Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with civil_rights www.salem-news.com 2010 There is speculation that Washington has called off its two longest running wars--Iraq and Afghanistan--in order to deploy forces against Iran. Two of Washington’s fleets have been assigned to the Persian Gulf along with NATO warships. Missiles have been spread amongst Washington’s Oil Emirate and Middle Eastern puppet states. US troops have been deployed in Israel and Kuwait. http://salem-news.com/articles/february102012/iran-peril-pcr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february102012/iran-peril-pcr.php Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:14:00 PST There are few crimes more despicable then stealing your neighbour’s water.and polluting what’s left, then watching him and his children suffer thirst, disease and ruin. Most of us would want nothing to do with the perpetrators of such evil. http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/water-thieves-sl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/water-thieves-sl.php Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:45:00 PST The West Bank and Gaza are in the midst of a humanitarian crisis. Restrictions on movement, home destruction and widespread violence against Palestinians, have created an ongoing emergency. http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/unrwa-gaza.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/unrwa-gaza.php Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:57:00 PST Pfc. Bradley Manning was just nominated for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize!1 Last week, Major General Linnington gave the final recommendation for Manning to face court martial on all 22 charges, including the vindictive aiding the enemy charge. http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/manning-nobel-bs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/manning-nobel-bs.php Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:16:00 PST The Global March to Jerusalem/GMJ commences on 30 March and coincides with the 36th anniversary of LAND DAY. As “reality leaves much to the imagination” [John Lennon] I imagine the third intifada could finally erupt if those two events were joined into from every city, town and village throughout Israel by contingents of nonviolent residents. http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/global-revolution-ef.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/global-revolution-ef.php Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:38:00 PST A 15-year-old boy was among those detained by the riot police on Monday night in Portland, Oregon. The latest arrests come as local authorities have in recent days launched a crackdown against the nationwide Occupy movement. http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/occupy-portland-ptv.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/occupy-portland-ptv.php Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:05:00 PST A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization is calling on the DOJ's Civil Rights Division to investigate acts of “coercion and intimidation” in the FBI’s Portland Field Office. The agency is accused of pressuring Muslims into giving up constitutional rights if they wish to return to the U.S. from overseas. http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/muslim-coercion.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/muslim-coercion.php Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:58:00 PST Can a roommate-seeker be sued for housing discrimination? Last week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals became the first court in the nation to say, “no.” The case involved a lawsuit against Roommates.com, a roommate-locator service that asked users to fill out a form stating the sexual orientation of their preferred roommate and whether they wanted to live with children. http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/discrimination-roommates-ro.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/discrimination-roommates-ro.php Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:09:00 PST Arising out the will of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish chemist who invented dynamite, the Nobel Prize is universally recognized as the most prestigious award in the fields of peace-making, economics, chemistry, physics, medicine and literature. How about an international award - without the gold medal, the diploma and the money - for hypocrisy? http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/hypocrisy-award-ah.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/hypocrisy-award-ah.php Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:18:00 PST It's no secret that Twitter and other social media has helped launch the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street. Now Oregon politicians want to have people arrested for using social media when officials deem their activity is encouraging "civil disobedience". Civil disobedience- brought tyrants to their knees, buckled evil regimes and in the U.S. it brought focus to the Civil Rights movement... http://salem-news.com/articles/february062012/criminal-twitter-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february062012/criminal-twitter-tk.php Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:03:00 PST There is nothing in the Constitution that requires the government to bow to the wishes of a particular religion. It simply requires that reputable religions be respected by all people. For Republicans in general or its candidates in particular to say otherwise is to play upon Catholic and Evangelical emotions to defeat and replace a sitting President. It is deceitful and a disgrace to all who subscribe to such nonsense. http://salem-news.com/articles/february062012/being-honest-kr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february062012/being-honest-kr.php Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:54:00 PST Students United For Palestinian Equal Rights has organized a wide-ranging conference that is designed to analyze the events of the Arab Spring. The event will examine its regional and international implications, and its effects on the future of Palestine. http://salem-news.com/articles/february062012/super-pdx.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february062012/super-pdx.php Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:03:00 PST During a workshop at the American University of Beirut last year on the subject of the right to work and to purchase a home for Palestinian refugees, a young business major from the Christian village of Bikerki posed a question that surprised some in the audience: “Why if Palestinian don’t like it in Lebanon do they not go home? Why did they even bother coming here in the first place?” http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/palestine-lebanon-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/palestine-lebanon-fl.php Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:21:00 PST The Israeli occupation authorities plan to demolish a renewable energy project; the only source of lighting for the houses in a Palestinian village near Hebron in the occupied West Bank. The people of Al-Mnazel received the demolition notice advising of Israel's plans to destroy the solar panels which provide them with electricity. http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/solar-destruction.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/solar-destruction.php Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:08:00 PST Voltaire’s wit often illuminates truth. Consider this revealing “thought” as expressed recently in Alert, the voice of AIPAC to its membership: “Some Americans believe if the Israelis strike Iran, the U.S. will pay the political costs anyway, so it would be better for the Americans to do the job and do it properly...” http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/israel-war-bc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/israel-war-bc.php Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:02:00 PST Three were arrested at Al-Walaja village Video of the event today at Al-Walaja- they were later released. Herzliya conference, action item to do for Brussels Air, Youth Conference in Palestine in July, and more. http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/palestine-conference-mq.