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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Police Kill Black Man With Barrage of Bullets Outside California Walmart

damn Diante Yarber was shot dead in his car in the parking lot. “This is the worst case of excessive force that I’ve ever seen,” the Yarber family’s lawyer said.

Video of Iran ‘morality police’ wrestling with woman sparks outrage | World news | The Guardian

Source: Video of Iran ‘morality police’ wrestling with woman sparks outrage | World news | The Guardian

Masoumeh Ebtekar, Iran’s vice-president for women’s affairs, denounced the treatment of the young woman on Twitter. “How could this treatment be justified?” she tweeted. “Even if they were insulted, should the police react like this? I categorically condemn this behaviour and will pursue the matter. This is a harsh and anti-religious treatment that no human deserves.”

Happy Nakba to the celebrative nation of independence today

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Today marks the 70th year for the state of Israel .our Nakba day is however, on the 15th of the coming month, May.

My daughter was asking me , isn’t this supposed to be on the 15th of May . This reminded me of our Islamic holidays, I thought . Why would Israel connect the independence with the Jewish calendar ?

The answer is quite simple within a world of colonization under the name of the Holy.

How much is it a coincidence that Israelis commemorate days of the holocaust a week before . As if the independence is god’s reward to the holocaust . A Jewish god that rewarded the poor Jewish people oppressed and murdered under Nazi Europe with the honey and milk land of Palestine .

How the Israelis today wipe off from their memories as well as current history the oppression and murders they conducted and…

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Playing at Pawell #atozchallenge #children #uganda

penned in moon dust

 puppets tell stories

 balls in the sky

we run, jump and play

color and listen

all part of our day

we learn from our teachers

enjoy a sweet

sing a new song

we’re children of Pawell

come join along

I can’t express what a joy these children are to teach and play with. I hope you can tell from the pictures that we love the Acholi.

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Thousands of Israelis, Palestinians mark Memorial Day together

After numerous venues backed out of hosting the ceremony and the High Court had to intervene to allow Palestinian participants to join, the crowd exceeded capacity. Right-wing Israelis protest outside.

Palestinian and Israeli women embrace during the alternative Memorial Day ceremony, April 17, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Palestinian and Israeli women embrace during the alternative Memorial Day ceremony, April 17, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Nearly 7,000 Israelis and Palestinians held an alternative Memorial Day ceremony in Tel Aviv Tuesday night, organized by the Bereaved Families Forum and Combatants for Peace.

The overflow crowd was far beyond the capacity organizers had prepared for, and a significant portion of the participants were forced to stand or sit on the ground. The Israeli-Palestinian memorial event was held outdoors in HaYarkon Park after the initial venue for the event, an auditorium in the city of Holon, backed out claiming that the event was “political.”

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Earlier on Tuesday, Israel’s High Court ordered Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman to reverse his decision to bar entry to Israel to 110 Palestinians who were scheduled to participate in the ceremony. Last year, the Israeli army also refused to grant permits to the Palestinian participants, so a parallel event was held in Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.

This year’s speakers included Adi Kahlon, whose father Dov was killed in a suicide bombing in Haifa; Dr. Amal Abu Sa’ad, whose husband, Yaqub Abu Alqian, was shot and killed by Israeli police in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran; Jihad Zriar, whose son, Alaa, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers in Hebron on his way to his grandfather’s house; and author David Grossman, whose son, Uri, was killed in the Second Lebanon War.

“Alaa was more than son to me, he was a friend to me. Together we shared the burdens of life,” Jihad Zriar said during his speech. “I miss you always, but especially today.”

Israeli author David Grossman speaks at the alternative Memorial Day ceremony, April 17, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Israeli author David Grossman speaks at the alternative Memorial Day ceremony, April 17, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Grossman urged the audience to ignore the protests and controversy that surrounded the alternative Memorial Day ceremony.

“There is a lot of noise and commotion around our ceremony, but we do not forget that above all, this is a ceremony of remembrance and communion,” he said. “The noise, even if it is present, is beyond us now, because at the heart of this evening there is a deep silence — the silence of the void created by loss.”

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Recently awarded the prestigious Israel Prize, Grossman added that he would donate half of his prize money to the Bereaved Families Forum and Elifelet, an organization that supports the children of asylum seekers.

MK Dov Khenin, seated among the attendees, stated, “This ceremony and its participants present an alternative to the policies of violence and evil. This is the true hope and opportunity for peace.”

Beyond the police cordon, however, right-wing demonstrators cursed at and called participants traitors and the descendants of Nazis. Several right-wing demonstrators attacked participants as they entered, throwing stones and bottles. Police arrested at least one right-wing protester.

As the ceremony’s speakers talked of loss and grief, and the desire for peace, the demonstrators’ chants and jeers could be heard in the distance.

North Korea: Mike Pompeo′s ′surprising′ empty-handed return from his secret trip | Americas| North and South American news impacting on Europe | DW | 18.04.2018

Source: North Korea: Mike Pompeo′s ′surprising′ empty-handed return from his secret trip | Americas| North and South American news impacting on Europe | DW | 18.04.2018

Pompeo did not come back with any of the three Americans that are still held captive in North Korean prisons. To me that raises the question of whether the status of these three prisoners was discussed. Did Pompeo try to bring any of them back? And will President Trump insist on their return before he meets with Kim Jong Un?

You think it should be a precondition for the US that the three American prisoners held in North Korea be returned before any talks take place between Trump and Kim?

I believe that it is impossible to negotiate with North Korea while there are American prisoners in the country. I believe releasing them in relatively good condition should be a precondition for talks. It is unclear how the administration is approaching this.