photos by Barbara Wien who is on the faculty of American University (DC) who went on the religious delegation *** Jamal Khashoggi Way made official *** Biden saying nothing about Abu Akleh *** Maryam KamAlmaz about her father Dr. Majd KamAlmaz who was arrested by Assad forces in 2017 *** DN! on hunger strike of Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah *** program #958
Israeli Flag Hatefest in Jerusalem
Israeli extremists wave flags and chant Nazi-like slogans, May 2022 *** Elderly Palestinian woman hit and pepper-sprayed *** Trooper Brian North's Arraignment for Killing Mubarak Soulemane *** fundraiser for Ukraine at Carnegie Hall *** Naila Alabbasi on the arrest in Syria of her sister's entire family (including) six children (part 1) *** program #956
Routine Attacks on Palestinian Mourners
Starting with the attacks as Palestinians try to bury their dead, examples shown Shireen Abu Akleh and Walid Sharif **** Around 100 march and rally in New Haven, CT on May 15, 2022 to mark the Nakba of Palestinians *** Alex Kuzma gives background to Putin's brutal invasion of Ukraine, in particular talking about 2014 *** George W. Bush's mistake about what Russia invaded and his awful joke in 2004 about not finding weapons of mass destruction *** program #954
Tributes to Murdered Reporter Shireen Abu Akleh
The Israeli murder of famous Palestinian reporter Shireeen Abu Akleh and tributes to her memory *** Rally for Palestine on New Haven Green Sunday 5/14 at 3 p.m. *** video emerges of the killing of Nader Rayan in Balata camp *** Minneapolis activists redirect campist rally to show solidarity to Ukraine and Syria *** Mayday in New Haven, march, speech by John Jairo Lugo *** Amazing costumes of Club Carnavalero *** remarks by New Haven representative Porter *** music by EcleKtics *** program #953
Azovstal Steel Mill Holding Out
As of May 6 (2022) Russian troops have still not conquered Ukrainian armed forces in the steel plant in Mariupol *** good news from Harvard about BDS *** toll of Russian bombing of Mariupol theater double what had been estimated *** shocking report with video about Assadist massacre in Syria in 2013 *** music and spoken word in Hartford Climate community event in April *** photos of spring in two New York state areas *** program #952
Israeli Government Helping Fanatics Change Al-Aqsa Status-Quo
Richard Silverstein explains how the Israeli government assists those who are gradually forcing a Jewish presence on the Al Aqsa Compound *** Community event in Hartford getting the word out on climate *** Saudi dissident Ali Al-Ahmed talked about the truce in Yemen and the need for $5oo billion in reparations *** program #951
Actions for Ukraine
Marches/rallies for Ukraine in London and New Haven, Naveen Jaganathan speaks in New Haven *** featuring Denis Pilash speaking to Democracy Now! from Western Ukraine *** Vijay Prashad's own words show the conflict is NOT about NATO *** provocative meme compares Mariupol to Stalingrad *** Israeli troops assault Palestinians in Al Aksa Compound *** a tweet tries to favorably compare Israel and the U.S. Confederacy, more reason to take down the Israeli flag *** stunning news about the killing of M
US Trying to Wash the Saudis Clean
featuring Saudi dissident Al AlAhmed explaining how a top State Department official met and praised Dr. Mohamad Al-Issa, a man who created both the Saudi Terrorism Court and a new legal rationale to execute *** Union members march in London for Ukraine *** part 2 of the march/rally in New Haven for Ukraine (Wael Faraj and Melinda Tuhus speak) *** sadder details about the family of Fatimah al-Masri, the infant who Israel would not permit to get medical treatment *** program #949
Bureaucratic Murder of an Infant
We start with the death of Fatima Al-Masri, denied medical help in Jerusalem by Israeli Apartheid authorities *** march in New Haven, CT in solidarity with Ukraine, Alex Kuzma spoke *** wondering again why the US won't help Syrians in Al Rukban just 30 miles from the US base in Syria *** featuring Saudi dissident Ali AlAhmed speaking about the execution on 3/12/22 of 81 people by the Saudi regime *** Stanley Heller is the host*** program #948
Gov. Lamont and Pres. Maric Hunt for Business in Apartheid-Land
