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• Budrus: That Terrible Wall

  
  Jewbonics — Authority: 125
  Click here to view the embedded video. "For fifty years Ive been watering these olive trees. And now they want to uproot them? Then they have to uproot me, too." [Thanks Ziyaad ] Technorati Tags: apartheid wall , non-violence , occupation , Palestine , resistance , West Bank Related posts: Berlin ...
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• MATT DAMON PROVES THAT “SIZE ISN’T EVERYTHING”

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 565
  In the new CLINT EASTWOOD film, INVICTUS, MATT DAMON plays real-life rugby star FRANCOIS PIENAAR. EASTWOOD wasn’t exactly casting to type by putting DAMON in the role since the actor is of a completely different stature than that of the athlete. At the press conference for the film, DAMON talked about getting the ...
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• Syrian Ap…Ap…Apartheid!

  
  Z-Word Blog — Authority: 525
  No need to elaborate here. Just read DaveM.
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• Ginger jokes: Tesco should stand by its Christmas card

  
  News UK — Authority: 130
  Has the last bastion of juvenile humour crumbled? Tesco has withdrawn a Christmas card which pokes fun at ginger people, following a complaint from an irate mother of three red-headed children. Except, if you actually look at the card in question, which was stocked in York, it is not really poking fun at ginger ...
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• Message from Mandela: Invictus and the Other Diplomacy

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Warner Brothers recent Invictus tells the story of the most consequential game of rugby in history (South Africas defeat of New Zealand in the 1995 World Cup). The movie, directed by Clint Eastwood, also gives us a lens through which to view the potential of alternative diplomacy. Rugby had been a white mans ...
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• TEN DAYS LEFT TO BOYCOTT ISRAEL FOR CHRISTMAS

  
  Desertpeace — Authority: 560
  ( Ben Heine © Cartoons ) As Americans are in the annual frenzie of Christmas shopping, they must be reminded of those less fortunate. They must be reminded of those acrually living in the Land that Jesus called home and what has become of that land and its people. The Chrismas season is ...
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• Feminist Fightback Film Night this Thursday

  
  Uplift Magazine — Authority: 130
  This Thursday, the 17th of December, Feminist Fightback will be hosting a film night to entertain, educate and inform.On the screening schedule is ‘Apartheid is So Gay’ by The Pinky Show (above) and ‘Underground Londoners’, a look at cleaners on the underground organising to resist precarity and immigration ...
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• It’s the occupation, stupid / some thoughts on the Intifada’s 22ed anniversary

  
  Promised Land — Authority: 123
  Hebron, 1990 (photo: Nathan Alpert) Last week marked 22 years to the first Intifada, the Palestinian popular uprising which broke in Jebalia refugee camp following a deadly car accident near the Erez Crossing on December 8th, 1987. Surprisingly enough, I hardly saw any mention of this on the Israeli media. It is ...
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• Invictus conquers with an uplifting tale

  
  Calvin Palmer's Weblog — Authority: 127
  By Calvin Palmer The unifying role of sport is the theme of director Clint Eastwood’s latest film Invictus , starring Morgan Freeman in the role of South Africa’s president, Nelson Mandela. The story tells of Mandela’s bid to unite a country after the decades of Apartheid kept blacks and coloreds apart from ...
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• Bil’in residents call for the release of the village’s prisoners in a weekly Friday demonstration

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 522
  Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements 11 December 2009 Approximately 150 Palestinian, international and Israeli activists gathered in Bil’in today, marking the 22nd anniversary of the start of the First Intifada and calling for the release of the village’s prisoners arrested for their ...
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• HAND-PICKED BY MANDELA, FREEMAN GIVES “INVICTUS” GRAVITAS

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 565
  In the new CLINT EASTWOOD directed film, INVICTUS, MORGAN FREEMAN plays NELSON MANDELA who, in 1995, enlisted the help of a rugby team to reunite an apartheid-torn South Africa. At the recent press conference for the film, FREEMAN talked about how it was MANDELA, himself, who chose him for the role. Listen in below: ...
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• Israel arrests Palestinian barrier protest leader

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 522
  Ben Hubbard | Washington Post 11 December 2009 RAMALLAH, West Bank — A leader of the most persistent Palestinian protest movement against Israel’s West Bank separation barrier was asleep in his home when troops broke down his door and arrested him. Supporters of Abdullah Abu Rahmeh, a 38-year-old teacher, ...
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• Invictus

  
  BrandonFibbs.com — Authority: 120
  There is only one word needed to sum up Invictus — underwhelming. While the historically significant story is certainly worthy of a film adaptation, Invictus is little more than a clichéd sports drama, and a rather stale one at that. We open on February 11, 1990, the day Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) was ...
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• Invictus

  
  Movie Mom — Authority: 505
  Clint Eastwood tells the story of South Africas triumph in the 1995 Rugby World Cup, the first World Cup after the end of apartheid. The title, "Invictus" comes from the inspiring poem that Nelson Mandela shared with the teams captain, Francois Pienaar. The movie is respectful, dignified, and a little dull. ...
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• Release Bil’in popular leader Abdallah Abu Rahmah

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 522
  10 December 2009 As part of a recent escalation of political arrests in Bil’in, Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a school teacher and coordinator of the Bil’in Popular Committee was arrested by Israeli soldiers. Abdallah Abu Rahmah (right) with Ela Bhatt, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter, Fernando H Cardoso, Mary Robinson and ...
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• Bil’in leader Abdallah Abu Rahmah arrested during military night raid

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 522
  Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 10 December 2009 Abdallah Abu Rahmah (right) with Ela Bhatt, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter, Fernando H Cardoso, Mary Robinson and Gro Brundtland of the Elders during their visit to Bilin As part of a recent escalation of political arrests in Bil’in, Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a ...
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• Ban the old South African flag

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 527
  When Springbok captain John Smit explained to those who had waived the old flags in the faces of him and his team that the players were aware of the fact that they were playing for all South Africans not just a minority, he captured right there the essence of the debate.The old South African flag [...]
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• 2010 World Cup: “Cheating and Violence Virtually Inevitable” says RW Johnson

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 505
  Alert! The London Review of Books ‘ resident SouthAfro-pessimist, RW Johnson, has struck again - this time in a lengthy piece on the 2010 FIFA World Cup that will be published in the review’s 17 December edition. In Africa, soccer has “collapsed under the weight of corruption”, says the author of South ...
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• Ann Donald’s Best Fiction Reads 2009

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 505
  Topping Ann Donald’s list of best fiction reads for 2009, as “fiction book of the year”, is Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize winning Wolf Hall . Congratulations to the four local authors on the list, among them BOOK SA bloggers Margie Orford and Kevin Bloom . But I want to write about the books that I ...
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• Living by the Gate From Hell

  
  Sabbah — Authority: 141
  A Portrait of Nonviolent Resistance in One Palestinian Village By Ellen Cantarow* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz At no time since its 1967 West Bank occupation have Israels seizures of Palestinian land and water resources seemed as shocking as the ones attending its construction of "the wall," begun in ...
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