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NOVANEWS In This Issue... Israeli Knesset completes step 1 of 3 in criminalizing nonviolent economic pressure against the Occupation More Recent Articles Search The Only Democracy? Israeli Knesset completes step 1 of 3 in criminalizing nonviolent economic pressure against the Occupation   by Cecilie Surasky, crossposted from our sisterblog Muzzlewatch.com Real News Network, a professional online alternative to US corporate media, has this comprehensive report about a Knesset bill to criminalize Palestinian, international and Israeli efforts to promote and enact boycotts against Israel. Last week, it passed its “preliminary reading” in the Knesset, with two more rounds to go to become law. If passed, this stunning bill will mark the most severe and antidem...

NOVANEWS BROTHERS & SISTERS SALAM ALIKOUM DON'T BREAK YOUR FAST'S WITH HARAM DATES. IT IS HARAM TO OPEN OUR FASTS WITH ZIONIST 'ISRAELI' DATES DURING OUR HOLY MONTH OF RAMADAN. THE ZIONIST REGIME MAKES AN INCOME OF £80 MILLION FROM THE SALE OF HARAM DATES IN RAMADAN. SO, PLEASE DON'T OPEN YOUR FASTS WITH HARAM DATES. ZAZAKUM ALLA...

NOVANEWS   See for yourself: Watch our video of yesterday's TIAA-CREF meeting. Aaron Levitt and others on TIAA-CREF success.   Dear, Wow! I'm writing you from New York City where I just got back from the TIAA-CREF annual meeting and I'm still a bit overwhelmed by the experience. I can't tell you what it meant to have each one of you there with us in the room. 15,300 of you to be exact. Each of you signed a petition or a postcard, or secured hundreds of postcards in your own community. And you know what? That made all the difference --- to us, and to the leadership of TIAA-CREF. Yesterday we finally got a chance to call on TIAA-CREF, in person, to divest from companies like Caterpillar and Elbit that profit from Israel's occupation. As a fellow act...

NOVANEWS   Bulletin from the cause: Aid for Children In Gaza Go to Cause Posted By: Sophia Ritchie To: Members in Aid for Children In Gaza Urgent Action: Show your Support for Olympia Food Co-op!!! Friends please show your support for Olympia food co-op as they are getting bombarded with hate mail for their decision to implement a storewide boycott of Israeli goods...Please see below for how you can help! http://docs.google.com/View?id=dg2v7vjn_46f56bdghb Thank you, The MECA Staff Call to Action Support the cause. Be counted: You are receiving this email because you are a member of the cause Aid for Children In Gaza. To unsubscribe, leave the cause Causes Privacy Policy | Causes Address: PO Box 492, Berkeley, CA 94708 United States Tip: Ad...

NOVANEWS Ramadhan 2010: Don't break your fast with 'Israeli' datesThis Ramadhan, Check the Label: Don't break your fast with 'Israeli' dates Ramadhan is a time of year when we remember those who are less fortunate than ourselves. When we break our fasts with dates, it would be an affront to us all if the dates were the produce of illegal Zionist settlements built on land stolen from Palestinians.    Israeli produced Medjoul dates are grown in the Jordan Valley within illegal Israeli settlements. They form a large part of the agricultural produce from these settlements which are then exported all over the world. Buying these dates means that you are actually helping Israeli settlers steal Palestinian land. Israelis claim Palestinians are given jobs working on the land of these settlers and...

NOVANEWS Oxfordshire, 23 - 27 July 2010 www.peacenewscamp.info Join people from across the broad spectrum of the British peace movement for five days of exploration, celebration and empowerment! This year's themes this years themes include: feminism and peace; sharing our skills;  challenging the military; engaging with other movements; radicalising our lives; and debating nonviolence (see below for more info). Plus over 40 workshops, including: > 'What Can People Do, Where They Live, to Change the World?' with the Haringey Solidarity Group (www.haringey.org.uk) > 'After the NPT: What Now for Anti-Nuclear Campaigners?' with Kate Hudson (www.cnduk.org) and George Farebrother (http://worldcourtproject.org) > 'Gender Perspectives on Violence' with Cynthia Cockburn (www.cynthiacock...

NOVANEWS In this blog post to the highly informative Palestine Note website (http://palestinenote.com/) Merav Amir and Dalit Baum, both members of the Coalition of Women for Peace (http://coalitionofwomen.org/home/english), describe their project 'Who Profits from the Occupation?' (http://www.whoprofits.org/). The project collects specific information about the full range of economic involvement in the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Many people already engage in 'ethical shopping' practices by refusing to buy products made by settlers in the occupied territories. But Amir and Baum show that the economic penetration of the occupation goes much further than this relatively modest consumer market, including banks (like Dexia) that provide loans to local settlement governments, th...

NOVANEWS Dear friends: At the end of this month, my brother Bassam Aramin, the persistent Combatant for Peace, was meant to gather his few possessions and go with his family to Bradford University in the UK, to complete his masters in Conflict Resolution. I can not stress enough the importance of this journey for the Aramin family, after all the suffering they have been through. I believe it is necessary for them to go and a window of opportunity for a dramatic change towards a more hopeful future for bassam, Salwa and the kids. Unfortunately,  there is still £20,000 needed, despite considerable efforts to insure the daily needs of the family are met whilst in the UK. This is essential for the success in Bassam's studies. I think it shouldn't be too difficult to raise this amount, if all t...