Starting with a section "Russians Against Putin's Invasion", the surprising number of Russians who have bravely demonstrated or spoke out in Russia against Putin aggression *** rally at UConn in Storrs on 2/21/22 against the trip to Apartheid Israel by Governor Lamont of CT and Radenka Maric, the President of the University of Connecticut *** rally in Hartford on 2/24 at the Old State House and at UConn Hartford for the same reasons *** program #942
Understanding Ukraine
Starting with bits of good news about Syria especially what Palestinians are doing for Syrians *** Featuring interview with Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov on 2/14/22 speaking about the present crisis and talking about languages used in Ukraine. He was interviewed by John Reimann of the OaklandSocialist.com *** Biden's decision to take $3.5 billion of Afghan money and give it to Americans *** Also part 2 of devastating Amnesty International video about Israeli apartheid *** program #941
A Message for Eversource, Travelers and UCONN
Well attended and entertaining march for the climate staged in Hartford, CT on Feb. 8 by a score of activist groups (stops at Eversource, Travelers Insurance, UCONN, DEEP and the Capitol *** Near 500 sign petition demanding justice for Omar Abdalmajeed As'ad *** Large march protests Israeli assassination of 3 Palestinians *** Canadian anti-mask "truckers" with white nationalist credentials *** new idea to fight greenhouse emissions on campus ***# 940
Stunning Amnesty Report on Israeli Apartheid
Featuring part of a video produced by Amnesty International that accompanies their finding that Israel is practicing the international crime of apartheid *** starting with a MECC protest in Waterbury, CT in front of the office of CT Congresswoman Jahana Hayes over her lack of interest in the killing of Palestinian-American Omar Abdalmajeed As'ad *** solidarity rally in London for the people of Ukraine includes remarks by member of parliament Nadia Whittome ***# 939
Put UN Peacekeepers on Ukraine Borders
Memes tell the recent history of the seeds of the conflict and some have suggestions on how to keep the peace with justice *** Democracy Now segment about the destruction of the Salhiyeh family home by Israelis in Jerusalem *** interview with Brian Hioe of Taiwan and NewBloomMag.net about Taiwan, China, the Uyghurs and the Left *** program #938
The MBS-Biden-UAE War Against Yemenis
Brutal coalition response to drone hit against UAE *** Syria refugees in winter *** NYT reveals charges true US did recklessly bomb Syrian dam *** Activist Haj Suleiman Hathleen died in Israeli hit and run *** No excuse yet for death of 80-year-old Palestinian at Israeli hands *** eviction of Salhiye family in the dead of night *** No war in Ukraine!! *** Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh talks about the Biodiversity Institute in Bethlehem and its many projects *** program #937
Cruel Death of Omar As'ad
Cruel killing of 80-year-old Palestinian-American by Israeli soldiers. Just left tied up in construction site. Sign the petition calling for an INTERNATIONAL investigation *** a Palestinian is run over by truck and abandoned *** 2 Israeli commanders shot by "friendly-fire" *** No Russian invasion of Ukraine, No NATO involvement, neutrality for Ukraine *** nuclear power isn't carbon free and it's very dangerous, Helen Caldicott, Harvey Wasserman *** Afghanistan is hungry *** climate bad news *** the Climate Countdown Clock of Promoting Enduring Peace *** 2 upcoming events *** program #936
Harry Potter Actor Defamed as "anti-semite"
Emma Watson falsely accused by former Israeli Ambassador *** Don't Look Up and climate activists *** featuring interview with Mark Arons, lawyer for the family of Mubarak Soulemane, killed 1/15/2020 by a state trooper in CT *** crypto and fascism article *** Mazin Qumsiyeh online 1/11 at 7 *** Climate Change and [Worsening] Public Health Sun. 1/15 *** South Africans on strike against firm owned by Israeli with connection to Israeli Apartheid *** program 935
Sudan Struggles
