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Viva Palestina faced with 2,000 riot police in the port of Al-Arish! PROTEST AT ROCHESTER FEDERAL BUILDING IN RESPONSE!

Rochester Activists will congregate in front of the downtown Federal Building on Wednesday, January 6th at 4:30pm to demand the US government pressure the Egyptian government to let the Viva Palestina humanitarian convoy deliver its aid into the Gaza Strip and release any convoy members currently being detained.

Local Rochester Student Adriano Contreras is among a 500 strong humanitarian aid convoy destined for the Gaza Strip that is being confronted by Egyptian authorities. Reports claim 2,000 riot police have moved towards the Viva Palestina convoy's camp in the Egyptian Port city of Al-Arish. There are conflicting reports of why, but the police fired tear gas and there were confrontations between police and convoy members.

NBC affiliate video of the incident: http://video.ntvmsnbc.com/?407472#v0521680630840552411010570641180662101...

OIympic torch protests: challenging a deceitful tradition

In December, members of Genesee Valley Earth First! and others from Rochester participated in demonstrations against the Olympic torch relay in Canada. We did so because environmental destruction knows no borders, and the games have a sordid history of displacing the poor while legitimizing colonialism and authoritarianism. The torch relay itself was born in Nazi Germany to spotlight the fascist government’s supremacist propaganda.

J Street—Progressives or Propagandists?

Follow-up piece to previous J-street article

Film: "The Muslims I Know"

Friday, December 11 at 7:00 pm

At Rochester Community TV
21 Gorham Street, off of St. Paul St.

(Plenty of free parking.)

Admission is FREE

Venezuela: Anti-police impunity activist assassinated

* El Libertario, the Venezuelan anarchist newspaper, denounce the assassination of Mijail Martinez as the latest chapter in the Chavez government’s attack against base-level, autonomous, revolutionary and dissident organisations.

Emily interviewed at the G-20

Emily was interviewed at the G 20 by John Oliver from the Daily Show.

http://blip.tv/file/2893264

11/21: Garbage Doesn’t Exist: Empowerment and Transformation in Northern Haiti

Flying Squirrel Community Space
285 Clarissa St.
November 21
7pm-9pm
Free to the public, donations accepted

Traditional Native Leaders: Hydrofracking must be banned

Albany, NY—The Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force (HETF), the environmental branch of the traditional Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) government, issued a statement today calling on New York State to ban the permitting of natural gas drilling.

11/16 School of Assassins vigil in Rochester

Join us to remember the 20th anniversary of the murders of six Jesuits and two women in El Salvador by School of the Americas (SOA) graduates.

Israeli Peace Activist visits Rochester

Anna Baltzer, activist for peaceful resolution of Israeli-Palestine conflict visits Rochester

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