Fwd: Protests around the Country - END THE SIEGE OF GAZA

From: Palestinian General Delegation

 

Subject: Protests around the Country - END THE SIEGE OF GAZA

 

 

END THE SIEGE OF GAZA

International Day of Action

Protest Saturday 26^th January

4-6pm

Opposite No10 Downing Street

Whitehall, London

 

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Protest in Leicester on Thursday the 24^th January

Candle lit Vigil - Leicester Town Centre

The Clock Tower- 5.30pm 6.30pm

 

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Stop Capital Punishment for Palestinians – Stop the Siege of Gaza

Thursday 24th January 2008 between 6:00pm to 8:30pm
Opposite Downing Street, London - Organised by GUPS

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Protest Israeli Crimes against Humanity in Glasgow

Friday 25 January, 5.30pm

George Square, Glasgow

 

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Vigil for Gaza in Brighton Saturday 26th January

Assemble at 1pm at the Clock Tower in Brighton

Please bring placards etc/Leaflets will be provided

Organised by Brighton and Hove PSC

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Protest  the Siege on Gaza Saturday  26^th in Swansea       

City Centre of Swansea, Front of the Castle

12pm

 

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End the Gaza siege protest, Sheffield Town Hall

Saturday 26th January 2008, 12 - 1pm.

 

This protest is part of an International day of action: including attempts by Israeli activists to break the blockade and take medical supplies into Gaza from Israel.

 

- Wednesday 30th January 4.45pm to 6pm - Candlelit vigil outside Sheffield Town Hall.

 

- Friday 1st February 4.30pm to 6pm - Candlelit vigil outside Sheffield railway station.

 

Please bring nightlights in jam jars to the evening vigils. 

 

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Letter in the Guardian Today

Situation in Gaza and the path to peace

Thursday January 24, 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,2245684,00.html

We refuse to remain silent on the brutal collective punishment being inflicted upon the Palestinian population (This brutal siege of Gaza can only breed violence, January 23), which has reached even more horrific levels following Israel's cutting of fuel supplies. The 1.5 million residents of Gaza, who were already suffering severe shortages of fuel, food and medicine, are facing a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in the middle of winter, without heat and lighting.

 

The only power station in Gaza is needed to provide electricity to deliver clean water and manage sewage. Hospitals are warning that patients' lives are at stake, with electricity needed to run essential machinery such as incubators, dialysis machines, and heart monitors, and essential surgery that will have to be cancelled.

Article 33 of the fourth Geneva convention states that "no protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally committed". The British government, as a signatory to the convention, has a responsibility to ensure that it is upheld. We urge the government immediately to condemn the collective punishment of the Gazan population and ensure that the Israeli government's violations of the fourth Geneva convention end.

A protest to call for an end to the Gaza siege is being held on Saturday opposite 10 Downing Street.

Miriam Margolyes, Maxine Peake, Dr Karma Nabulsi, Tony Benn, Victoria Brittain, Lord David Steel, Bella Freud, Samuel West, Juliet Stevenson, Simon McBurney, John Keane, Charles Glass as well as Alexei Sayle, Kika Markham and Corin Redgrave

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From the Guardian Leader

'If you bottle up 1.5 million people in a territory 25 miles long and six miles wide, and turn off the lights, as Israel has done in Gaza, the bottle will burst. This is what happened yesterday when tens of thousands of Gazans poured into Egypt to buy food, fuel and supplies after militants destroyed two-thirds of the wall separating the Gaza Strip from Egypt. It was the biggest jail break in history.'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2245703,00.html

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***PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY***

Please urgently write to your MP to sign the EDMs on Gaza below – new EDMs tabled this week

 

 

 

EDM 732 -  HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN GAZA  (No. 2) 21.01.2008
   
 Corbyn, Jeremy   13 signatures  
  
That this House is appalled at the continued and wholly preventable  humanitarian crisis in Gaza; unreservedly condemns Israel for cutting off  fuel supplies and preventing other vital supplies entering from Israel;  and calls upon the Government to make all efforts to ensure that Israel  lifts the siege with immediate effect.
  