featuring work done to support the democratic struggles in Sudan including a letter from the AFT president*** rally in Sudan *** program starts with Lightscape at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden *** the death of Archbishop Tutu and his support for Palestinians *** Stop Solitary CT panel *** Guardian reveals Saudi murderers of Khashoggi getting royal treatment *** crypto, the newest capitalist speculation toy *** DN! video and Heller's comment calling for police not to have guns *** program #934
Good Morning Chile
Celebrating the victory of the Left in the Chilean presidential election *** massive crowds in Sudan protest the military coup *** Stanley Heller explains exactly what is being boycotted in the Hyundai boycott *** conclusion of Dr. Emmaia Gelman's talk about the ADL and Zionism *** Shelly Altman of the Jewish Voice for Peace New Haven talks about how JVP is opposing the ADL's "Deadly Exchange" *** CTE found in ex-football player who killed 6 *** ultra-rightist Ben-Gvir calls for assassinations inside Israel to revenge West Bank attacks https://youtu.be/2lEBPI0P414
Israeli Soldiers Show Their Manhood
Israeli soldiers invade a house and force children into a lineup *** starting with news that 9 million are at risk of starvation in Afghanistan *** a plea from Syrians in al-Rukban *** featuring Emmaia Gelman's talk about the ADL. Dr. Gelman's thesis was about the Anti-Defamation League. You might be surprised about the ADL's class and governmental links *** a happy look back at the Christmas lights in Dykers Heights *** program #932
The U.S. Congress is a Disgrace
Mohammed el-Kurd speaks at the UN on Nov. 29 *** Only a dozen in Congress willing to criticize Israel for branding human rights groups "terrorists" *** Sen. Chris Murphy and Dems approve further war against Yemen by approving "defensive" weapons for Saudis ***- animation shows how debt problem of US citizens could be solved *** third section of Christopher Sebastian's Shafer Lecture "The Revolution will be Plant Based" where he talks about meat as part of the image of "white" society *** program #931
The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Featuring the first part of the 2021 Shafer Lecture (Promoting Enduring Peace) by Christopher Sebastian. He talks about humanity's age old feelings toward non-human animals and its ties to racism ***Climate news including Biden-Haaland selling of oil leases for 80 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico *** petition calling for investigations of the gun company Ruger *** housing demolitions in Palestine by the Civil Administration *** the boycott of Hyundai Heavy Industries *#929
Judge Sees "No Imminent Danger"
Featuring interview with Melinda Tuhus about how a court in Delaware sees no imminent danger in growing climate collapse *** starting with good news, ambulances enter Gaza Strip, new playground built by Middle East Children's Alliance *** satire of COP26 *** ClimateActionTrancker.org study says we're on course for disastrous 2.4 to 2.7 degree Celsius world temp rise *** news about Remington Woods *** program #928
Animal Liberation and Black Liberation
featuring full interview with Christopher Sebastian who will give the Shafer Lecture for Promoting Enduring Peace at 2 Eastern on Nov. 20, 2021 *** Haaretz reveals fakery around "terrorist" label for Palestinian rights groups *** Hyundai destruction vehicles take down Palestinian homes *** update on Ruger *** Gideon Levy on Israeli police lies *** looking back at police killing of a woman in Missouri in 2020 *** selections from Democracy Now! this week *** program #927
Sudan Resists the Coup
Massive protests in Sudan, a thousand march in Washington, DC *** panel on Sudan (10/30/21) featuring Muzan Alneel and Rabab Elnaiem *** Ansar Allah (the Houthis) in Yemen poised to surround Marib city*** Biden wants to sell Saudis more weapons ****13 year old Mohammad Da'adas shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank **** more Palestinian homes demolished *** Christopher Shafer to deliver the 2021 Shafer Lecture for PEP *** Interview with Martha Klein about the 10/30/21 rally in Hartford on Lamont's record of approving all fracked gas projects (Stanley Heller, interviewer) *** program #926
The Tough Ones Protest in the Rain
Complete interview with Martha Klein, lead of CT Sierra Club "Beyond Gas" campaign about the Oct. 30 rally in Hartford. Protest against Lamont Administration approval of gas projects in CT. Focus on environmental racism. Protests like these slowed the Killingly approval project which appears to have lead to its cancellation. #925
