Human Rights

Hong Kong, April 30, 3pm:

***** The Pillar of Shame painted Orange *****

The eight meter tall sculpture The Pillar of Shame
was today painted orange by the Chinese Democracy Movement

We have just received photos and uploaded them to the internet at:
http://www.thecolororange.net/uk/page160

The authorities had tried to obstruct the painting of the sculpture by denying the Danish artist Jens Galschiot and his staff access to Hong Kong as they landed in the airport on April 26. The expulsion has caused wide discussions in Hong Kong about whether China is now introducing their own visa rules and censorship on to Hong Kong. The Danish artist has been in Hong Kong several times before and is known for making peaceful art installations. He has put up The Pillar of Shame which has become a renowned memorial about the massacre on the Tienanmen square in Beijing 1989.

speaking for The Color Orange Project

Can China forbid the color orange?

Purpose: To use the Olympics in Beijing 2008 to visually put focus on China's violations of human rights, and to create a visual symbol, using the color orange, to remind people that "we do know there is something wrong with the respect for human rights in China." We will use the color orange and make it a symbol of the protest against the human rights violations in China.

Please Join The Boston Chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, The Mass. Chapter of The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and FOSNA/Friends of Sabeel [THE WAY] who are ecumencial Christians for Justice and Peace

At a large, area-wide mobilization

Tearing Down Walls – Building Bridges: Protesting Apartheid in Israel/Palestine
October 27th, 2007 – 3:00 p. m.
Copley Square, Boston

Hear activists from Israel, Palestine, South Africa and the U. S. address the issues of inequality, violence and peace
in Israel/Palestine

Take a stand for justice and human rights for everyone in Israel/Palestine!!!!!!!

“We should put out a clarion call to the government of the people of Israel, to the Palestinian people and say:
peace is possible, peace based on justice is possible. We will do all we can to assist you to achieve this peace,
because it is God's dream, and you will be able to live amicably together as sisters and brothers.” –

Published first on 09/28/07 @
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2007/09/28/p1982...

The Political Question and Moral Accountability
eileen fleming

"My aim is to agitate & disturb people. I'm not selling bread, I'm selling yeast." ~ Unamuno, wall graffiti in Paris, May 1968

Last week in the Al Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza, a USA made Caterpillar bulldozer was the weapon that brutally murdered 19 year old Mahmoud Khafafi. Bulldozers and tanks entered Mahmoud's farmland village at dawn and uprooted olive trees, razed the land and demolished thirteen homes. Young Palestinians threw stones at the tanks, which began shooting in return. The victim ran behind an olive tree and when the bulldozer began to uproot the tree, Mahmoud was shot in the neck, yet attempted to flee until the blade cut his head off and his brains spilled out. [http://www.mezan.org human rights organization in Gaza gathered the details]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_eileen_f_070730__22preach_to_you...

July 31, 2007
by eileen fleming

"There’s a very clear and powerful connection between how much time you serve in the territories and how F#%@&D in the head you get." -Former Israeli Soldier

published first http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org at 12:01 AM July 17, 2007

[Jerusalem, July 16, 2007] ICAHD, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions is a non-violent do something group opposed to the occupation of Palestine which resists the Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes in the Occupied Territories. This summer ICAHD has committed to rebuild 300 of the -so far 18,000 homes the Israeli government has destroyed which has resulted in creating 18,000 homeless families who legally own their land.

Published First @
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2007/06/24/the_r...

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2007/06/14/p1753...

[Washington, D.C. June 10, 2007] The final speakers at the 27th annual ADC/Arab-American Anti-Discrimination conference inspired a wave of hope amongst the SRO crowd in the Empire Room at the Omni Shoreham, by announcing that this summer ten boats will be sailing through international waters to bring food, water, medicine directly to the people of Gaza.

[Washington, D.C. June 10, 2007]In solidarity with the International Community, over 5,000 truth, justice and peace activists converged on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol for the historic national demonstration against the Israeli occupation on a hot humid Sunday afternoon and declared:

"40 years of Israel’s occupation are enough!"

Annually, for the last twenty years Mordechai Vanunu has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. This year, Vanunu has been nominated by Bishop Desmond Tutu, who received the Nobel Prize in 1984, for his courageous and fearless opposition against the South African apartheid system.

On April 30, 2007 , in the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, Mordechai Vanunu was convicted on 14 [out of 21] counts of violating a court order prohibiting him from speaking to foreign journalists in 2004.