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/palestine-conference-mq.php Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:04:00 PST Blogger Noam Sheizal writes that most Israeli voters have no interest in ending the country’s 44 year military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Sheizal, a columnist for +972, concludes in his FP essay, that the “peace camp” has disappeared from Israeli politics. http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/gershowitz-attacks-jw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/gershowitz-attacks-jw.php Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:24:00 PST I was initially perplexed by the Zionist influence within the NYC Quaker Seminary. Why would Zionists send their kids to a Quaker school? Clearly the discrepancy between Quaker pacifism and Zionist militancy must be blindingly obvious to every Jewish nationalist parent. http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/american-dilemma-ga.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/american-dilemma-ga.php Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:16:00 PST "In contrast to the murderous vision of violent extremists, we are joining with allies and partners around the world to build their capacity to promote security..." wrote U.S. President Barack Obama. The report details the United States’ own vision of violent extremism being directed against Iran. http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/violence-dollars-yaw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/violence-dollars-yaw.php Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:20:00 PST After a few hours of following the current debates between the Republican candidates for the presidency in America, I couldn't resist the thought that "democracy" had become much less than promoted. The U.S. is touted as having a great democracy. Everything good--either real or imagined—is supposedly due to their principles of democracy. http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/democracy-utopia-pb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/democracy-utopia-pb.php Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:43:00 PST American exceptionalism takes many forms. One of the least noticed is the preference for circumcision of boys. Other than among Muslims and Jews, for whom it is a religious or at least traditional requirement, cutting off part of the penis is alien to most other cultures and usually only carried out for medical, or occasionally aesthetic, reasons. http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/flap-circumcision.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/flap-circumcision.php Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:26:00 PST A photographer and two women were injured at this Friday’s anti-occupation demonstration in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. The civilians injured in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh today required hospitalization, according to reports from several eyewitness. http://salem-news.com/articles/february032012/west-bank-.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february032012/west-bank-.php Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:10:00 PST In a rough style, by way of unique footage, the brutal consequences of modern wars are exposed. The film also depicts the ability of women and children to handle their everyday life after a dramatic war experience. http://salem-news.com/articles/february032012/tears-gaza.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february032012/tears-gaza.php Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:53:00 PST As Rwanda has just celebrated hero's day I wanted to reflect on the good, the bad and the ugly of some of my experiences in the Presidential Guard and the RDA. The experiences I report on are mine and mine alone. I recall these incidents as I experienced them and all of the names remain the same. Sadly, most of the people in this curtain are either imprisoned or have been killed. http://salem-news.com/articles/february022012/rwanda-kagame-nm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february022012/rwanda-kagame-nm.php Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:11:00 PST Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was in London recently. Did anyone know? Did western media care? No. Not until reports appeared that Jewish community leaders cancelled a meeting with him after intervention by Israeli PM Netanyahu's office... http://salem-news.com/articles/february022012/palestine-leaders-sl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february022012/palestine-leaders-sl.php Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:10:00 PST All we care about is being good Zionists, good Israelis..” -Sheldon Adelson The 3rd richest American, he gave over 10 million dollars of his own money to support Gingrich’s campaign for the Republican nomination which saved Gingrich’s campaign according to the NY Times. http://salem-news.com/articles/february012012/gingrich-israel-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february012012/gingrich-israel-ae.php Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:28:00 PST There was a moment in a report from Tunisia by the BBC’s Wyre Davies when I could not stop myself laughing. I was listening to it on the Corporation’s generally excellent World Service radio. In my view this particular BBC service is generally excellent because unlike all other BBC news and current affairs outlets, radio and tv, it often reflects some of the truth about what is happening in and over Palestine that became Israel. http://salem-news.com/articles/february012012/no-israel-ah.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february012012/no-israel-ah.php Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:25:00 PST Yesterday, Amira Hass reported in Haaretz the Israeli military are now pumping “nausea-inducing chemicals,” into cars at a Bethlehem checkpoint, as a new search method. Hass describes the IDF first pulling over cars, then: ...once parked, the passengers are asked to roll up all windows, apart from that of the driver – and exit the vehicle. Two tubes are then connected to the vehicle... http://salem-news.com/articles/february012012/checkpoint-chemicals.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february012012/checkpoint-chemicals.php Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:51:00 PST In this interview, Alice Muhirwa, FDU-INKINGI Treasurer, describes the political climate in Rwanda from her experience in a political opposition group in Rwanda. She's faced challenges in supporting Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, a jailed political prisoner, whose trial continues to be postponed. http://salem-news.com/articles/january312012/alice-muhirwa-jf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january312012/alice-muhirwa-jf.php Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:27:00 PST We’ve been sent a transcription of PSC Chair Hugh Lanning’s speech at the PSC AGM where he tries to justify, on the grounds of racism, anti-Semitism and prejudice, the expulsion of ex-PSC Chair, Dr. Francis Clark-Lowes. To support the PSC EC decision Lanning quotes Dr. Clark-Lowes saying, "I said I was proud to call myself a Holocaust denier – it is the capital ‘H’ I believe we must question." http://salem-news.com/articles/january312012/gilad-psc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january312012/gilad-psc.php Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:23:00 PST