Witch Hunt
Featuring our interview with Tony Greenstein about the very large number of expulsions from the Labour Party over bogus charges of anti-Semitism. Tony Greenstein himself was the first to be expelled. *** Also featuring speakers at an event in New Haven held by Progressives Opposed to Medical Assisted Suicide (Anita Cameron, Elaine Kolb, Paula Panzarella) *** starting with TSVN comment about the $1 billion gift from our taxes to the Israeli government *** notice that Oct 13, 2021 the Bridgeport Zoning Board will rule on whether to destroy Remington Woods (see PreserveRemingtonWoods.com ) *** concluding with the opening of "FridgeHaven", a project of people feeding people via public refrigerators. *** program #922
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Fed Up
starting with good news about the British Labour Party's rank-and-file and Palestine *** artwork reflects agony of Syrians *** CT Supreme Court decision on Killingly fracked gas plant *** featuring stills and more video about the Sept 18, 2021 Hartford "town hall" against environmental racism Alycia Jenkins, Sara Bronin, Alex Rodriquez *** Bill McKibben from his "What's Still Possible" talk *** Obama's project wrecks Women's Garden and 1,000 trees in Chicago's Jackson Park *** about the event honoring the late Dr. Bernard Lown 1985 Gandhi Peace Award winner ***
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A New War Alliance
starting with David Vine on Biden's nuclear alliance with Australia and Britain *** Stanley Heller's claim that 1/4 of US Jews are anti-Zionists *** Congress sends another billion to Israel *** speakers at the 9/18/21 rally against Environmental Racism in Hartford, CT *** diplomat quits his post over Biden's awful Haiti policy *** an anti-vaxxer who changed his mind **
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Palestinians Turn to the Grassroots
Featuring Mariam Barghouti explaining how Palestinians under occupation are turning to the community after so many have failed them [at the August RPM.world event ] *** starting with the final notice about the rally against Environmental Racism that will take place at 2 p.m. at the Performance Pavilion in Bushnell Park in Hartford, CT on Sat. 9/18 *** the UN drives EMPTY trucks to al Rukban, Syria *** Israeli journalist Gideon Levy on the prisoners who escaped an Israeli prison [4 were captured] *** an Israeli writer complains that the Bennett government didn't try to help the U.S. by taking in ANY refugees from Afghanistan *** program #919
Palestinian Had been Completely Accepted in Syria
a 9/11/21 rumination asks why no US presidents have suffered for their alliances with the mujahedeen and/or the Pakistani military that gave the world the Taliban *** 1,000 mature tree being torn down for Obama vanity project *** FEATURING Syrian-born Palestinian Nidal Betare's talk for RPM about how Palestinians in Syria were accepted into Syrian society (long before the Assads) *** HRW report reveal Egyptian "shoot-out" were really executions *** George Takei schools the Insurrectionist Right on fascism *** program #918
Long History of Solidarity between Syrians and Palestinians
Featuring Joseph Daher speaking about how Palestinians and Syrians helped each others struggles going back to the early 1900's *** starting with underplayed news that the drone attack in Kabul that was billed as stopping a terrorist actually destroyed a family including 7 children *** Israeli settler kidnap and torture a Palestinian teenager (mid-August 2021) *** Sat. September 18 in-person rally in climate *** Don't let Dupont spinoff tear down Remington Woods *** Sept, 17, 2011, ten years ago, the start of Occupy Wall St., a TSVN viral video *** program #917
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They Don't Know What They're Doing
Afghanistan disaster explained as arrogance and ignorance of the "experts" in government and military *** from Democracy Now Sarah Chayes former advisor to U.S. Chief of Staff *** protests in support of Afghans in Chicago and Oakland *** killing of 15-year-old Imad Khaled Saleh Hashash by IDF *** arrest of Fadi Quran and 29 by the Palestinian Authority *** pictures of "Doublecheck" 20 years after 9/11 *** program #916
