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NOVANEWS Event: Home, Identity and Citizenship – The Films of Philip Donnellan. What? You are invited to attend a screening of ‘Philip Donnellan’s The Colony’ (1964), and a discussion of an ongoing project to explore and promote the resources of the Philip Donnellan Archive. The Colony: This innovative TV documentary explores the experience of members of the Caribbean migrant community in Birmingham and the Midlands. The film allows its subjects space to candidly evaluate their reception in the UK and their relationships with home and other migrant workers. Controversial at the time of its original broadcast the film is an enduring and powerful document of a key moment in post-war British history. When? 6-8pm 30th June 2010 Where? Birmingham Library Theatre (http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/li...

NOVANEWS  Silo Nation. modernityblog Max Dunbar writes lucidly and in this particular piece takes on localism and the issue of immigration in a very persuasive fashion: "During the late 1990s and early 2000s there was a lot of buzz about an economics writer called Thomas Friedman. Friedman was the Pangloss of globalisation. His books and journalism constituted one breathless paean to global free markets - an endless parade of twenty-year-old dotcom millionaires interviewed in Singapore coffee houses. There’s one passage where he has his shoes shined by an elderly beggar woman, and then speculates on her pride at being able to contribute to the global economy - written in prose so self-satisfied that Francis Wheen wondered how the woman restrained herself from punching him in th...

NOVANEWS Setting the Truth Free To our supporters everywhere On 30th January 1972, a dark cloud descended upon this beautiful city. It stayed until last Tuesday, 15th June 2010 – over 38 years of a journey. It has now been lifted. It has been a long journey from the beginning of the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign to where we are today. Although we have always known the truth - now we can now rest easy - safe in the knowledge that our loved ones have been officially declared innocent by Lord Saville. From the early days of the campaign, it became apparent that we would need moral, political and financial support. With this in mind, we called upon you, the people of Derry, to help. We couldn’t have done this without you. Not only have we had strong community support and political support, we...

NOVANEWS The Troops Out Movement has taken time to consider the findings of the Saville Report of the Bloody Sunday killings by British Soldiers on 30th January 1972. Here are our comments. Bad Apples? TOM News 28/06/10 The Troops Out Movement comments on the publication of the Saville Report into Bloody Sunday The Troops Out Movement welcomes the pronouncement by British Prime Minister David Cameron that all those killed and wounded on Bloody Sunday were innocent. We are concerned however, that following the publication of the Saville Report one senior officer and a handful of soldiers from the British army’s Parachute Regiment are to carry the blame for the day’s atrocities. The blame for Bloody Sunday does not lie solely with Lt Col Derek Wilford and ‘a few bad apples’ on the ground tha...

NOVANEWS Pinkwashing: Listen to Elle Flanders, Cecilie Surasky on WBAI, Healing the Gay-Jewish Divide More Recent Articles Search MuzzleWatch Pinkwashing: Listen to Elle Flanders, Cecilie Surasky on WBAI, Healing the Gay-Jewish Divide New York’s WBAI Gay Pride 2010 programming: Listen to Jewish Voice for Peace Deputy Director Cecilie Surasky explain Pinkwashing and Brand Israel and Canadian filmmaker and activist Elle Flanders on efforts to censor “Israeli apartheid”. If you have been following the story, you know that Pride Toronto, the LGBTQI group that puts on Toronto’s annual gay pride parade, yielded to outside pressure to ban the words “Israeli apartheid”, and then, in the face of a huge backlash, rescinded the ban.  Proponents of the ban, led by Canadian Jewish groups, are now ...

NOVANEWS troopsoutmovement@btinternet.com   www.troopsoutmovement.com Newsletter July 2010 TOM COMMENT ON THE SAVILLE REPORT Bad Apples ?  The Troops Out Movement welcomes the pronouncement by British Prime Minister David Cameron that all those killed and wounded on Bloody Sunday were innocent. We are concerned however, that following the publication of the Saville Report one senior officer and a handful of soldiers from the British army’s Parachute Regiment are to carry the blame for the day’s atrocities. The blame for Bloody Sunday does not lie solely with Lt Col Derek Wilford and ‘a few bad apples’ on the ground that day. This is simplistic and absolves other senior figures of their responsibility and involvement in mass murder and its subsequent cover up. Why had a planned civil ri...

  NOVANEWS   Gillard reassures the Jews that she loves Israel to death Gillard and the Zionist lobby are completely separate (or not) Free Palestine in Warsaw’s Jewish area Gillard and Israel are like peas in a pod Punishing Palestinian independence How Rolling Stone should spread its wing Believe it, BDS is biting Divide and rule in Jerusalem Reporters are not supposed to thank the establishment at the end of the day Obama is a barrier to any kind of Middle East peace Gillard reassures the Jews that she loves Israel to death  28 Jun 2010 This week’s Australian Jewish News: Within the Jewish community, discussions about Julia Gillard often include the whispered question: “She might support Israel now, but have you heard what she was like in her university days?” S...

NOVANEWS الاستقواء الفلسطيني على لبنان قرأت قبل يومين مقالا يروي فيه فلسطيني أميركي معاناته لاستئجار منزل في لبنان، وكيف انه يتفوق قليلا على اقرانه ومواطنيه لانه يحمل جواز سفر اجنبيا. ويضيف متحدثا عن عنصرية اللبناني تجاه الفلسطيني اولا، ومن ثم تجاه العمال الاجانب. من حق الفلسطينيين ان ينعموا بحياة رفاه وطمأنينة لم تتوافر لهم في ارضهم ولا في الاراضي العربية حيث يقيمون، فحركتهم مقيدة في مصر، وقد عانوا الامرين في الاردن، وطردوا من الكويت، وهم مراقبون بدقة في سوريا التي تؤثر في حركتهم الجسدية والسياسية، اي انهم يعانون التمييز في معظم الدول العربية، لكنهم لا يتجرأون على الكلام عن اوضاعهم الا في لبنان، لا لان معاناتهم اكبر، وهذا صحيح نسبيا، بل لانهم يدرون في قرارة انفسهم انهم لن يحاسبوا على كلامهم وكتاباتهم، ولن يتم حجزهم في المطار او على الحدود البرية، لان في لبنان حرية لم يعرفوها ولم يعيشوها ...

NOVANEWS Sen. Kerry: McChrystal-Rolling Stone Ought Not Distract from ‘Mission at hand” June 22, 2010 by Michael Leon Sen. John F. Kerry What was that ‘mission at hand’ again? Kerry Statement On McChrystal Rolling Stone Profile “Give the President and his national security team the space to decide what is in the best interest of our mission”  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) released the following statement today in response to Rolling Stone’s profile of General McChrystal: “When General McChrystal called me this morning, I emphasized that my concern is our policy in Afghanistan and what it will take to be successful there. I respect General McChrystal as a soldier and always have. What’s most important is the 94,000 American troops serv...

NOVANEWS Obama Mistaken for a Pharaoh June 22, 2010 by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat Can Obama stick to his Cairo speech and deliver on his promises President Barack Obama and a statue of Pharaoh Akhenaten. Four months after he took office, and in what seemed as a spontaneous and creative initiative, President Obama flew to Cairo and delivered a direct appeal to the Islamic and Arabic world for a “new beginning” with the United States, acknowledging historical mistakes made over centuries in the name of culture and religion that he said are now overshadowed by shared interests. When President Obama- or the new king Tut, as some of the Egyptians liked to call him – called for a “new beginning” in U.S. relations with the Muslim world a year ago, he picked Cairo as the setting for his speech for what ...