Posted by BNC Palestine
Occupied Palestine, March 16th – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) calls for international protests leading to a boycott of Swedish fashion giant H&M, particularly in the Arab World, in response to its opening of its second store in Israel, this time in the “Malha Mall” in Jerusalem, at a time when Israel is intensifying its illegal colonization of the occupied eastern part of the city. Malha is one of the Palestinian villages that were ethnically cleansed during the 1948 Nakba and whose original Palestinian inhabitants are refugees denied their UN-sanctioned right to return to their lands. Israel, to this day, continues its policies of ethnic cleaning in Jerusalem by evicting Palestinians from their homes and replacing them with Jewish colonial settlers and by constructing tens of thousands of housing units for those settlers in the occupied Palestinian territory. All Israeli colonies are regarded as war crimes under the Fourth Geneva Convention.
you are not welcome in our stolen land of Palestine with your existing mentality
Before we accept you and welcome you as guests and as our brothers and sisters in our land that you have stolen:
Go
Repent
Wash the blood off your hands
And weep
Weep the souls of the little ones you’ve murdered
Weep the innocent villages you’ve destroyed
Weep the blessed olive trees you’ve uprooted
Weep the tears of little girls you’ve orphaned
Weep the mutilated bodies of small boys you’ve devastated
Weep the tens of thousands of youth you’ve disabled
Weep the tens of thousands of homes you demolished
Weep the millions of aching hearts of refugees you’ve created
Weep the soil of the Holy Land you’ve polluted
Weep the stream waters and ancient wells you’ve poisoned
Weep the hundreds of thousands of bodies you’ve tortured
Weep the hills and orchards you’ve disfigured
Weep the alleyways you’ve dissected
Weep the landscape you’ve cut to pieces
Weep the towns you’ve bombed to oblivion
Weep the dignified women you’ve dishonoured
Weep the enduring elderly you’ve humiliated
Weep the infants you prevented from getting to hospitals
Weep the laughter and giggles of tiny ones you’ve muted
Weep the scents of herbs and blossoms you’ve suffocated
Weep the farms you’ve destroyed and confiscated
Weep the culture of embroidery, humus and falafel you’ve robbed and claimed
Weep the prophets’ messages you’ve abused and defiled
Weep the Divine Guidance you’ve corrupted
Weep the Ten Commandments you’ve violated
And when you weep long enough, hard enough and sincerely enough, you will discover that you don’t need to come to us begging us to talk to you or to forgive you, you won’t need to go around the web scattering, boasting and blathering about peace
Because if and when your repentance is genuine it will automatically show in your actions
You will know then what you have to do and how to do it, to be forgiven
And then and only then, you WILL find “peace” that you allegedly seek
Posted by nahida the Exiled Palestinian at 1:14:00 PM
source referred by Gilad Atzmon
undercurrentspaulo — 31 mars 2010 — Shoppers occupied Waitrose supermarket in London in protest over the support for illegal settlements in Israel. Much of the produce sold as ‘Israel’ actually comes from stolen lands in Palestine.
Global day of action for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. In solidarity with people of Palestine
30 March 2010, London
more info on http://www.waronwant.org
Hiding behind the complexities of our financial system, banks and other institutions are being accused of fraud and deception, with Goldman Sachs just the latest in the spotlight. This has become the most pressing election issue of all
The global financial crisis, it is now clear, was caused not just by the bankers’ colossal mismanagement. No, it was due also to the new financial complexity offering up the opportunity for widespread, systemic fraud. Friday’s announcement that the world’s most famous investment bank, Goldman Sachs, is to face civil charges for fraud brought by the American regulator is but the latest of a series of investigations that have been launched, arrests made and charges made against financial institutions around the world.
The image Microsoft doesn’t want you to see: Too tired to stay awake, the Chinese workers earning just 34p an hour
By Liz Hull and Lee Sorrell
Last updated at 12:29 AM on 18th April 2010
Employed for gruelling 15-hour shifts, in appalling conditions and 86f heat, many fall asleep on their stations during their meagre ten-minute breaks.
For as little as 34p an hour, the men and women work six or seven days a week, making computer mice and web cams for the American multinational computer company.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Interview with Carlos Latuff by Kourosh Ziabari
for Iran’s Jame-Jam newspaper
The hero of “freedom of speech”, boycotted by the corporate, mainstream media that are irresistible against the astringent truth: this is the most precise and accurate introduction which I can present about Carlos Latuff. Born in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he is an artist of conscience whose artistic commitment and morality prevented him from becoming the pawn of imperialism.
Carlos Latuff is a world-renowned cartoonist who has long brought into existence artistic works and cartoons in which the footsteps of creativity, novelty, intelligence and decency can be traced noticeably. He has never been given the opportunity to showcase his matchless cartoons in the New York Times, Guardian, Washington Post, BBC or CNN; however, the narrow hallways of personal blogs and independent media outlets which allowed his cartoons to breathe in the atmosphere of publicity, made him a man of genuineness and reality, known by those who seek something beyond the outdated, obsolete propaganda of “all options are on the table”.
Carlos Latuff has drawn numerous cartoons which depict the pains of oppressed nations around the world; from the Palestinians being suffocated under the Israeli occupation to the Iranians receiving the spates of psychological operation co-manufactured by the White House and Tel Aviv.
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