Another 11 Palestinians Made Homeless
featuring Israeli destruction of a Palestinian house, that was home to 11 people *** Shadi Shurafi's body was returned, now arrest the Israeli soldiers who killed him *** #EndNecroKidnapping *** 2001, when the U.S. refused a Taliban surrender *** Minnesota Line 3 protest *** NYC Botanical Garden in August *** program #915
Understanding What Happened in Cuba on 7/11
featuring two Cuban-Americans discussing the unprecedented demonstrations in Cuba on 7/11/2021 *** starting with a comment about the rout of the soldiers of the government the US forced on Afghanistan *** *** Samuel Farber and Odette Casamayor-Cisneros speak about what happened in Cuba as demonstrations erupted in 60 cities and towns *** FANG blocks a Ratheon entrance *** program #914
August a Month of Action
Mohammad AlAlmi in life, shot dead by IDF, Palestinian man shot dead at AlAlmi's funeral July 29, 2021 *** DCIP In Defense of Children Palestine office raided after it reported on AlAlmi's killing *** DCIP video on May killing of a young man *** two eat Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream to celebrate B&J defiance of Israeli apartheid government *** interview with activist Lela Florel on why people should send email to Bridgeport CT zoning officials, Save Remington Woods, 400 acres of woods Dupont spinoff want to develop Deadline August 9, 2021 *** program #913
Israel kills child
Mohammad AlAlmi, killed by IDF at age 12 sitting in parents car *** Mohammad Tamimi shot to death by a Ruger *** Program begins with Human Rights Watch video about the violence in May 2021 *** news of the Ben and Jerrys war (or ice cream meltdown) if you prefer *** journalist from India writes about being a victim of Israeli Pegasus spyware *** Saudi site criticizes Senator Richard Blumenthal *** Glen Ford clip speaking in Connecticut in 2010 *** 350 of how a pro-climate Federal Reserve banker would be a big help *** Duterte regime's last killing *** program #912
Ice Cream Meltdown
Hysterical Israeli attack on Ben and Jerrys *** interview with Wafic Faour of "Vermonters for Justice in Palestine" that worked for a decade on B&J and Apartheid Israel *** music from "Arts of Palestinian Resistance"***program #mocracy Now striking mine workers in Alabama *** concluding with Marc Nelson speaking about the disappearance of Mazen Al Hamada in Assad run Syria. Marc shows some of his many drawings of his friend ***program #911
Another Desperate Act
starting with the protest at Congresswoman DeLauro's office in New Haven, CT #SaveSilwan *** Israeli government cruely forbidding Palestinian mother from attending her daughter's funeral *** Signs held at Dunkin Donut Stadium in Hartford over their hosting of baseball game with Israeli national team *** In part 3 of the interview Nick Georges talks about an action at Elbit, an Israeli weapons maker with plants in the Britain *** from 350 climate change and COVID *** idea on what to read when trying to figure out the thousands in the streets in Cuba *** Marc Nelson's drawings illustrate Assad/Putin killings in Syria *** In remarking on the death of Frederic Rzewski we play the Sergio Ortega and Quilapaun song "The People United will Never Be Defeated" *** program #910
Israel Justice
No trial, no verdict, yet the family home is blown up by Israeli forces *** Israel refuses to return body of Palestinian slain by their soldiers *** Nick Georges on how his trip to Palestine spurred him to climb the 300' crane in London *** vigil in West Haven CT for Mubarak Soulemane 17 months after he was killed by a State Trooper *** program #909
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PA Thugs Beat Him to Death
Featuring: Nizar Banat arrested by the Palestinian Authority and found beaten to death, thousands protest *** starting with the long long Israeli mistreatment of the Burnat family in Bil'in because of their leadership of popular resistance #FreeTheBurnatBrothers *** from Democracy Now striking mine workers in Alabama *** concluding with Marc Nelson speaking about the disappearance of Mazen Al Hamada in Assad run Syria. Marc shows some of his many drawings of his friend ***program #907
Where is Mazen?
