By Yifat Susskind - July 29, 2010

In its bid to maintain its occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, the Israeli government has launched a new offensive, this one against its own citizens. A bill that is currently before the Knesset would allow Israelis who support boycotts against Israel to be sued for damages. The bill is part of a government backlash against a small but growing number of Israelis who have taken up the tactic of boycott, sanctions and divestment (BDS) to bring about an end to their government’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

By DTES Power of Women Group

Over one hundred [Downtown Eastside] residents and concerned people across Vancouver gathered for an emergency rally to denounce police violence. This was in direct response to the recent controversy surrounding a [Vancouver Police] officer’s physical assault of a 26-year old woman with cerebral palsy in the Downtown Eastside...Shortly after the protest...the VPD announced that the police officer responsible was taken off the DTES beat and reassigned.

July 18, 2010 - Znet

The basic conflict can be understood in very conventional terms of people enduring and trying to resist an occupation...I think Israel is behaving like most occupying powers behave...It wasn’t easy to get the French out of Algeria, it wasn’t easy to get the Russians out of Afghanistan, it wasn’t easy to get the Americans out of Vietnam...[T]he fundamental fact is that the Palestinians are not only deprived of their basic human rights but they’re slowly, inexorably, being dispossessed of their homeland by the Israeli juggernaut.

By Jesse Rosenfeld - July 22, 2010

...[T]hose who joined the independently organized Alternative Media Centre -- a collective of independent, freelance, and critical journalists who committed to sharing resources and working together to capture the story from the front-lines -- were systematically targeted. More than 10 AMC journalists, all with visible and clearly labeled press passes, were picked off the streets, beaten, and jailed while reporting.

By Tania Kepler - Sunday, 04 July 2010

Israel has initiated strong legislative measures to combat the growing momentum in support of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli policies. The Land of Israel lobby...recently promulgated the “Prohibition on Instituting a Boycott Bill” which, if passed, will criminalize any call for an economic or academic boycott of Israel, and Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar has said that the government will begin taking action against academics joining the call for boycott.

By Krystalline Kraus - July 23, 2010

Jeremy Hinzman has won the right to appeal his deportation order, setting the stage for a new immigration review process for all those American soldiers who came to Canada as conscientious objectors.

Wednesday, July 21, 2010, Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories – The refugee rights and migrant justice organization No One Is Illegal is organizing a nation-wide day of protest in five cities against Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Jason Kenney...“Jason Kenney is routinely called the Minister of Censorship and Deportation because of his record as one of the most repressive immigration ministers in Canadian history.”

In 2007, veteran journalist Michael Richardson began writing a series of articles for OpEdNews.com about Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa, who are two Black Panther political prisoners known as the Omaha Two. Richardson argues that they were framed for the 1970 murder of a policeman as part of the FBI’s notorious counterintelligence program, dubbed “COINTELPRO.”

By Krystalline Kraus - July 20, 2010

300 people sitting on the lawn listening to music speaks nothing of the potential Toronto has to mobilize. Actually, the event made it look...like Toronto shrugged off the G20 abuses.

One of many problems under siege.

By Toban Black - July 18, 2010

London [Ontario] activists have prepared this local version of the Toronto statement about police tactics at the recent G20 summit. We believe it is important for Londoners to present a unified voice to demand the civil liberties that were attacked in Toronto...“The reports of those released from detention reveal a pervasive pattern of sexual, gender, trans, homophobic and racist harassment and sexual violence from police.”

By KRYSTALLINE KRAUS - JULY 14, 2010

In a society where cameras and instant access to the Internet are changing the way we all view and record demonstrations, both the police and protesters want to harness the power of the public to bear witness to public events.

July 14, 2010 - Toronto Community Mobilization Network

After already wasting $1 billion, it seems the Police have even more money to throw at setting up special investigation teams, hosting expensive press conferences and going after a few protesters, all the while failing to investigate the real crimes people face.

July 16, 2010 - Canada Palestine Association

On May 24, 2010...the Canada Palestine Association (CPA) issued our call for a total boycott of Mountain Equipment Coop (MEC), and since then, supporters have written MEC informing them of their decision to no longer shop there. In response MEC management not only defended their support for Israeli Apartheid, they also defended Israel and its institutions...The Canada Palestine Association...calls upon...all those who support Palestinian human rights in Vancouver and Canada to focus their efforts on imposing a general boycott on Mountain Equipment Coop (MEC).

More than ever our freedoms are threatened.