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Hey, World! Let's create a nuclear-free future

2015-04-02T19:57:09.970Z

Join us for PEACE AND PLANET, a mobilization to build a nuclear-free, peaceful, just, and sustainable world! April 24-26, New York City. www.peaceandplanet.o.

The NPT Review Conference will convene at the UN headquarters, in New York City, from April 27 to May 22. These review conferences, held every five years, attract high-level national officials from around the world to discuss the treaty’s implementation.

To heighten the pressure for the abolition of nuclear weapons, nuclear disarmament groups are staging a Peace and Planet mobilization, in Manhattan, on the eve of the NPT review conference. Calling for a “Nuclear-Free, Peaceful, Just, and Sustainable World,” the mobilization involves an international conference (comprised of plenaries and workshops) on April 24 and 25, plus a culminating interfaith convocation, rally, march, and festival on April 26, 2015. Among the hundreds of endorsing organizations are many devoted to peace (Fellowship of Reconciliation, Pax Christi, Peace Action, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Veterans for Peace, and Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom), environmentalism (Earth Action, Friends of the Earth, and 350NYC), religion (Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, Unitarian Universalist UN Office, United Church of Christ, and United Methodist General Board of Church & Society), workers’ rights (New Jersey Industrial Union Council, United Electrical Workers, and Working Families Party), and human welfare (American Friends Service Committee and National Association of Social Workers).

See this article on antiwar.com
"Who Are the Nuclear Scofflaws?"
by Lawrence Wittner
March 31, 2015
http://original.antiwar.com/lawrence-wittner/2015/03/30/who-are-the-nuclear-scofflaws/

Carbon as menace to atmosphere, causing climate crisis, global warming, severe weather

2014-09-06T18:42:46.841Z

CARBON is the first film in the Green World Rising Series. http://www.greenworldrising.org “Carbon” is narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, presented by Thom Hartm...

Al nakba - Palestinian catastrophe - dispossession of Palestine by Israel - P1

2014-07-30T23:11:41.013Z

Documentary on the forced exodus of Palestinians from their homeland, film produced by Al Jazeera in 2008, to mark 60 years since the founding of the state of Israel, underwritten by the United Nations, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

In the first video installment, the British role is detailed, over the course of 30 years of British rule, explaining how the Jewish population in Palestine rose from only 50,000 in 1908 to 500,000 by 1948. On 19 April 1936, the Palestinians launched a national strike to protest against mass Jewish immigration into the Palestinian homeland and what they saw as Britain’s alliance with the Zionist movement. The British responded with force. During the six months of the strike, over 190 Palestinians were killed and more than 800 wounded.

As the Palestinian revolt continued, Britain’s response hardened. Between 1936 and 1937, the British killed over 1,000 Palestinians; and committed crimes such as ethnic cleansing and collective punishment.

In the face of Jewish terrorist attacks designed to hasten the departure of the British, attacks which killed some 37 British military police, the British eventually capitulated, abandoning their mandate over Palestine and handing it over the the United Nations.

Arab, Israeli and Western intellectuals, historians and eye-witnesses provide the central narrative which is accompanied by archive material and documents, many only recently released for the first time.Editor’s note: Since first running on Al Jazeera Arabic in 2008, this series has won Arab and international awards and has been well received at festivals throughout the world.

further details:
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2013/05/20135612348774619.html

Al nakba - Palestinian catastrophe - dispossession of Palestine by Israel - P2

2014-07-30T22:54:16.983Z

Documentary on the forced exodus of Palestinians from their homeland, film produced by Al Jazeera in 2008, to mark 60 years since the founding of the state of Israel, underwritten by the United Nations, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

In the second video installment, how the United Nations made a complete hash of it, allowing hundreds of thousands --perhaps 700,000 people-- to be forced out of their homes and out of their homeland. On 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly met to devise a plan for the partition of Palestine. UN Resolution 181 divided Palestine into an Arab and a Jewish state, with Jerusalem as an international city. The Jewish state was granted 56 percent of the land, previously considered part of the Palestinian homeland. Israeli paramilitaries seized yet more land with impunity.

Swedish diplomat Count Folke Bernadotte was appointed as the UN Mediator in Palestine. On 17 September, 1948, the day following his UN report, Count Bernadotte was assassinated in Jerusalem, by members of the Jewish Stern gang.

Arab, Israeli and Western intellectuals, historians and eye-witnesses provide the central narrative which is accompanied by archive material and documents, many only recently released for the first time.Editor’s note: Since first running on Al Jazeera Arabic in 2008, this series has won Arab and international awards and has been well received at festivals throughout the world.

further details:
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2013/05/20135612348774619.html

U.N.: One child killed every hour in Gaza

2014-07-25T19:26:14.803Z

CNN's Paula Hancocks reports.

Death toll and other macabre statistics, as of two days ago, Wednesday morning, 23 July 2014. To be sure, more Palestinian civilians have been killed since.

Meanwhile, what is Kerry doing? The Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz reports Kerry has drafted a new ceasefire proposal and is waiting to hear back from Hamas via the Qatari and Turkish governments. Hamas has demanded the lifting of the seven-year blockade of Gaza as a condition for a ceasefire.