"Stop this War!" - Protests across Aotearoa
#media_7481;left# There have been demonstrations across Aotearoa as the Israeli war machine inflicts more and more casualties in Lebanon and Palestine. With the death toll in Lebanon estimated at up to seven hundred and fifty and no end in sight to this war, New Zealanders are mobilsing to demand that Israel end its agression immediately so that no more innocent people on both sides of the conflict die.
In Auckland around 300 people braved pouring rain to hold a lively march and rally to call for an end to US and Israeli imperialism in the Middle East. Demonstrators staged a die-in at the US consulate before burning US and Israeli flags. Report | Video
#media_7468;left# In Wellington a few hundred protestors marched down Lambton Quay to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade as part of a Wellington Palestine Group protest to demand that the government not allow Israel to reopen its embassy in New Zealand until such time as Israel has ceased hostilities, demolished the separation wall, withdrawn from occupied territory and fulfilled its international law obligations on Palestinian refugees. Report
In Dunedin an emergency demonstration against the war attracted 250-300 people who marched on the Octagon via Labour MP Pete Hodgson's office and called on the government not to resume any military joint-training exercises with the USA (something Winston Peters was trying desperately to secure on his latest trip to Washington DC). Report
#media_7488;left# The National Distribution Union who represent packing and distribution workers in New Zealand has condemned the Israeli air
strike on a Lebanese fruit-packing warehouse that killed 33 farm workers. [ Media Release ]
A group called 'Aotearoa Jews for Justice' says they stand "in solidarity with the Lebanese and Palestinian people suffering
at the hands of the Israeli army. [...] We draw from a long tradition of Jews who have campaigned for social justice and against racism and colonialism
regardless of where it has occurred."
Links: IMC Beirut | IMC Israel |
International Middle East Media Centre | A-IMC Feature | Wikipedia Page: Global citizen reactions to the conflict Sign the Ceasefire Petition
Lebanon: Demonstrations every night in Beirut. | Civilian resiatance to occupation. Support the convoy to south Lebanon. | Map of Lebanon's damages | Unexploded cluster bombs will kill again | Israel cluster bombed 170 sites in Lebanon
Ireland: Anti-war activists trash arms manufacturer in Derry. Computer system was "completley diabled". | Foriegn Affairs Committee of the Irish parliament calls for economic sanctions against Israel.
Palestine: International Solidarity Movement activists and Palestinians face rubber bullets and teargas protesting the attack on Lebanon and Israel's apatheid wall in the West Bank. See Also: Serious head injuries for protstors in Bil'in | Video | Updates
Fiji: Three Israeli backpackers were deported from Fiji for mistreating Palestinians in military service.
Australia: Thousands rally for Peace in Lebanon
Scotland: 10 000 rally in Edinburgh
England: RAF Brize Norton blockaded | Protests at Downing Street | Die-in in Newcastle
United States: Major demonstrations in Washington D.C., San Francisco, Seattle and Los Angeles.
George Galloway: Gives Sky TV a "bloody good hiding." Video
Anarchists: Interview with militants in Lebanon. Video
Socialists: Hizbollah leader thanks socialists for their support. Interview
Amnesty International: Deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure. Report
There have been protest all around the world. Approximately 2000 Jews and Palestinians
marched through Tel Aviv on 29th July in protest
against Israel’s ongoing war in Lebanon and Gaza. An Indymedia activist was arrested
at a protest in Perth that same day and fined $400 and ordered to pay court costs.
Aotearoa Indymedia Newswire Articles
24.08. Matt McCarten comments on Lebanon
21.08. UN/Zionist permanent warfare against the ‘dirt eaters’
07.08. Greens have no answers to war in Lebanon
06.08. Dunedin protest report
06.08. Aotearoa Jews For Justice Speaks Out Against Israel
06.08. Protest against Israel's actions in The Mid-East in Wellington
05.08. Union Condemns Israeli Warehouse Attack Deaths
05.08. Report on Protest Against War in Lebanon/Palestine
04.08. A message to the US, Israel: “We will remember Qana”
03.08. NZ University must cut exchange program with Israel
02.08. NZ MUSLIMS AND JEWS STAND TOGETHER AGAINST RACISM
Aotearoa Indymedia Features
28.07. Palestine/Lebanon solidarity events in Aotearoa
24.07. Aucklanders march for Palestine and Lebanon
04.07. Israel steps up attacks on Gaza
Anti-war Organisations in New Zealand
Peace Movement Aotearoa - Information page on the conflict.
