Since the beginning of this year, 31 Australians have been killed at work. Last year, 193 Australians were killed at work.… Go to Article

AUSTRALIA

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AL AQSA

Rivlin to meet with spiritual leaders of all faiths, call to maintain calm at Temple Mount
BDS

Religious group stops investing in Israel-linked firms

Imitating a candidate, Ryan goes to Israel and calls BDS an anti-Semitic ‘shenanigan’

As threats against BDS grow, it is time for ‘sumoud’ in activist communities

Letter from an Arab to a pro-BDS Jew

BDS: Brazilian province cancels cooperation agreement with Israel’s Mekorot

CHILDREN

IOF razes the only children’s garden of Za’atara

15-year-old Palestinian girl suffering harsh detention conditions

Israel ‘whitewashes’ investigation into killing of Palestinian teen, rights group says

DEMOLITION ANNEXATION

Israel to raze house of spy Tarabin in Beersheba

IOF razes the only children’s garden of Za’atara

Israel refuses to give building permits, demolishes homes under constnruction, Bethlehem

GAZA

IOF launches limited incursion into Gaza, razes lands

Israel bans entry of cement to Gaza, suspends projects worth $200m

Cycling4Gaza

In photos: Scavenging to live

United Arab Emirates funds mass wedding of Palestinians injured in Gaza wars

ISRAEL

Israel asks Bulgaria to hand over body of Omar Nayef

The logic of murder in Israel: A culture of impunity in full view of the entire world

Netanyahu Admits having Ordered Air Strikes against Syria

The end of history at Israel’s state archives

Israel and Saudi covert ties

KIDNAPPINGS RAIDS INVASIONS VIOLENCE

IOF carries out predawn arrest campaign

MEDIA HASBARA

Palestinian journalist arrested by IOF at Yitzhar checkpoint

MILITARY

Hebron shooting demands IDF investigation

Records of Israeli arms sales during Rwandan genocide to remain sealed

PA

Addameer: Detainees in PA jails exposed to torture by interrogators

NGO: PA forces mistreat 5 Palestinians in custody as court extends their detention

DFLP asks Hamdallah to be fair to Gaza in power crisis file

Abbas cuts PFLP allocations, Hamas condemns the decision

Hamas: Abbas’ suspension of PFLP funds is ‘political blackmail’

PLO cancels funds to DFLP faction, a day after targeting PFLP

Calls for investigation into $8bn stolen by Israel from Palestinian workers

The PLO factions and Mahmoud Abbas

Three Palestinians arrested smuggling statue of King Herod’s lover to Israel

PRISONERS

PPS: Palestinian detainees assaulted by soldiers during detention

Since October 2015, 5,000 Palestinians arrested

REFUGEES

Palestinian camp official killed in car bomb attack in Lebanon’s Sidon

RESOURCES

Israel gives initial approval for construction of West Bank power plant

Electricity Blackout in Gaza: Power Station Shuts Down, Plunging Palestinians into Darkness

The Palestinian farmers battling border restrictions and lack of water

RESISTANCE

Palestinian Universities condemn Israel’s violations of right to Education in Al-Quds University

SOLIDARITY

Cycling4Gaza

Against Balance: Thoughts on teaching Israel/Palestine

SETTLERS/SETTLEMENTS

Israeli army closes road before Palestinians to ease traffic for settlers

Watchdog: Israeli approval for settler units more than doubles in 2016

UN

As Palestinians head back to the UN, cause for concern in Israel

LEBANON/SYRIA

Senior Fatah official killed in Lebanon

Netanyahu Admits having Ordered Air Strikes against Syria… Go to Article

Humphrey mcQueens recent discussion of her contributions begins..

‘… with love and fury’ is how the environmentalist, feminist, historian, literary critic, poet and secretary of the Treaty Committee, Judith Wright, often signed off her letters to friends.

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Climate change and Hillary Clinton

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There aren’t a lot of certainties left in the US presidential race, but here’s one thing about which we can be absolutely sure: the Clinton camp really doesn’t like talking about fossil-fuel money.

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Australia-Cuba Friendship Society members and friends welcome ICAP representative, Yexenia Calzado to Brisbane. “Viva Cuba!”Meeting Notice
Australia-Cuba Friendship Society (Brisbane)

General Meeting
Tue April 12 6.30 pm
Qld Council of Unions
Level 2 16 Peel Street South Brisbane

Thanks to all who made the visit by Yexenia Calzado such a success and a special welcome to our new members.… Go to Article

Publisher’s Note: At a time when organisations are divesting worldwide from companies profiting from Israel’s abuses of Palestinian rights, the newly appointed director of ABC News, Gaven Morris, has ignored polite calls over the past month not to speak at the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce (AICC) in Brisbane.… Go to Article

For those interested in the debate about how the megafauna became extinct 10,000 years ago, the QU Brisscience have a talk on it this Monday evening (free).… Go to Article

See
2016 IPAN Conference Alice Springs Date Claimer.pdf… Go to Article

THE CLOUDLAND COLLECTIVE PRESENTS A DISCUSSION:

ENDING COAL AND
INEQUALITY…

The promise

of a green economy

Guest speakers include:

MURRAWAH JOHNSON: Wangan and Jagalingou traditional owner, activist and campaigner

JIM CASEY: Greens candidate for the federal seat of Grayndler & Secretary NSW Fire Brigades Union

DREW HUTTON: Campaigner, academic, current president of Lock the Gate Alliance

Sat 16 April 2pm Kurilpa Hall

174 Boundary St, West End

We are engaged in a battle for the future of the planet.

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Publisher’s Note: Not since revelations from Wikileaks and Edward Snowden has so much secret material been released to ordinary people around the world, this time about tax evasion of the super rich.… Go to Article

Publisher’s Note: In the lead up to Al Nakba, ‘the catastrophe’ where Palestinians were driven from their villages and land in 1948, it is worth looking at ‘On the Side of the Road’.… Go to Article

Well some are illegal, and some are not wanted,
Our work contract's out and we've got to move on;
Six hundred miles to that Mexico border,
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.

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100 years after reducing downtown Dublin to rubble the British Navy returned during last week’s Easter 1916 commemorations. Accompanied by U.S.… Go to Article

Please remember the public meeting organized by the Refugee Action Collective this Saturday. Those who come will be privileged to hear the personal testimony of those who have witnessed and worked in the offshore processing camps (or should we call them “torture centres”?)… Go to Article

CUBA TODAY
A public meeting with Yexenia Calzado, visiting representative from the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples
Wednesday April 6 6.30 pm
Qld Council of Unions
Level 2 16 Peel Street South Brisbane
Yexenia Calzado works in the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, the organisation that coordinates international solidarity with Cuba.… Go to Article

Is BDS working? Here is one point of view from a Rabbi in Illinois. Is this just more Israeli propaganda? Pictured here is the Red Spokes bike ride from Edinburgh to London to highlight the plight of children in Gaza.… Go to Article

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We invite you, your friends and family to join with Just Peace and people around Australia and the world on the Global Day of Action against Military Spending next thursday.

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