In her first on-the-ground report from Palestine, Abby Martin gives a first-hand look into two of the most attacked refugee camps in the West Bank: Balata and Aida camps. With millions of displaced Palestinians around the world, hundreds of thousands are refugees in their own country—many have lived packed into these refugee camps after being ethnically cleansed from their villages just … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — For some of us who either have indigenous roots in the Americas going back to pre-Columbian times or have strong consciousness of colonisation and occupation, we know the terms occupy and occupation are loaded terms. On one hand, we can understand contemporary Americans attempting to appropriate a term of oppression in defiance of the ruling-class, the 1%.The … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — After the band Rage Against the Machine released their song “Freedom,” new generations became aware and sympathetic to the appeals for freedom of political prisoners, such as Leonard Peltier, Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM). Rage’s “Freedom” video notes: “On June 26th 1975, two unmarked cars drove onto Jumping Bull property. A … Read More
