ACTION ITEM BELOW TO THANK LARRY PAGE FOR JUST ACT The Internet giant isn’t waiting for Palestinians and Israelis to settle their differences. On the first of the month, without firing off a press release, Google changed its home page in Gaza and the West Bank from “Google: Palestinian Territories” to “Google: Palestine.” It turns…more »
Physicist pulls out of conference hosted by president Shimon Peres in protest at treatment of Palestinians Professor Stephen Hawking is backing the academic boycott of Israel by pulling out of a conference hosted by Israeli president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem as a protest at Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. Hawking, 71, the world-renowned theoretical physicist and…more »
Prior to the start of the Iraq War on March 19, 2003, New York Times journalist Chris Hedges (right) occupied a lonely perch among major media journalists. He opposed the war. Today, Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize winner and now a columnist for the website Truthdig, continues to write with the passion of a man set…more »
Important news from Europe. Another country is taking a stand against the occupation. Haaretz: The Dutch government has for the first time called for retail chains in the Netherlands to state the origin of products from West Bank settlements, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. This makes the Netherlands, one of Israel’s greatest friends in…more »
$85 billion in cuts; Republicans blame Democrats, Democrats blame Republicans, but neither blame AIPAC. The Sequester On March 1, President Obama signed an order imposing across-the-board cuts to defense and non-defense spending, known as the “sequester,” after Congress failed in its final efforts to avoid such cuts. The cuts total about $85 billion for the…more »
In A World Shy On Heroes, Meet One Of Mine This is a brief tribute and thank you to a dear friend whom I never met but who was with me, none the less, in spirit, in struggle, and in actions. Stéphane Hessel, died today at age 95. I have two copies of his book,…more »
Student activists in California have exposed inflammatory remarks made by a university lecturer who is the head of an Israel lobby group that tries to pressure college administrations and state officials into investigating what the lecturer calls anti-Semitism. Activists have started a petition calling on the University of California President to condemn the statements made…more »
Why a Tent Protest Works for BabAlShams in E1 and not for Solidarity in the US On the UC Berkeley campus lawn, tent dwellers posted banners. “Occupy Education.” “We are the 99 percent.” Helium balloons, tied with strings to the tops of the tents, helped to occupy another three feet of vertical space, while police…more »
The Center for Constitutional Rights is tracking incidents of repression, big and small. The Center for Constitutional Rights has launched a Palestine Solidarity Legal Support Intake System and Website. To All Palestinian Rights Activists: To All Muslim and Arab Student Activists: To All Human Rights Activists: The Center for Constitutional Rights, in collaboration with the…more »
From my writing and activism over the past few weeks, some students have asked why I am so interested in the illegal American-Israeli occupation of Palestine. It seems as though it is weird for me to be concerned about the international human rights conflict in which I am most heavily implicated — both as an…more »
Petrochemical America
By Richard Misrach and Kate Orff
Time For Outrage: Indignez-vous!
By Stéphane Hessel
Death of the Liberal Class
By Chris Hedges
The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress
By Chris Hedges
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
By Chris Hedges
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
By Chris Hedges
How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate
By Jeff Goodell
The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America
By Peter Dale Scott
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
By Naomi Klein
Silent Spring
By Rachel Carson
The Death and Life of Monterey Bay: A Story of Revival
By Dr. Stephen R Palumbi PhD
The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine
By Miko Peled
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
By Dee Brown
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Ilan Pappé
An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land
William Stringfellow
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
By Albert Camus
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights
Omar Barghouti
Power and Struggle (Politics of Nonviolent Action, Part 1)
Gene Sharp
Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia
By David Vine
Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
By Jonathan Glover
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
By Paul Farmer
The Seven Story Mountain: An Autobiography of Faith.
By Thomas Merton
Beyond The Green Zone: Dispatches From An Unembedded Journalist In Occupied Iraq
By Dahr Jamail
Forward by Amy Goodman
The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan
By Dahr Jamail
Forward by Chris Hedges
Empire of Illusion: The End Of Literacy And The Triumph Of Spectacle
By Chris Hedges
A People's History Of The United States: 1492-Present
By Howard Zinn
Blood And Oil: The Dangers And Consequences Of America's Growing Dependency On Imported Petroleum
By Michael T. Klare
The Goldstone Report: The Legacy Of The Landmark Investigation Of The Gaza Conflict
By Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner, And Philip Weiss
Foreword By Desmond Tutu
Introduction By Naomi Klein
The Uterine Crisis
By IIya Sandra Perlin