Global Peace and Justice Auckland
Peace Action Wellington
Palestine Human Rights Campaign
Wellington Palestine Group
Aotearoa Jews for Justice
Auckland University Students for Justice in Palestine
Related
http://declarationofpeace.org/
http://www.lebanonsolidarity.org/
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Great! STOP THE FUCKING WAR!
$ioni$m = I$rael + U$A : FUCK THEM!
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Hi DK,
Nice to hear from you again. Thank you very much for sending me this article as a friend and I have been doing a lot of study about this area and what is going on. It is a pity that a lot more people have not got onto this "Talmud" as the cause of all the unrest in the World. The absolute hatred that you see when you read it is unbelievable to especially the Christian thinking and following people. Satan alive absolutely. The last time I was in England I went to York City up in the Midlands and in the middle of the city is a memorial to the 10,000 jews that occupied the city before they were thrown out of England. In and around York they lent their false money to farmers and businessman then inflated the interest rates and started to put a lot out of business and claim their farms (sound familiar) until the locals turned on them. In Christianity and Islam usuary is forbidden of course. The jews gathered in this area which had a small castle in the middle and as the crowd gathered to slaughter them the jews all committed suicide by their own hands rather than let the crowd tear them apart. The lucky ones escaped and went to America and formed the city of New York. This is the reason why it is a jewish and illegitimate money stronghold that with the help of the Federal Reserve (A privately owned bank) which with the also privately own Bank of England controls almost everything now. Quote:- Rothschild, "I care not who is the government as long as I control the money." Another Quote from Reginald McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer(England 1936 said this when Chairman of the Midland Bank, England :- "He who controls the credit of a nation directs the policy of Government and holds in the palm of his hand the destiny of the people within it."
That is how they do it through the World Bank and the Inernational Monetary Fund(IMF) which are just off shoots of the first mentioned to cover them up. Most people think that they are owned by the people(eg. Goverrnment) America was built on interest free money in the 16, 17 and 18th centuryies and different Presidents who stood up to this fraude usually didn't last to long. Eg, Lincoln and Kennedy to name a couple closer to today. The rest are just puppetts put there by this banking cartel whether they are Republican or Democrat or Diddly Dodly Party. Until the people as a whole stand up like the people of York did we will have to put up with it. If you put up with a lie you have to live like a lie unfortunately in order to survive. The answer just lies within each and everyone of us to rid this world of this vampire that is sucking us dry. There is so few of them and so many of us it would be a dodle in the park like in York. The Americans lost control completely of their money in 1913 when the Federal Reserve was created by illigitimate means at Christmas 1913 by 13 Congressmen and the then President, Wilson I think. Who on his deathbed apologised to the people of America. Something you don't read about in the newspapers. The Bank of England was formed in 1693 when the Jewish bankers took over the money supply from the then King by putting him into debt. Unfortunately this is a very short pre'cise' of what has gone on.
Cheers,
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Re: "Stop this War!" - Protests across Aotearoa
Tricks to burning a wet flag:
1) rinse it out if it is wet
2) lighter fluid is often used, the best is shell-lite as it wont evaporate as fast, is not a hot burning flame, will burn on the surface long enough to evoporate the water in your water-logged flags. Shell-lite and its variants also give off little smoke.
3) drench it in the stuff
4) Dont be tempted to use petrol, not in crowded areas
LINK-USS Kitty Hawk Bombs Western Australia
http://perth.indymedia.org/index.php?action=newswire&parentview=24970
Win this War!
Enough of this stop the war bullshit!
This is a war that has to be won or lost!
In the report above there is no mention that Hizbollah is the national liberation army of Lebanon. Lebanon is depicted as a victim when in reality Hizbollah is the Lebanese liberation army. the only force that has inflicted big damage on the Zionist state for decades. Ignoring Hizbollah's national role invites the lies that it is no more than an Iranian stooge.