EDM  698  -  HOSPITAL SUPPLIES IN  GAZA 15.01.2008
   
McDonnell, John   44 signatures  
        
That this House notes with extreme concern  the report from the Ministry of Health in Gaza that as a result of  the Israeli blockade supplies of food and medical equipment are  nearly exhausted in the hospitals and clinics in Gaza; and calls  upon the Government to take every action possible to ensure the  lifting of the blockade and the supply of food and medical equipment  to Gaza.  
  

  
EDM 624   -  CIVILIANS IN  GAZA 18.12.2007
       
Corbyn, Jeremy   36 signatures   
       
That this House notes the financial  pledges of around £7.4 billion from 90 countries to be made to  Palestine in the follow-up to the formal re-launch of the  Israeli-Palestinian negotiations last month in Annapolis;  notes with considerable alarm Israel's overnight extrajudicial  killings of 12 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and West Bank in  a series of air attacks, bringing the number of extrajudicial  killing operations launched since September 2000 to at least  256, killing at least 612 Palestinians; and calls upon the  Government to apply what pressure it can to ensure Israel  ceases these extrajudicial killings which have become symbolic  of its disregard for international law in Articles 6 and 4 of  the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.  

   
 EDM 305  -  HUMANITARIAN  SITUATION IN GAZA 19.11.2007

 Love, Andrew   90 signatures   
        
That this House expresses grave  concern about the humanitarian situation in Gaza and the decision by the State of Israel to declare it a hostile  entity; notes that this further isolated the 1.5 million  Palestinian residents of this occupied territory, 1.1 million  of whom have to survive on food handouts; further notes that  shortages of medical supplies are reported by the United  Nations; considers that future Israeli measures could involve  cutting off crucial supplies including food, fuel, electricity  and water; believes that such measures would not deter the  firing of Kassam rockets but would have a devastating effect  on the humanitarian situation in Gaza with a detrimental  impact on public health; further believes that the continued political and economic isolation of Gaza will jeopardise the prospects for a lasting peace and for any future negotiations  to be credible and successful; and therefore calls upon the UK  Government to make the strongest possible representations to  the Israeli government that such measures are wholly  unacceptable and tantamount to collective punishment and a  breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention.  

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Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Box BM PSA
London
WC1N 3XX

Tel:   020 7700 6192
Fax:  020 7609 7779

Email: info@palestinecampaign.org

Web: www.palestinecampaign.org

 

 

   

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A good fight with your spouse could be good for the health, a new study has found.

A fight with your spouse could be good for health: study

Wed Jan 23, 6:36 PM ET

Couples who suppressed their anger have a mortality rate twice as high as those in which at least one partner stands up for themselves, according to the study which tracked 192 US couples for 17 years.

"When couples get together, one of their main jobs is reconciliation about conflict," said lead author Ernest Harburg, an emeritus professor with the University of Michigan.

"The key matter is, when the conflict happens, how do you resolve it?" he said.

"When you don't, if you bury your anger, and you brood on it and you resent the other person or the attacker, and you don't try to resolve the problem, then you're in trouble."

Previous studies have shown that suppressing anger increases stress-related illnesses like heart disease and high blood pressure.

This study looks at how suppressed anger and the resulting buildup of resentment in a marriage affects overall mortality rates.

It adjusted for age, smoking, weight, blood pressure, bronchial problems, breathing, and cardiovascular risk.

Harburg and his colleagues used a questionnaire to determine how the spouses responded to behaviour that they perceived as unfair.

Both spouses suppressed their anger in 26 of the couples while at least one spouse expressed their anger in the remaining 166 couples.

At least one death was recorded in half the couples who suppressed their anger, whereas only 26 percent of the other couples suffered from the death of a spouse.

And the anger-supressing couples were nearly five times more likely to both be dead 17 years later, the study found.

Harburg cautioned that the results are still preliminary and do not constitute a representative sample of current marital relationships.

The study period covers couples interviewed in 1971 and measures survival through 1988.

It was carried out in a small, predominantly white and middle class town in Michigan and most of the women were "housewives" born before the sexual revolution.

An upcoming analysis of survival rates 30 years later will yield more reliable results, Harburg said.

The paper will appear in the January edition of the Journal of Family Communication.

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Bush Changes Excuse for Iran Rhetoric After No Nukes Proven

Shortly after his trip to Israel, Bush continues to agitate the Middle East Situation"Bush's harsh rhetoric on Iran has shown few signs of softening since the National Intelligence Estimate concluded that Iran halted its nuclear weapons three years ago."

