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Hunger strike reinvigorates movement to close Guantánamo (Jake Olzen) - 18-may-2013

May 16, 2013 - In the aftermath of the Boston bombings, it is quite shocking that the renewed vigor to close Guantánamo has found the footing that it has. Even though many of the terrible myths started by the Bush administration’s War on Terror rhetoric linger, especially regarding the so-called "worst of the worst" at Guantánamo, Boston Globe columnist James Carroll recently added his name to the growing list of citizens and institutions calling for an end to America’s most infamous gulag. Carroll wrote that "if Americans want this spectacle to end — if they want to tell Congress and President Obama that Guantánamo must be shut down — now is the time for them to make their voices heard. But how?" The situation is stark and quickly deteriorating with more than 130 of the prison’s 166 detainees on hunger strike in protest of their treatment. ..

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Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (08 - 15 May 2013) (The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)) - 18-may-2013

May 16, 2013 - Summary: Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the oPt continued during the reporting period 09 – 15 May 2013. Shooting: During the reporting period, Israeli forces wounded 8 Palestinian civilians, including a child, in the West Bank; 4 civilians were wounded during Israeli dispersal of gatherings of Palestinian civilians protesting against Israeli forces' attacks in the Palestinian residential areas, while the 4 others, including 2 photojournalists, a paramedic and an 18-year-old boy, were wounded during peaceful protests against settlement activities and the annexation wall.On 10 May 2013, Israeli forces wounded a 21-year-old young man by a bullet in the right knee when Israeli forces moved into the southwest of Hebron...

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SF Pride CEO Resorts to Lies as Scandal Around Honoring Bradley Manning Continues (By: Kevin Gosztola) - 18-may-2013

May 16, 2013 - A member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Supervisor David Campos, has spoken out on the ongoing scandal involving San Francisco Pride’s decision to not honor Pfc. Bradley Manning as a Grand Marshal of the Pride parade. He has urged Pride to hold a public meeting before this year’s parade and celebration on June 30 instead of after. Pride CEO Earl Plante is also outright lying or, at best, deliberately misrepresenting Pride’s actions in interviews with media. These developments are the latest in a controversy that began back in April when the gay soldier, who disclosed information to WikiLeaks and is facing a US military prosecution, was announced as a Grand Marshal only to have Pride put out a statement retracting the award as a "mistake."...

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Coalition says investigations into campus Palestine activism chill student speech rights (by Alex Kane) - 18-may-2013

May 16, 2013 - Prolonged federal investigations of Palestine solidarity activism on campuses are chilling students’ constitutional rights to organize and speak out, a coalition of civil rights groups has charged in letters to the U.S. Department of Education (DOE). The civil rights and advocacy groups are asking the federal government to take a number of steps to remedy what they say is the problem of investigations that are having a chilling effect on students’ speech...

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Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (08 - 15 May 2013) (The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)) - 18-may-2013

May 16, 2013 - Summary: Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the oPt continued during the reporting period 09 – 15 May 2013. Shooting: During the reporting period, Israeli forces wounded 8 Palestinian civilians, including a child, in the West Bank; 4 civilians were wounded during Israeli dispersal of gatherings of Palestinian civilians protesting against Israeli forces' attacks in the Palestinian residential areas, while the 4 others, including 2 photojournalists, a paramedic and an 18-year-old boy, were wounded during peaceful protests against settlement activities and the annexation wall.On 10 May 2013, Israeli forces wounded a 21-year-old young man by a bullet in the right knee when Israeli forces moved into the southwest of Hebron... On the same day, 2 civilians were wounded when Israeli forces moved into Beit Ummar village, north of Hebron. On 14 May 2013, a child was wounded by a rubber-coated metal bullet in the right thigh when Israeli forces moved into al-Aroub refugee camp, north of Hebron. Israeli forces continued the systematic use of excessive force against peaceful protests organised by Palestinian, Israeli and international activists against the construction of the annexation wall and settlement activities in the West Bank. As a result, 4 Palestinian civilians, including 2 photojournalists, a paramedic and an 18-year-old boy, were wounded in Ramallah on 10 May 2013.