Europe and the US. In 2020 he mysteriously returned to Syria and has not been heard of again (part 1) *** starting with heroic Nick Georges who climbed to the top of a crane in London to display the Palestinian flag *** video if Israeli prison guard abuse, putting Palestinians into piles and beating them *** 6/16/20 fascist Israelis flag dance in Jerusalem *** Mohammad al-Titi killed by Ruger this May *** Original poem about Palestine read by young woman in Waterbury, CT *** Jun 27 at 7 p.m. Vigil for Mubarak Soulemane in West Haven *** activist challenges CT Gov. Lamont about his non-interference in process to add another fracked gas plant in Killingly *** program #906
March in Stamford, CT **** vigil and rally in Waterbury, CT *** Amnesty Intl report on China's horrific treatment of Uighurs ***Michael Karadjis explains how the key thing missing with the so-called "anti-imperialists" is any opposition to capitalism *** program #905
Israeli Cops Attack Marathon
starting with a violent dispersal of a marathon in Jerusalem *** rally for Palestine in Washington, DC *** Samaya Awad on how the tide is turning for Palestinians *** Oakland activists stop Israeli ship *** Mandela's grandson marches *** Linda Quiquivix, geographer and researcher, talks about the basic mistake of the so-called "anti-imperialists" *** We remember the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty and Stanley Heller tries to explain why no U.S. president will back the U.S. sailors who survived the attack *** program #904
Free Palestine
starting with family photos of the Hadidis, a Palestinian family destroyed by the IDF *** Rallies and marches for Palestine in Hartford, CT, New Haven, Manchester, CT and South Bend, Indiana in May 2021 *** 600 Israelis sign letter condemning the apartheid system under which they live *** program #903
Apartheid
featuring B'Tselem leader, an Israeli Jews, who carefully explains how Israel is an Apartheid State - starting with viral video of 10 year old girl in Gaza - Stanley Heller comments on the excuses of the IDF for bombing a large building housing AP and other international media *** march for Palestine in Hartford, CT *** Rally coming up June 2 in support of bill to ban solitary confinement in CT ***program #902
The assassin of Slim in Lebanon was trying to do more than kill one man, interview with Nidal Betare *** Israeli settlers set fields on fire *** Palestinian killed at 16 *** Mayday march for immigrants in New Haven, CT 5/.1/21 *** interview with Barbara Fair answering cost objections to SB 1059 which would end solitary confinement *** program #900
UNH Fired Workers
HRW classifies Israeli rule "apartheid" *** cleaning workers fired at University of New Haven protest *** DN! on professors using MOVE child's bones as an exhibit *** nuclear plant shuts permanently *** NY Botanical Garden reopens *** program #899
Silence
Settler attacks Rabbi Ascherman north of Ramallah *** Israeli cops attack Jewish Anti-Zionist member of the Israeli parliament *** 105 Palestinians injured during Jewish white nationalist riot in Jerusalem *** Rally against police violence in Hartford, interview with sister of Mubarak Soulemane and mother of Steven Barrier *** April 18 march against police violence in New Haven organized by DSA *** program #898
Two police stop Lieutenant Caron Nazario in Virginia and draw guns on him and pepper spray him *** interview with Justin Famer who is organizing the 4/18/21 rally against police violence in New Haven *** interview with Susan Bramhall about the upcoming 4/24 panel about courageous Palestinian and Jewish women *** activists walk to four New Haven banks to call on them to stop financing the "Line 3" pipeline that will bring tar sands down from Canada *** Stanley Heller talks about a "trick" the legislature is considering, CT SB Bill #882 which would let fossil fuel plants be built without limit as long as the electricity was sound out of Connecticut ***program #987
