By Ezra Nawi - July 01, 2009

My name is Ezra Nawi. I am a Jewish citizen of Israel...I will be sentenced on the first of July after being found guilty of assaulting two police officers in 2007 while struggling against the demolition of a Palestinian house in Um El Hir, located in the southern part of the West Bank...Of course the policemen who accused me of assaulting them are lying. Indeed, lying has become common within the Israeli police force, military and among the Jewish settlers.

By Jessica Yee - June 25th, 2009

I am Native. And I’m pro-choice. Many people seem to think this is an oxymoron – but to me, it makes perfect sense. I have unraveled much of the oppression I was forced to swallow and internalize over the years, which obstructed my ability to wholly see that concepts of “choice” and having “options” in our sexual and reproductive lives are really not new things at all...First and second wave feminism did not “give” my people reproductive rights; in fact those of us in Native communities had them a long time ago.

By APOC-Philly - June 8th, 2009

500 years of colonization and the continuous refusal to acknowledge our fundamental human rights do not produce peaceful results...I am on the side of my community who is on the side of the land - of Mother Earth. As women we are titleholders and caretakers of the land. And I know very well that the border should not be there.

By Professor William Robinson, University of California-Santa Barbara - June 08, 2009

What is going on here is very clear: I am simply the latest victim in the campaign by the Israel lobby and its backers to harass and attack and silence critics of Israeli state conduct, including Israel's blatant disregard for international law, its illegal occupation, its human rights violations, its war crimes, its ethnic cleansing, and its apartheid system...The persecution I am experiencing is part of a larger...pattern throughout the United states and Canada of MaCarthyist repression...against faculty who dare bring up for debate Israeli policies, much less those who would come out in support of Palestinian rights.

By KENNETH HARTMAN - May 25, 2009

Most prisoners are uneducated, riddled with unresolved traumas and ill-treated mental health problems, drug and alcohol addictions, and self-esteem issues that are beyond profound, bordering on the pathological far too often. The vast majority has never received competent health care, mental health care, drug treatment, education or even an opportunity to look at themselves as human. Were any of these far less draconian interventions even tried...no doubt many...would be leading productive lives.

By Peter Gelderloos - May 20, 2009

We "anarchist extremists" make the top of the list for Virginia's domestic terrorism threats, well above white supremacist groups that have actually killed people. Polluting factories, weapons companies, negligent employers, the nuclear power plant, the prison guards union—none of these even make the list, although they too are responsible for death counts infinitely higher than the state's meek anarchists, who content themselves with writing, protesting, organizing social centers, distributing free food, and perhaps occasionally sabotaging property of corporate and governmental targets.

WHEREAS the following regions have been devastated by whitewash floods, bombarded by hatred, destabilised by embargoes on compassion, and closed for inter-relation by orders of previous administrations:

By Hernando Calvo Ospina - April 23-29, 2009

Air France Flight 438, from Paris, was to land at Mexico City at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 18. Five hours before landing, the captain's voice announced that U.S. authorities had prohibited the plane from flying over U.S. territory. The explanation: among the passengers aboard was a person who was not welcome in the United States for reasons of national security.

By Howard Lisnoff - April 19, 2009

Florida is a haven for developers that once built huge developments on anything that did not move. Close to the sea, in some cases, movement may come more quickly than some could have ever imagined because of global warming. There was absolutely no consideration of the impact that sprawl would have on the environment or what would ever happen if the mortgage market dried up.

By Dahr Jamail - April 18, 2009

Having recently returned from Iraq, I experienced living in Baghdad where people were dying violent deaths on a daily basis. Nearly every day of the month I spent there saw a car bomb attack somewhere in the capital city. Nearly every day the so-called Green Zone was mortared. Every day there were kidnappings. On good days there were four hours of electricity on the national grid, in a country now into its seventh year of being occupied by the U.S. military, and where there are now over 200,000 private contractors.

At the G20 Meltdown in the early afternoon and Climate Camp in the evening, I saw some unbelievable brutality.

I was an active participant in the March 15th demonstration in Montreal that marked the International Day Against Police Brutality. I wrote this statement after reading the communique issued by the organizing body of the demonstration, Collective Opposed to Police Brutality (COBP) Montreal. The communique issued to the media is copied below this statement. I have chosen to re-post their communique along with my statement because I think it's important for those of us who choose to participate in these demonstrations to be aware of the motives of the organizers and not have their voice as the only explanation for the actions that occurred. The following statement is representative of only my personal feelings and does not necessarily represent others who chose to act outside the confines of legality that day.

The accusation by various German mass media and mainstream politicians against me of being “anti-Semitic” for the reason that I spoke out against war crimes and oppression of the Palestinians by the Israeli government and army and supported the BDS campaign hit me very hard. For forty years now I am a socialist and internationalist, fighting hand in hand with so many people for social justice, peace, radical democracy, sustainable development and all forms of racism.

Kidnapped one afternoon (30 August 2008), one night (30-31 August) and one morning (31 August) inside the Tokyo airport on request of the Italian Embassy ["government"] in Tokyo. Obliged to pay a ransom (with “regular” receipts) for leaving the Tokyo airport.

By Dr. Haidar Eid - January 22, 2009

"Where can I bring him a father from? Where can I bring him a mother from? You tell me!"...These are the desperate words of Subhi Samouni to Al Jazeera's Gaza correspondent. Subhi lost 17 members of his immediate family, including the parents of his 7-year old grandson. Shockingly...corpses of the Samouni family are still being retrieved from under the rubble...The Israeli Occupation Forces locked 120 members of the family in one house for 12 hours before they shelled it.