At 10 am, five hundred headed out on the street. "No Olympics on stolen Native land," chanted marchers. Pylons began flying into traffic; traffic made way for the marchers. A few police on bicycles followed behind.

In weekly Friday protest in Bi'lin, Palestinian territories, thousands tear through segregation barrier.

During the weekly protest in the Palestinian village of Bil'in, thousands of activists assembled to celebrate five years of non-violent resistance. This form of popular struggle has spread to many other Palestinian villages and areas in East Jerusalem. The protests are made to show opposition to the confiscation of roughly half of the village's land by the Israeli Jewish-only settlement colony of Modi'in Illit. In 2007, after the village protested every Friday for almost 3 years, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that the barrier does not serve a security purpose and ordered it rerouted. The Israeli army however, did not start to reroute the barrier until last week and informed the village that it will only return 364 (or 60%) of its 575 taken acres. During this week's protest the army fired dozens of tear gas canisters, shock grenades, and sprayed the crowd with liquid smelling like sewer and feces.

Source & author: http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&I...

"In real time, neurology wards have become casinos: hospitals are boutiques of harm." - MashCan

Gail Shea Minister of Fisheries and Oceans was pied on Monday morning to protest the seal hunt. Gail Shea is doing all she can to open new markets since the EU ban, she just got back from China where she was peddling seal penises, seal pepperoni and baby seal fur. One person from her delegation commented that "The Chinese will eat anything", she commented that it was nice not having to deal with protests.

- Credit : ThePhaedrus83
- Original complete speech (video) on IVAW Racism and War: the Dehumanization of the Enemy.

On 6th of January 2010, in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey, a press release was arranged on Yuksel Street, for solidarity with conscience objector Enver Aydemir.

When UK eyes stop smiling...

January 1, 2010 - For months international, Israeli, and Palestinian activists have been planning the Gaza Freedom March. Organizers hoped an international delegation of 1300 activists from around the world would break the siege on Gaza by marching through Gaza to the northern border and through the Erez crossing, join the Israeli march. The Real News attended the Israeli side of the protest, and though the Egyptian government prevented the activists from entering Gaza, hundreds gathered to raise awareness of the desperate situation in Gaza a year after Operation Cast Lead. [transcript and TheREALnews here »»]

A new series of oil paintings examining the daily existence of people making a living in the worst working conditions in the global economy.

Internationalists Communists of Montreal (ICM) have a English blog now :

http://internationalistcommunistsmontreal.blogspot.com/

cim_icm@yahoo.com

Gaza families Humanitarian Appeals
Strip, five thousand family requests your help to get the national identity,,,

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines – Dozens of journalists held a prayer rally Wednesday in Zamboanga City to remember and seek justice for the brutal slayings of 57 people, among them at least 30 journalists massacred last month in Maguindanao province in the southern Philippines.

* This report originally appears in issue #57 of Venezuelan anarchist newspaper El Libertario www.nodo50.org/ellibertario [website in Spanish, English & other languages]. It is a detailed examination of the events behind the mobile telephone manufacturer Vetelca, in which the notion of a socialist industrial production model in Venezuela is unmasked.

Warning
Keep the Olympic torch out of kahnawake and all native communities

As you are fully aware the 2010 Olympic games have become a contentious issue within the Native world, due to the fact that in order to accommodate the games, native lands have once again been stolen in a racist act of aggression by the Canadian Government.

However, through this issue, the racism has reared its ugly face not only through the Government, but now, within non-Native citizens as well.

In an attempt to eradicate Native resistance to the I.O.C. sponsored theft of Native lands, the said bodies have launched a “fifth column maneuveur” upon the Native people designed to segregate ourselves on this issue.

The I.O.C. has allowed itself to be used by the Canadian Government to “divide and conquer” Native People, by taking special measures to involve Native communities in the Olympic torch relay, knowing full well that the Native people in the west who have had their land stolen, issued a request to all Native people to support them in their ban of the 2010 Olympic games.

Part 1 & 2 upcoming...

While traveling to Vancouver, Canada to speak at the Vancouver Public Library at a benefit for community radio stations, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and her two colleagues were detained by Canadian authorities. Amy was questioned extensively about the speech she intended to give; their car was gone through by armed border guards, and their papers and laptop computers were scoured. The armed interrogators were particularly interested in whether she would be speaking about the upcoming Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.[rush transcript, video, audio»»]