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Latest News, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Jan 1, 2011

Jawaher Abu Rahmah, a 34-year-old woman from Bil'n, died this morning in a Ramallah hospital as result of poisoning caused by tear gas inhalation. Jawaher fainted after inhaling a large quantity of gas during the weekly protest against the Wall in Bil'n and was rushed immediately to Ramallah for treatment, where she remained until passing away this morning.

According to a 2008 report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer, spending for the war in Afghanistan will reach the sum of $18.1 billion in 2011. This represents over $200 million per month, or $1,500 per household. Among all these expenses, the military component accounts for 71% to 77%.

Fuck Hamas. Fuck Israel. Fuck Fatah. Fuck UN. Fuck UNWRA. Fuck USA! We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of human rights and the indifference of the international community!

We want to scream and break this wall of silence, injustice and indifference like the Israeli F16’s breaking the wall of sound; scream with all the power in our souls in order to release this immense frustration that consumes us because of this fucking situation we live in...

Context :
Coalition of Resistance
National conference - Youth, Students and Education Workshop
27 novembre 2010 - Camden, London, U.K.

Ten Days of Intensive Training in Central Mexico: Video Production, Investigative & Online Reporting, and Movement Strategies for Journalists

Solidarity with Roger Clement-- Against all prisons

Three thousand flyers were distributed in the Montreal metro system during rush hour on Wednesday, December 8th, 2010 in solidarity with Roger Clement, and against all prisons and the world that needs and maintains them. On Tuesday, Roger was sentenced to 4 years in prison for arson and vandalism of a Royal Bank of Canada branch in Ottawa, Ontario after negotiating a plea deal earlier in November. The plea deal ensures that Roger will not have to inform on his two co-accused, whose charges relating to the firebombing were dropped and stayed. The text from the flyer was posted here

Richard Holbrooke, the top U.S. Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, died after emergency heart surgery at the age of 69. His last words, reported by family members and his surgeon before he underwent surgery were: "You have to stop this war in Afghanistan".

These dying words were reported in his obituary in the Washington Post and on major US networks and international news agencies. So why did big Canadian media outlets not event make mention of this in their reports on his death ?

Chicago's 49th Ward is the first U.S. government to let the people make their own budget, following a practice begun in Porto Alegre, Brazil over twenty years ago.

For more than twenty years, the people of Porto Alegre, Brazil have been directly determining how the city spends it's money. The process is called participatory budgeting and it is practiced in more than 1,200 municipalities worldwide today. Chicago's 49th Ward became the first US community to adopt the practice in 2009, and is now repeating the process again this year. We speak to Ines Sommer, a filmmaker and resident of the ward about the process thus far.

Mobile Broadcast News reports from a convergence of indigenous environmental activists headed to Cancun to oppose UN climate change conference (relayed by theREALnews Network)

Excerpt : The Caravan continued towards Cancun to take part in a convergence of approximately 10,000 other Caravan riders arriving Friday and Saturday from across Central and South America. They plan to take part in more than a week of protest actions to counter the conferences surrounding the COP16.

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