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The Truth about Iran's Nuclear Program

Scott Ritter, a former weapons inspector, explains the state of Iran's weapons program, and how absurd Bush's charges against Iran are, utterly ignoring both recent history and Iran's own history. This is a must see! Do not be deceived by Bush's propaganda! The fools in charge don't even know the difference between Suni and Shia Muslims.

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U.S. Dominance in Science at Risk, Report Says

The United States remains the world leader in scientific and technological innovation, but its dominance is threatened by economic development elsewhere, particularly in Asia, the National Science Board said on Tuesday in its biennial report on science and engineering. The country’s position is especially delicate, the agency said, given its reliance on foreign-born workers to fill technical jobs.The board is the oversight agency for the National Science Foundation, the nation’s leading source of funds for basic research in the physical sciences.The report, available at www.nsf.gov/statistics/indicators, recommends increased financing for basic research and greater “intellectual interchange” between researchers in academia and industry. The board also called for better efforts to track the globalization of manufacturing and services in the high-tech sector, and their implications for the American economy.

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War Propaganda: Iran boats ‘threatened US ships’

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US warship nearly shot at Iranians - Tonkin, Part Deux

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Fake sounding claims from unidentified Pentagon (Bush loyalists) officials say that Iran started to attack 3 US warships with 5 small boats, even warning the warships that they were about to explode, then turned around & left. This is the best Cheney, Israel, & the necons can cook up? Or will we see more war propaganda soon to come?

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France Breaks Iran Ties and Isolates Embassy

"France severed relations with Iran today, and each country prohibited the other’s diplomats from leaving."This is an important news that maybe the beginning ofa new road toward the war with Ira, specially after the fiasco of the Iran Nuclear program was called by the NIE last year.Is this the pretext Sarkozi will use to push for a war between Iran and the US?

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"Stackars den som aldrig får ha snopp ..."

Det är i badrummet det händer. I alla fall när man har barn. Eller så är jag bara för evigt fast i det anala stadiet.

Normalt sett reagerar jag inte på att det är svängdörrar till badrummet hemma, oavsett vem som är där, och vad toalettbesökaren gör. Det finns ingenting som ens liknar privata toalettbesök i vår familj.

Häromdagen sitter jag i godan ro på toaletten när Zion, 6 år kliver in ..
”Sitter du här?”
”Ja ..”
”Jaha, men, vad gör du?”
”Jag kissar ..”
”Jaha, men jag ska bajsa.”
”Ja, men får jag bara kissa klart? Jag skyndar mig ..”

Medan jag, mot alla kniprekommendationer, försöker påskynda mitt toalettbesök så börjar Zion plötsligt liksom kliva runt på mig. Han står på mina knän med magen över min ena axel och dyker med huvudet längs min rygg, ner mot toaletten.

”Vad håller du på med?”
”Jag försöker se din snippa”
”Varför då?”
”Jag vill se hur den ser ut innan jag tar den.”

Begynnande känsla av panik. Är det här normalt? Eller snackar vi tidiga tecken på något framtida trauma?
Han kanske bara inte förstått någonting av hur kroppen egentligen hänger ihop? Borde jag ringa någon?

”Men, vad ska du ha min snippa till?”
”Jag vill byta ut den mot min snopp ett tag.”
”Jaha .. Varför då? Är du inte nöjd med din snopp?”
”Jo, men jag vill bara veta hur det är att bara sitta ner och kissa.”
”Ja, men då kan du väl bara sätta dig ner och kissa?!”

Han klättrar ner. Tittar, något medlidsamt på mig ..

”Ja .. Fast då får ju inte du prova på hur det är att ha snopp.”

 

First Open Source Movie!

Hi Guys,

Elephant Dreams is the first Animated Open Source movie on the market. The movie can be found on their main site:

http://orange.blender.org/background

 

Where you can download the movie in many formats and languages, as well as the script, the music, and all the 3d models for the characters.

 

The next project that is in progress is the “The Peach” (so called OM2):

 

http://peach.blender.org/

 

This can be the beginning of a new “public domain” 3D animated movies.

 

I though you may like to watch it and/or download  the models to pay with them J

 

Cheers,

/Farhad