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Israel, Hawking and the Pressing Question of Boycott (By Ramzy Baroud) - 18-may-2013

May 16, 2013 -It is an event 'of cosmic proportions’, said one Palestinian academic, a befitting description regarding Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott an Israeli academic conference slated for next June. It was also a decisive moral call which was communicated on May 8 by Cambridge University, where Hawking is a professor. Hawking is a world-renowned cosmologist and physicist. His scientific work had the kind of impact that redefined or challenged entire areas of research from the theory of relativity, to quantum mechanics and other fields of study. This towering figure is also wheelchair-bound – suffering from complete physical paralyses caused by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) disease. For Hawking, however, such a painful fact seems like a mere side note in the face of his incredible contributions to science, ones that are comparable to only few men and women throughout history...

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Syria News - May 15, 2013 (Warning: Graphic Videos) (Local Coordination Committees of Syria + Videos) - 18-may-2013

May 15, 2013 - By the end of Wednesday the Local Coordination Committees were able to document 90 martyrs including 6 woman and 7 children: 28 martyrs were reported in Aleppo; 21 martyrs in Homs; 19 martyrs in Damascus and its suburbs; 7 martyrs in Hama; 5 martyrs in Idlib; 4 martyrs in Raqqa; 3 martyrs in Deir Ezzor; 2 martyrs in Daraa and one martyr in Qunaitra.The Committees have documented 321 shelling points in which shelling with warplanes was reported in 19 points where the fiercest were reported in Meliha, Raqqa and Halfaya; Cluster bombs were reported in 4 districts in each of Jandoul Square in Aleppo, Halfaya, Hama, Banyas and Haylan; Vacuum bombs were reported in Halfaya in Hama; surface to surface missiles were reported in Hayan in Aleppo; artillery shelling was reported in 103 points; Rocket shelling was reported in 98 points while mortar shells were reported in 95 points across Syrian cities and towns...

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“If you wanted to live, you left” (The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)) - 17-may-2013

May 15, 2013 - Today is Nakba Day, the day on which Palestinians mourn the loss of their homeland in 1948. 65 years ago, in May of 1948, Ghatheyya Mifleh al-Khawalda was a carefree 15-year-old girl who lived with her mother and sister in the village of al-Qastina in Mandatory Palestine, when they were forced, along with the rest of their village, to flee in the face of imminent threat from Jewish militias. For some time, the people of al-Qastina had received word of terrible attacks against other villages nearby, in which many had died. Fearing a similar fate, they left their home, and would never return to live there again. They became victims of what is referred to as the Nakba, meaning 'catastrophe’, the mass forced displacement of Palestinians from their homes in order to make way for citizens of the Jewish State of Israel which would be established soon afterwards...

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CAGEPRISONERS EXCLUSIVE: Fortress of War: how one Guantanamo prisoner survived a massacre (Moazzam Begg) - 17-may-2013

May 15, 2013 - "The rooms were filled with corpses of brothers, their blood, excrement and waste. The water began to slowly rise and we had nowhere to escape. Anyone injured who could not stand up just drowned, right in front of us." It was Ramadan 2001. The US had already begun its bombing campaign of Afghanistan against Al Qa’idah and the Taliban following the September 11 attacks two months earlier. In the Northern Afghan city of Kunduz several hundred foreign Taliban soldiers, who had been fighting against the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance for years became the target of US airstrikes. Under incessant carpet bombing, which included the use of 15,000-pound BLU-82 "daisy cutters" and after a promise that they would be allowed to return home, the Taliban fighters agreed to surrender. Amongst these men was Waleed al-Hajj. In one of the most powerful interviews ever published by CagePrisoners Moazzam Begg talks to former Guantanamo prisoner Waleed al-Hajj about the harrowing six days he spent surviving the ensuing Qala-i-Jangi massacre...

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