“Over the new year 2009-2010, an international group of 1500 men and women from 42 nations went to Egypt to join a Freedom March to Gaza. They did this to protest the current blockade of Gaza. To protest the fact that the people of Gaza live in a virtual prison.
To protest the fact that a year after the terror attack by Israeli armed forces destroyed most of their homes, hospitals, schools, and other public buildings, they have no possibility to rebuild because their borders are closed. The would be Freedom Marchers wanted to peacefully draw attention to the predicament of the Palestinian population of Gaza. The Egyptian government, (funded to the tune of $2.1 billion a year, by us, the US tax payers), would not allow the marchers to approach Gaza. How lame is that? And how predictable! I live in the USA and during this time Dec 25th 2009-Jan3rd 2010 I saw no reference to Gaza or the Freedom March or the multi national protesters gathered there. Anyway I was moved, in the circumstances, to record a new version of ” We shall overcome”. It seems appropriate.Roger Waters
 | Speaking out on Kashmir and Palestine in the US 0 Comments - 10 Nov 2010
Yasmin Qureshi, The Electronic Intifada, 9 November 2010
Kashmiri protesters throw stones at paramilitary soldiers and police during a in Srinagar, September 2010. (Rouf Bhat/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom)
The United States has become a battleground for both the struggles of the peoples of Palestine and Kashmir, for freedom from military occupa... More Link |
 | Lessons from the UC Berkeley Divestment Effort, Hillel on Campus 0 Comments - 01 Oct 2010
Posted on MuzzleWatch, September 30 2010 by Cecilie Surasky
[Editor’s note: The Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s video report (above) on Israel-defense training for students made me think that now would be a good time to re-publish Lessons from the UC Berkeley Divestment Effort. My colleague Sydney Levy and I wrote it this summer in response ... More Link |
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Roger Waters – “We Shall Overcome”
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