Posted by Charles on May 18, 2008
Two separate news articles reveal Israel’s police brutality towards Nakba protestors.
In one ground report, Jonathan Cook described in great detail the disproportional police violence by Israeli paramilitary police against protestors, many of them with children, who were marching in the village of Saffuriya, Nazareth. As he relates,
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Posted by Charles on May 15, 2008
Given that this blog has committed itself to blog about human rights on 15 May on Bloggers Unite for Human Rights, we have picked some urgent issues to highlight the continuing prevalent human rights violations that are occurring around the world…
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Posted by Charles on May 14, 2008
The Ralph Nader Presidential Campaign website has posted a link to a documentary, Debating the Role of Third Parties in the US, which is taken from the second disc of the DVD set of ‘An Unreasonable Man’. (The above clip is the first part of the documentary) Divided into 5 separate clips, it features interviews from academics such as Barry Burden from Harvard University to historian Howard Zinn and Ralph Nader, an Independent Presidential candidate as they trace the history and importance of third parties in America. Even if you disagree with Nader or third party politics, this film will expose how the two party system has entrenched itself to prevent other candidates from standing for elections.
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