Daily Archives: July 19, 2014

Apartheid, Palestine

Palestinian intellectuals demand ‘unity’ in actions, not words

Resistance might mean different things to different people. But Resistance, in its many forms, is taking place all over Palestine.

Over recent years, two television programs have dominated Palestinian TV during Ramadan. The Syrian drama series ‘Bab al-Hara’ (‘Gate of the Neighbourhood’) takes centre stage in households across the country after the iftar meal, with its tales of Syrian life under French imperial rule.

via Palestinian intellectuals demand ‘unity’ in actions, not words.

Fail!, Palestine, racism, terrorism

List of names of the 321 Palestinians killed between the 8th and the 19th of July

Killed Saturday 19/7

1. Yahia Bassam as-Serry, 20, Khan Younis.

2. Mohammad Bassam as-Serry, 17, Khan Younis.

3. Mahmoud Rida Salhiyya, 56, Khan Younis.

4. Mustafa Rida Salhiyya, 21, Khan Younis.

5. Mohammad Mustafa Salhiyya, 22, Khan Younis.

6. Waseem Rida Salhiyya, 15, Khan Younis.

7. Ibrahim Jamal Kamal Nassr, 13, Khan Younis.

8. Rushdi Khaled Nassr, 24, Khan Younis.

9. Mohammad Awad Faris Nassr, 25, Khan Younis.

10. Ahmad Mahmoud Hasan Aziz, 34, Beit Hanoun

11. Sa’id Ali Issa, 30, Juhr ed-Deek, Central Gaza.

12. Raed Walid Laqan, 27, Khan Younis.

13. Mohammad Jihad al-Qara’, 29, Khan Younis.

14. Rafat Ali Bahloul, 36, Khan Younis.

15. Bilal Ismail Abu Doqqa, 33, Khan Younis.

16. Mohammad Ismail Sammour, 21, Khan Younis.

17. Eyad Ismael ar-Raqab, 26, Khan Younis.

18. Mohammad Atallah Odah Sa’adat, 25, Beit Hanoun.

19. Mohammad Rafiq ar-Rohhal, 22, Beit Lahia.

20. Mohammad Ziad ar-Rohhal, 6, Beit Lahia.

21. Mohammad Ahmad Abu Za’nouna, 37, Gaza City.

via List of names of the 321 Palestinians killed between the 8th and the 19th of July.

animal rights, Anti-Humane

nedhamson’s Comment on H.R. 5058: To amend the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros … – POPVOX.com

OpposeH.R. 5058: To amend the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act to provide for State and tribal management and protection of wild free-roaming horses and burros, and for other purposes.

Dear Rep. Brad Wenstrup:

I oppose The Wild Horse Oversight Act because… it would allow some states to cull herds and sell to slaughter houses to ship burro and horse meat to China and elsewhere. Both animals were introduced here from elsewhere but are now part and parcel of our nation culture – not to be treated as state by state issue.

via nedhamson’s Comment on H.R. 5058: To amend the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros … – POPVOX.com.

animal rights, Anti-Humane

Text of H.R. 5058: Wild Horse Oversight Act (Introduced version) – GovTrack.us

Text of H.R. 5058: Wild Horse Oversight Act (Introduced version) – GovTrack.us

Except as provided by subsection (b), at the request of the legislature or Governor of a State or the governing body of a federally recognized Indian tribe, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall allow the State or federally recognized Indian tribe to assume all management and protection functions under this Act regarding wild free-roaming horses and burros on land within the boundaries of the State or federally recognized Indian tribe. After a State or federally recognized Indian tribe assumes such functions, wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be managed by the State or federally recognized Indian tribe in accordance with this Act and in the same manner as any other non-federally regulated species regarding functions not specified in this Act.

 

Will this endanger wild horses and burros if states and reservations take over management and protection? My assumption is that it would – bot horse folks will know better.

 

Introduced by three Republicans

via Text of H.R. 5058: Wild Horse Oversight Act (Introduced version) – GovTrack.us.