 Want an e-mail when there's something new? Join the e-mail news list today! action & events RNC Aftermath: Sentencing David McKay and Spinning the Media Press Release, CRASS, Thursday, May 21st, 2009 
After his first federal trial ended in a hung jury, Texan David McKay pled guilty in a second trial rather than letting his friend from Austin and co-defendant, Bradley Crowder, be manipulated into testifying against him. The FBI and local prosecutors have been counting on the press and public's RNC fatigue to be able to continue to present a clearly exaggerated, domestic security threat—a facade which nearly collapsed at McKay's first trial. Today, he was sentenced to four years in jail.  Tilsner Plans For Largest Art Crawl Event In Years! Pocket of Resistance to play Sat April 25th at 4pm! Nigel Parry, Friday, April 17th, 2009 
In the largest Art Crawl turn out for years, more than 50 artists will be opening, and eight bands will be performing in the Tilsner Artists' Cooperative during the 27th St. Paul Art Crawl, set to take place April 24th-26th in Lowertown St. Paul! Nigel Parry's band, Pocket of Resistance, will play Saturday April 25th at 4pm in the atrium of the Tilsner Artists' Cooperative at 300 Broadway St, St. Paul, MN 55101. Free shows! Free galleries! Operation Cast Lead: Israeli War Crimes and Genocide Nigel Parry, Friday, April 10th, 2009 
Israel's 27 December 2008 to 18 January 2009 attack on Gaza "Operation Cast Lead" was particularly vicious. 1,417 Palestinians were killed, including 926 civilians and 255 civilian police officers. 313 children and 116 women were killed. 236 combatants were killed, just 16.7% of the total. These are the facts of the matter. What we all do with them will determine how our future unfolds. Enough is enough. RNC policing: Nigel Parry on KFAI tonight with Coleen Rowley and Melissa Hill nigelparry.com, Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 
Nigel Parry will be appearing on KFAI's "Dart Gun Radio" show at midnight tonight (Tuesday April 7th) with Coleen Rowley and Melissa Hill, to talk about policing and the RNC. In May 2002, FBI Agent Coleen Rowley brought some of the pre 9-11 lapses to light and testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee about some of the endemic problems facing the FBI and the intelligence community. Rowley was one of three whistleblowers chosen as persons of the year by TIME magazine. Melissa Hill is a former Oregonian and current Minneapolis resident and grassroots activist. After being mass-arrested and seeing the police state in full force during the RNC, she became involved with the Community RNC Arrestee Support Structure (CRASS). Medical fact-finding mission on Gaza finds Israel was "creating terror without mercy" Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS), Monday, April 6th, 2009 
Five independent experts in the fields of forensic medicine, burns, medical response to crises and public health, from Germany, Denmark, South Africa and Spain, immediately answered the call and traveled to Gaza between 29 January and 5 February 2009 for their first fact-finding investigation, and then to hospitals in Egypt, where some of the most seriously wounded were being treated. American NLG Lawyers Release New Findings that Israel Violated International Law, US Domestic Law in Gaza National Lawyers Guild, Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 
New York – Israel violated international law by targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, misusing weapons, deliberately denying medical care to the wounded and attacking medical personnel, the National Lawyers Guild Delegation to Gaza said today upon releasing a 37 page report containing new evidence on the facts surrounding Israel’s 22 day military offensive in Gaza. The full report can be viewed at www.nlg.org. Photos are also available upon request. US Munitions Delivered to Israel Amnesty International, Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 
A massive consignment of US munitions was delivered to Israel in recent weeks, according to information revealed by Amnesty International. The organization received information that the Wehr Elbe, a German cargo ship, chartered and controlled by US Military Sealift Command, docked and unloaded its cargo of reportedly over 300 containers at the Israeli port of Ashdod, just 40km north of Gaza by road on 22 March. The German ship left the USA for Israel on 20 December, one week before the start of Israeli attacks on Gaza. It was carrying 989 containers of munitions, each of them 20 feet long with a total estimated net weight of 14,000 tons. |
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