We feature rally on 4/2/21 in Hartford calling for end of solitary *** Starting with signs for Virtual Rally of "No Rugers to Israel" coalition *** Mark Colville sentenced to 21 months in prison for damaging model of sub at Georgia base *** Mother of Steven Barrier and her attorney explain why they are suing Stamford, CT due to the death of Steven in police custody *** program #896
Featuring two speakers at a panel highly critical of present day Israel, Richard Silverstein and Miri Weingarten *** Starting with a rally in support of a bill in CT's Judiciary Committee that would effectively end solitary confinement ***Laeila Al Shami looks at Syria 10 years after the start of the revolution *** Report on Alexi Navalny whom the Kremlin may be attempting to kill while he is in prison *** Events coming up this April 2021 - program #895
No Ruger Guns 2 Israel
coalition forms to stop Ruger from sending its sniper rifles to Israel *** Ultra-right in Israel advances in election *** racist vandalism inside Israel *** Naftali Bennett unwittingly upends a Zionist talking point *** the No Line3 fight in Minnesota and a support rally in New Haven *** Russians bomb hospital *** Panel on April 17 to condemn phony anti-imperialists *** Avraham Burg says Israeli can't be both Jewish and democratic *** program #894
Ansar Allah Arson
Ansar Allah in Yemen apparently involved in massacre of Ethiopian immiagrants -*** Israeli settlers burn Palestinian cars *** Israeli election choice of Zionist right, hard right and ultra-right *** shooting to death of Palestinian Imam Atef Yousef Hanaysha *** While Palestinian hospitals overfilled Israelis throw away hundreds of doses of vaccine *** Egypt crowd protests killing of shopkeeper *** two videos on Syria, one about prisons, the other Rukban *** Democracy Now coverage of the resistance in Burma *** program #893
Our newest program starts with news that US warships continue to block ships from unloading fuel to #Yemen. Ambulances r desperate for fuel ***Program #981B
https://youtu.be/MuzebVDNB5U @DSA_Intl_Comm #YemenCantWait
Stop Yemen Blockade
US ships preventing 10 ships from delivering fuel to Yemen, photos/video Ahmad Algohbary *** Car Caravan calls on CT @GovNedLamont saying, "Cancel" fracked gas power plant *** Burma against the coup *** supporting organizing Amazon workers in Alabama *** ICC investigates Israel, Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnik *** program #891
The program starts with a defense of comedian Michael Che's joke about Israel. It exposes Netanyahu's medical apartheid *** Indian's express solidarity with continuing strike by farmers in India *** more of the DSA panel on Palestine with Sumaya Awad, Marc Lamont Hill, Omar Barghouti and Ajamou Amiri Dillahunt *** Mike Alewitz painting of W.E.B. Dubois *** comment about warfare in Syria and short video of two Syrian boys at play *** program #890
Gov. Abbott of Texas' efforts to claim power disaster result of wind turbines *** car caravan in CT 2/27 to oppose Killingly power plant *** Huge rally in Haiti *** featuring more of the DSA panel on Palestine and BDS *** panel on farmer struggles in India and US *** DN! on India *** program #889
Biodiversity Farming
Featuring Olivia Katbi Smith, Omar Barghouti, & Marc Lamont Hill, speaking at a Democratic Socialists of America forum on Palestine *** Burma *** India *** glacier collapse *** climate activists call for calls to CT Energy Committee to suspend all fossil fuel plant construction Call 860240-0430 *** program #888
Defending Saudi Arabia
