The Palestine Solidarity network Aotearoa has renewed its urgent appeal to the government to act in the face of a distress call issued from Gaza’s Ministry of Health to the world to provide laboratory testing materials for Coronaviruus which will run out this evening (today NZ time) at Gaza’s central laboratory.
Big business is dead keen to get us all back to “business as usual” in quick time with the government priority to put the corporate sector first. We must resist this, not only for our own personal and community health, but also because there is no intention to shift from a business as usual agenda.
Many of us are rolling our eyes and tut tutting as women fight in the supermarket aisles over rolls of toilet paper.
Tragic News that coronavirus has reached Gaza.
Saving businesses is the first priority – workers losing their jobs are collateral damage and, after minimal help, will have to fend for themselves.
The post-election debate in Israel has heated up over the weekend.
Last week an unarmed Palestinian boy was murdered by the Israeli Defence Force and his body was dangled from and mangled by an Israeli bulldozer. The video is utterly horrifying.
This article by John Minto will be published in the April issue of Foreign Control Watchdog.
We are releasing it now because it is newsworthy now.
The one constant in national and local body politics is the length to which politicians go to hide the identity of their big donors. They don’t want us to know where their swags of money come from or the nod-nod, wink-wink policy promises that ensure the wealthy get what they want from the political parties they have bought.
On Saturday the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa wrote to the Wellington City mayor and councillors urging them to withdraw a proposed resolution on anti-semitism which is scheduled to be discussed and voted on at this Wednesday’s council meeting.