Palestine solidarity protesters burned their TV licences in front of BBC Bristol鈥檚 HQ on July 28 in protest at the broadcaster鈥檚 biased coverage of Israel鈥檚 onslaught on Gaza.
Peace activists began their occupation of BBC Bristol鈥檚 grounds on July 23.
The act of civil disobedience came after campaigners handed a dossier to BBC bosses providing examples of biased reporting of Israel鈥檚 war on the Palestinians.
It came after the BBC issued 鈥渘otice to quit鈥 letters in past couple opf days threatening court action if the protesters don鈥檛 end their 鈥渋llegal occupation.鈥
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The Brazilian government recalled its ambassador from Tel Aviv on July 23, the Wall Street Journal said the next day. Brazil condemned the "disproportionate use of force" by Israel in a military offensive in Gaza.
Brazil's foreign ministry said in aJuly 23 statement: "We strongly condemn the disproportionate use of force by Israel in the Gaza Strip, from which large numbers of civilian casualties, including women and children, resulted.
"The Brazilian government considers unacceptable the escalation of violence between Israel and Palestine," it added.
For the second consecutive Saturday, a huge demonstration took place for Gaza in London on 26 July.
After the June summit meeting of the G77 + China leaders held in Santa Cruz, the Bolivian government and the Bolivian Workers Central (COB) sponsored an 鈥淎nti-Imperialist International Trade Union Conference鈥 in Cochabamba over June 30-July 2.
The conference was attended by representatives of unions in 22 countries who are affiliated with the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU).
Everyone should be concerned about the June 30 US Supreme Court鈥檚 ruling in favour of retail arts and crafts company Hobby Lobby.
Along with two other family-owned firms, it sued the federal government, saying they should not have to pay for health insurance plans covering four contraceptives to which they object on religious grounds.
The decision represents an expansion of corporations鈥 rights at the expense of workers, health care provision and women鈥檚 reproductive health choice 鈥 all in the name of protecting religious freedom.
Citizen Strangers: Palestinians & the Birth of Israel's Liberal Settler State
Shira Robinson
Standford University Press, 2013
352pp, US$24.95
If anyone still believes that the apartheid label applies only to Israel鈥檚 occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, and not to present-day Israel itself, they need only read Shira Robinson鈥檚 Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel鈥檚 Liberal Settler State to be disabused of the notion.
British Prime Minister David Cameron may want a politics-free Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, but campaigners have railed against sponsors鈥 links to deaths and human rights abuses at home and abroad.
The Tory PM told business leaders on a jaunt to Glasgow University on July 23 that he wanted to steer clear of politics as the clock wound down to the games opening ceremony. A crowd of protesters thronged outside the university library where he spoke, with picketers ranging from the Radical Independence Coalition to Our People鈥檚 National Health Service.
The city of Detroit has been declared bankrupt, reeling from the closure of many auto plants and related enterprises that were once the backbone of the city.
City administrators are making working people bear the brunt of this severe economic crisis. They are driving many out of their homes and out of the city, while a small area is gentrified.
Whole neighbourhoods are disaster areas. Schools and community centres are being shut.
Now a new twist has been added -- cutting off water to the poorest, creating a humanitarian and health crisis.
Mississippi cuts $1,3 billion from schools, gives $1.3 billion to Nissan
鈥淪ince 2008, Mississippi has violated a constitutional mandate to adequately fund the state鈥檚 public K-12 schools,鈥 on July 23. 鈥淢ississippi has spent $648 less per student than it did in 2008. Currently, Mississippi has underfunded its public schools by at least [US]$1.3 billion.
During a recent visit to China, Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa signed an agreement to give China 1200 acres of land in the Trincomalee area on a long term lease for 鈥渄efence-related development鈥.
Part of this land is occupied by temples, mosques, schools and houses. The Tamilnet website said about 450 families will lose their homes. Those affected are mainly Tamil-speaking Muslims.
China鈥檚 plans for the area are unknown. However, Trincomalee鈥檚 renowned natural harbour, situated on the north-east coast of the island of Sri Lanka, was used as a naval base by the British.
Data Brainanta is one of quite a few Indonesian socialists who have been supporting the successful presidential bid of Joko Widodo, or 鈥淛okowi鈥 as he is popularly known.
So he was happy when Indonesia's electoral commission (KPU) finally confirmed on July 22 that Jokowi had defeated his sole contender, the sacked former Suharto-era general Prabowo Subianto, by 57% to 43% of the nearly 130 million direct votes cast on July 9.
One of the most important public debates over the future of Venezuela鈥檚 revolutionary process has opened up after the publication of a document by recently ousted planning minister Jorge Giordani.
In it, Giordani launched a series of scathing criticisms of the 鈥渘ew path鈥 he says the government has taken since former president Hugo Chavez died in March last year.
Giordani dropped the bombshell on June 18, a day after he was removed from the post he had held almost uninterruptedly since 1999.
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