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NOVANEWS   Dear Friends I wrote this article after 9 of us were arested when we tride to rebuild the homs of El-Arakiv after the entire vlage was demolishd again. In this time the police arive again and arested 4 people from El-Arakiv and 5 Humanrihgts activists that tride to help them to rebuild their homs. One humanrihgts activist was arested earlier that day. I wish you could ask your Forign ministers to interfir in this grave Humanrights violation by the Israeli governament against deafendles sitizens that their only crime is that they are Bedouins in the Jewish state. I wish you ask them to chek the resist role of the JNF in this case. All the best to you and thank you! Amos Gvirtz         Martin Luther King Junior and the Struggle of the Bedouins By Amos Gvirtz     On Monday January ...

READ ABOUT THE SCAM INVOLVING CASHBACK REQUESTS APPEARING ON YOUR RECEIPTS. CHECK THEM BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE TILL.  CHECK YOUR RECEIPTS BEFORE LEAVING THE CHECK-OUT I bought a bunch of stuff, over £150, & I glanced at my receipt as the cashier was handing me the bags. I saw a cash-back of £40. I told her I didn't request a cash back & to delete it. She said I'd have to take the £40 because she couldn't delete it. I told Her to call a supervisor. Supervisor came & said I'd have to take it. I said NO! Taking the £40 would be a cash advance against my Credit card & I wasn't paying interest on a cash advance!!!!! If they couldn't delete it then they would have to delete the whole order. So the supervisor had the cashier delete the who...

NOVANEWS Anti-Muslim brainwashing–SAY ‘NO TO RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY’ by crescentandcross       At least seven times today I heard TV newscasters refer to Muslim as Islamic extremists. The amount and level of this kind of fraudulent suggestiveness has been increasing almost daily. I call it fraudulent because people hearing this mix of Muslim with extremist repeated often enough become brainwashed into thinking that all Muslims are extremists. The reference to Islamic extremists is frequently made on Fox News by Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. A headline on MMTV asserts that “O’Reilly Supports Rep. King’s Islamic Extremism Hearings: ‘You’ve Got to Get a Handle on It.’” The language of Islamic extremist has infected the US congress. For years, since he was on CNN, Glenn Beck has mad...

NOVANEWS Dear All,   Today in Washington, D.C. Ahava boycott activists will stage a protest at a local retailer, and in the week surrounding Valentine's Day, activists will be telling online retailers to "have a heart" and stop carrying Ahava. There will be Stolen Beauty online action parties in New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. At the request of Stop the Wall, we are dedicating this work to the memory of Jawaher Abu Rahmah, a Palestinian woman from the village of Bi’lin who, at a weekly anti-wall demonstration, was killed by tear gas manufactured by U.S.-based company Combined Systems, Inc. (CSI).  Will you join us in honoring Jawaher by taking action for boycott and divestment?   Our partners at Adalah-NY have started a letter-writing drive, calling on CSI and the U.S. gover...

NOVANEWS   ‘ADL is the last place American police, lawyers or government—or the American people—should go for lessons in civility’ By Rev. Ted Pike The day after Rep. Giffords was shot, the Jewish Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center did their best to blame conservative rhetoric for the tragedy. (See, AZ Shooting: Right Wing Protects ADL/SPLC Accusers) After the dust settled, there was no evidence that right-wing “incivility” motivated the deranged gunman. Failing to besmirch Christians and conservatives, ADL is now trying the other extreme: posturing as America’s teacher on “civility in public discourse.” In his article, “Leaders Must Set a New Tone for Civility in America,” ADL’s national director, Abe Foxman, intones: In recent years, the Anti-Defamation League repeat...

NOVANEWS   Executive Response to Criticism is to Restrict Democracy Further Last summer, 13 of us (subsequently 27) sent a letter to Palestine Solidarity Campaign Executive. It is copied below*: As can be seen, we raised issues concerning the way PSC was being run. In the Annual Report of PSC Executive, which has just been sent (to some people) it states that ‘in August a group of 13 people made unsubstantiated allegations to the EC.’   A cursory reading of the Open Letter demonstrates that it wasn’t alleging anything, merely asking questions. Having the audacity to raise such questions was, however, deemed an act of lese majeste. PSC Executive and its Socialist Action/Communist League components, don’t do accountability and transparency.   A Stalinist Charge Sheet from ex-Trotskyists The...

NOVANEWS Posted in British politics, Middle East, Palestine, Video, civil liberties and protest, media propaganda and culture, revolution, trade unions by hasta_la_victoria February 8, 2011 Tags: gaza protestors, islamophobia, Palestine, PSC, zionism war crimes The following resolution was vociferously opposed by the Executive Committee of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign at its AGM on 22 January. Since a resolution containing many of the same points had been passed virtually unanimously at the Stop the War conference last year, this came as rather a surprise to the comrade who moved the motion. We will be writing in more detail about this soon, but in the meantime, a few of the arguments posed against the resolution went like this: - The list of actions is ‘too prescriptive’; we can’t ag...

NOVANEWS   On Wednesday MPs's voted on whether or not to demand a rethink of the government's plans to sell our forests. You can see how your MP voted below. If you're not sure who your MP is you can check on the Parliament website here. This vote was not binding - it was an "opposition day debate" . That means although the government won the vote, it was a massive success for us. We caused a real stir, put MPs under pressure, and persuaded a good number of government MPs to rebel against the government line. If we keep going like this we can win the campaign! The next time MPs vote on selling off our woodland, it could be a make or break vote to pave the way for privatisation. We need to keep the spotlight on every one of them. Please call or email your MP to let them know you are wa...

NOVANEWS On last Tuesday’s BBC Newsnight, the leader of the “English Defence League”, Stephen Lennon, was given a national platform to tell us how afraid he is of “Muslim Pimping Gangs” and “inams”. After his admittance of quite recently not knowing how to switch a computer on, I am thinking perhaps it is Mr. Lennon we should be worried about. The argument for giving such far-right wing groups such prominence in the media is one of freedom of expression, but my interpretation of “freedom of expression” has never included inciting hatred against sections of society based on their race or religion. Another argument is that racist people appearing on television will expose themselves as exactly that, but we cannot ignore the fact that the BNP described Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Ti...

NOVANEWS Dear All    The email below was sent to me by an Egyptian friend. Urge Vodaphone now to join with the people of Egypt. Click on the link below: Hi there, What is with Vodafone? First they shut off the internet and mobile phone service to the Egyptian people as they peacefully protested for true democracy and an end to decade of tyranny, and now they're sending out text messages in support of their oppressor to their Egyptian customers. They say that they were forced to take both actions and are claiming innocence - but surely they knew of the terms of the contractual arrangement when they started doing business with the regime. Billions of dollars in profit later, and a PR machine in overdrive, they are now trying to convince the world that they had no choice. Sorry Vodafone -...