Featuring Shireen Al Adeimi speaking on Democracy Now. She wonders if President Biden is really stopping U.S. help for the Saudi war on Yemen *** program open with news that the Israeli government destroyed 10,000 trees on Palestinian land in a reaction to an "agricultural invasion" *** speakers at the webinar "Climate, Covid-19 and Capitalism: Ben Martin and Gregg Gonsalves.*** court rules on Alexi Navalny in Russia on the charge of not reporting to Moscow officials even though he had been in a coma from poisoning *** ending with Arnold Schwarzenegger getting a vaccine shot *** program #887
Voices against War on Yemen
Speakers at protest over Yemen war, Yanis Varoufakis, Ahmed al-Babati and Cornel West *** Navalny's surprise for Putin *** massive farmer's strike in India *** Mohga Kamal-Yanni on the alternative to the incredibly slow rollout of vaccine *** program #886
Inauguration
Petition campaign to appeal to the judge who will sentence nuclear resister Mark Colville on 2/19/21 *** trailer for the film about Iranian lawyer Nasarin Soutudeh *** CT @govnedlamont says he's against the Killingly fracked gas plant but he won't stop it *** the campaign in CT for renters to have the right to have a lawyer with them (paid by the state) during an eviction process "The Right to Counsel" *** on Inauguration day Unidad Latina en Accion holds a noisy colorful rally for immigration rights in New Haven *** program #885
Spy Pollard Honored - Whistleblower Vanunu Shunned - The Struggle
Jonathan Pollard comes to Israel and is greeted by Netanyahu *** Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu still forbidden to leave Israel *** starting with a fire that destroyed another refugee camp *** sentence near for Issa Amro *** Saudi feminist given near six years in prison *** hunger strike continues for Dr. Qathani *** from Democracy Now - Why Not have a People's Vaccine? *** program #882
Stirring Conclusion to Dr. Sahloul's Gandhi Peace Award Speech
Starting with the 2nd part of Dr. Sahloul's Gandhi Peace Award acceptance speech *** photos of Syrian girl in Idlib amid flooded camp *** What the U.S. did by agreeing to recognize Morocco conquest *** shield used by counter protesters in Minnesota ***program #881
The Struggle - Award to Dr. Sahloul of MedGlobal
Starting with an action by Sunrise at sunrise to convince CT Gov Lamont to cancel the Killingly fracked gas plant *** Linda Sarsour introduced Dr. Sahloul *** first part of Dr. Sahloul's GPA address. ***Program #880
The Struggle Mayson Almisri Speaks at Gandhi Peace Award Ceremony
starting with news that a Ruger rifle shot the bullet that killede Ali Abu Alia on the West Bank *** James van Pet and Orrlando von Einsiedel introduce GPA 2020 winner Mayson Almisri *** Almisri's speech *** program #879
Music and Film at the Gandhi Peace Award 2020
We continue with our coverage of the award ceremony that gave the Gandi Peace Awarde to Mayson Almisri and Dr. Zaher Sahloul. The program begins with Adeebah Alnemar speaking about her artwork, then Dylan Connor sings his "If Only You'd Listen". Wafsi Massarani sings two powerful songs, then film director Orlando von Einsiedel talks about his film "The White Helmets" and introduces Mayson Almisri. *** program #878
TRIBUTE FROM ARTISTS TO GPA 2020 HONOREES
First section of the Gandhi Peace Award ceremony for 2020. The award was shared by Mayson Almisri and Dr. Zaher Sahloul. The ceremony was online and the first part was used to show artworks about Syria from 4 artists, Marc Nelson, Molly Crabapple, Adeebah Alnemar and Akram Swedaan *** the final section of the interview with Ubai Adoni concentrating on Covid in the Israeli prison in which he was locked up *** program #877
Persecuted
On the Israeli military court "trial" of Ubai Aboudi, Palestinian and Palestinian-American. After months in prison called "Administrative Detention", he was given a trial. *** program #876