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Jun 03

Muhammad Sarsak. Day #81 of Hunger Strike.

Muhammad Sarsak. Day #81 of Hunger Strike.

Falasteen

Falasteen

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antieverythingism: ysalameh: OH MY GOD! I FINALLY FOUND IT! I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR YEARS! I remember watching the MTV music awards a very long while ago, and noticed one of the members Maroon 5 were wearing a t-shirt with a Palestine flag on it, AND IT’S BEEN FOUND!!! Respect!!

antieverythingism:

ysalameh:

OH MY GOD! I FINALLY FOUND IT! I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR YEARS! I remember watching the MTV music awards a very long while ago, and noticed one of the members Maroon 5 were wearing a t-shirt with a Palestine flag on it, AND IT’S BEEN FOUND!!!

Respect!!

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Jun 02

bintfalastiniya: Graffiti on the apartheid wall #palestine #graffiti #falasteen #bethlehem (Taken with instagram)

bintfalastiniya:

Graffiti on the apartheid wall #palestine #graffiti #falasteen #bethlehem (Taken with instagram)

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May 26

futurejournalismproject: YouTube Launches Human Rights Channel Via the YouTube blog: Activists around the world use YouTube to document causes they care about and make them known to the world. In the case of human rights, video plays a particularly important role in illuminating what occurs when governments and individuals in power abuse their positions. We’ve seen this play out on a global stage during the Arab Spring, for example: during the height of the activity, 100,000 videos were uploaded from Egypt, a 70% increase on the preceding three months. And we’ve seen it play out in specific, local cases with issues like police brutality, discrimination, elder abuse, gender-based violence, socio-economic justice, access to basic resources, and bullying. That’s why our non-profit partner WITNESS, a global leader in the use of video for human rights, and Storyful, a social newsgathering operation, are joining forces to launch a new Human Rights channel on YouTube, dedicated to curating hours of raw citizen-video documenting human rights stories that are uploaded daily and distributing that to audiences hungry to learn and take action. The channel, which will also feature content from a slate of human rights organizations already sharing their work on YouTube, aims to shed light on and contextualize under-reported stories, to record otherwise undocumented abuses, and to amplify previously unheard voices. The project was announced today at the Internet at Liberty conference, and will live at youtube.com/humanrights. Storyful will source and verify the videos, and WITNESS will ensure the channel features a balanced breadth of issues with the context viewers need to understand the rights issue involved. We hope this project can not only be a catalyst to awareness, but offer people new avenues for action and impact. The channel is committed to providing new citizen creators as well as viewers with the tools and information necessary so that every citizen can become a more effective human rights defender. It will also be available on Google+, where the broader human rights community can take part in discussions, share material, and find collaborators. Image: Screenshot the Human Rights YouTube channel.

futurejournalismproject:

YouTube Launches Human Rights Channel

Via the YouTube blog:

Activists around the world use YouTube to document causes they care about and make them known to the world. In the case of human rights, video plays a particularly important role in illuminating what occurs when governments and individuals in power abuse their positions. We’ve seen this play out on a global stage during the Arab Spring, for example: during the height of the activity, 100,000 videos were uploaded from Egypt, a 70% increase on the preceding three months. And we’ve seen it play out in specific, local cases with issues like police brutality, discrimination, elder abuse, gender-based violence, socio-economic justice, access to basic resources, and bullying.

That’s why our non-profit partner WITNESS, a global leader in the use of video for human rights, and Storyful, a social newsgathering operation, are joining forces to launch a new Human Rights channel on YouTube, dedicated to curating hours of raw citizen-video documenting human rights stories that are uploaded daily and distributing that to audiences hungry to learn and take action. The channel, which will also feature content from a slate of human rights organizations already sharing their work on YouTube, aims to shed light on and contextualize under-reported stories, to record otherwise undocumented abuses, and to amplify previously unheard voices. The project was announced today at the Internet at Liberty conference, and will live at youtube.com/humanrights. Storyful will source and verify the videos, and WITNESS will ensure the channel features a balanced breadth of issues with the context viewers need to understand the rights issue involved.

We hope this project can not only be a catalyst to awareness, but offer people new avenues for action and impact. The channel is committed to providing new citizen creators as well as viewers with the tools and information necessary so that every citizen can become a more effective human rights defender. It will also be available on Google+, where the broader human rights community can take part in discussions, share material, and find collaborators.

Image: Screenshot the Human Rights YouTube channel.

May 25

Boycott Adidas for Sponsoring the “Jerusalem Marathon”

Boycott Adidas for Sponsoring the “Jerusalem Marathon”

May 24

London 2012 Olympics to Enforce Brand Exclusion Zones

London 2012 Olympics to Enforce Brand Exclusion Zones

“I’m Not Allowed on Israel’s Segregated Buses” —stopfundingapartheid.org

“I’m Not Allowed on Israel’s Segregated Buses”

—stopfundingapartheid.org

May 23

thepalestineyoudontknow: The golden Dome of the Rock is seen in the background as Palestinian father of six, Azzam Afifi, uses a sledge hammer to destroy his own home in Jerusalem’s Old City on May 23, 2012, as he carries out an Israeli court order which ruled that the house was built without a municipality permit. Many Palestinians end up demolishing their homes themselves to avoid the high cost of paying for Israeli government bulldozers, or go to prison for not being able to pay. PHOTO/AHMAD 2012 AFP

thepalestineyoudontknow:

The golden Dome of the Rock is seen in the background as Palestinian father of six, Azzam Afifi, uses a sledge hammer to destroy his own home in Jerusalem’s Old City on May 23, 2012, as he carries out an Israeli court order which ruled that the house was built without a municipality permit. Many Palestinians end up demolishing their homes themselves to avoid the high cost of paying for Israeli government bulldozers, or go to prison for not being able to pay. PHOTO/AHMAD 2012 AFP


May 20

jakoburnian: Yousef Katalo, Return is our right and our destiny: the Nakba at 64, 2012

jakoburnian:

Yousef Katalo, Return is our right and our destiny: the Nakba at 64, 2012

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fotojournalismus: Women’s bathroom in Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza, Jan. 19, 2006. [Credit : Alexandra Boulat]

fotojournalismus:

Women’s bathroom in Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza, Jan. 19, 2006.

[Credit : Alexandra Boulat]

May 19: Birthday of Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh, two great revolutionary fighters for social justice and national liberation.

May 19: Birthday of Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh, two great revolutionary fighters for social justice and national liberation.

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May 19

“By storying, or what I sometimes call here ‘the counterfeit tradition,’ I don’t mean falsehood or some kind of fake blackness; nor do I mean to champion the recently prevalent bending of truth to make money or avoid trouble, as practiced by government officials and writers from Jayson Blair to Margaret Seltzer to James Frey, in the manner lately called ‘truthiness.’ For where these faux journalists and worse seem to exhibit imagination, they in fact mark the failure of it. They bend the truth, instead of taking it apart to explore or expand it—*or does it explode?*—and usually in the service of cash’s cold comfort.”

“By storying, or what I sometimes call here ‘the counterfeit tradition,’ I don’t mean falsehood or some kind of fake blackness; nor do I mean to champion the recently prevalent bending of truth to make money or avoid trouble, as practiced by government officials and writers from Jayson Blair to Margaret Seltzer to James Frey, in the manner lately called ‘truthiness.’

For where these faux journalists and worse seem to exhibit imagination, they in fact mark the failure of it.

They bend the truth, instead of taking it apart to explore or expand it—*or does it explode?*—and usually in the service of cash’s cold comfort.”

Happy Birthday, Yuri Kochiyama.

Happy Birthday, Yuri Kochiyama.