There is no recognition that this war is one front of the war on terror. The others are Palestine, Syria, Iraq and Iran. A defeat for Hizbollah in Lebanon will be a defeat for the Palestinians first, then second the Iraqi masses, then it will make an attack on Iran much more likely. Finally it is a defeat for all Arab and Islamic masses, and the workers and poor peasants in Asia, Africa and the Americas.
In this war the US and Israel must be defeated!
Victory for Hizbollah!
No ceasefire without a complete withdrawal of Israel from Lebanon!
No imperialist 'peacekeeping' force!
Lebanon for Lebanese!
Victory to Iraq!
Defeat imperialism in the Middle East!
In the text above there is no call for a single state of Palestine, secular, democratic, non-racist!
Instead we have the pathetic calls for Israel to retreat to the 1967 borders, pull down the wall etc.
We have the NZ peace movement on its knees begging the Labour Government to keep the Israeli Consulate closed until Israel ceases 'its hostilities'.
Which 'hostilities' would these be? Those before 1948 that terrorised the Palestinians off their land, those after 1948 that forced the state of Israel onto the Palestinians, or just those of the last months that terrorised Gaza and then invaded and bombed Lebanon?
This pathetic pacifism leaves the matter of Israel's existence on Palestinian land unspoken.
The very existence of Israel originated in terror, war and ongoing repression. At what point then do we want Israel to 'cease its hostilities'?
Clearly by renouncing its violent birth and uniting with the Palestinians in one Palestine. But the Zionist ruling class backed by the imperialists will never agree to this. Only the working class in Israel and in the imperialist countries can make this happen.
But the pacifist posturing of the Western and Israeli left plays into the hands of the imperialist ruling classes. It wants to 'stop the war' leaving Israel and the US the victors.
The working class does not take up the demand to defeat their own ruling classes. 'Stop the War' coalitions do not stop their own bosses' war machines, but build coalitions with middle class and liberal bourgeoisies who 'pray' or 'legislate' for peace.
Israeli workers pray for peace in Lebanon or go to jail for refusing to fight in the occupied territories. But the class war is at home. The Zionist state and the Zionist army must be defeated by Israeli workers unconditionally supporting the Palestinian for a right to return to a single, secular, democratic, non-racist state of Palestine.
The Western anti-war movement doesnt understand yet that these wars are not going to stop until one or other side wins. Who is that going to be?
On the one side is the US and its Israeli gendarme, UK, France and other imperialist states, along with the gutless sellout Arab national leaders always wanting a cut in the imperialist profits. And arnt they squirming at the masses moving under their feet!
On the other side are the Arab and Islamic masses, the Israeli workers who are prepared to fight the Zionist state to the death, and all the world's workers who unite with them in the struggle to smash imperialism and Zionism.
Which side are you on?
Re: "Stop this War!" - Protests across Aotearoa
"Which side are you on?",,,,,,,,,,, the side that wants the izzies to fuck off back to London where they came from
Re: "Stop this War!" - Protests across Aotearoa
Return the stolen land to Maori, motherfuckers!
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Communists want to help Hezbollah?
Why do communists, who claim to be for equality of the sexes, support the government of Iran where a woman can be stoned to death for the "crime" of being raped?
Why do the communist protesters who march for "freedom of speech" support Hezbollah and Hamas which have targeted journalists, and the radical regimes which suppress the press in their nations, and groups which have threatened Jihad over cartoons and beheaded filmmakers in Europe?
Why do people who claim to be for peace support kidnappers and butchers hwo rocket cities and base weapons in hospitals and mosques, and use donated ambulances as weapon and troop transports?
Why do the Communists, who claim to be for freedom of religion, or even from it, support an ideology of religious repression and murder by fiat from Ayatollahs and self-appointed "Leaders?" Well, Communists have had plenty of the second catergory, Mao, Stalin etc., but for them I thought State Religion was the State itself, and whoever the dictator or leadership was. Why support some radical terrorist group which kills because of what Marx would call "The opiate of the masses?" Maybe they just figure they want to wreck the country and will glom on to whoever else is trying to do it, because they have not the ideas nor the ability to do so themselves. In which case they are not only foolish and immature but spiteful and petty as well.