After 30.000 people have been murdered during almost 5 months of relentless and pitiless aerial bombardment and fire arms shot by invading troops, Gaza’s 2.3 million inhabitans are being pushed into famine. It seems that the zionist Israhelli leaders, their main partner (the United States of Agression) and its...
PATHS TO PEACE by Eduardo Carli de Moraes / Toronto and Ottawa, September 2014 While the People’s Social Forum was taking place in Ottawa, between August 21 and 24, the bloodbath in Gaza was still raging. Even mass demonstrations and rallies, held in several cities all around the world...
This is one of those historical moments where tragedy unfolds in massive scale and bloodshed spills into our feeds, filling up our waking hours and intruding in our nightmares. When my friends and flatmates Saliem and Wael told me about a massive demonstration in Amsterdam in solidarity with Gaza’s...
NOAM CHOMSKY Fateful Triangle – The United States, Israel & the Palestinians (South End Press Classics, 1999, 600 pgs) Foreword by Edward W. Said Download e-book (PDF, 2 mb): http://bit.ly/1rJLGK1 SHARE ON FACEBOOK or TUMBLR “Fateful Triangle may be the most ambitious book ever attempted on the conflict between Zionism and...
I’m deeply saddened and worried by the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza. One of the most densely populated areas in the planet, home for 1.8 million people, 56% of them under the age of 18, what’s happening in Gaza right now is a heartbreaking historical tragedy unfolding before our eyes. According...
“She is one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time. I was thinking about what makes her a really great writer, a really great person, and a really great rebel: someone who listens more than she talks. Someone who goes to find where the silence is, and tries...
“To kill oblivion with a little memory, we cover our chests with lead and hope.” SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS, Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN). In: ‘Our Word is Our Weapon: Selected Writings’, Foreword: José Saramago (Nobel Prize In Literature) Published by Seven Stories Press (New York, 2003, Pg. 100.) PART I...
CHAPTER III – THE CLASH BETWEEN OBLIVION AND MEMORY “…there once was a man named Zapata who rose up with his people and sang out: ‘Land and Freedom!’ The campesinos say that Zapata didn’t die, that he must return… They say that hope is also planted and harvested. They also...