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  1. The Anti-Semitism That Goes Unreported
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Our grandparents knew that the order-enforcement authorities wouldn't intervene to help a Jewish family under attack; we know that the Israel Defense Forces, the Israel Police, the Civil Administration, the Border Police and the courts all stand on the sidelines, closing their eyes, softballing investigations, ignoring evidence, downplaying the severity of the acts, protecting the attackers, and giving a boost to those progromtchiks. The hands behind these attacks belong to Israeli Jews who violate international law by living in the West Bank. But the aims and goals behind the attacks are the flesh and blood of the Israeli non-occupation. This systemic violence is part of the existing order. It complements and facilitates the violence of the regime.
  2. Battle of Blair Mountain
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    In 1921 between 10,000 and 15,000 coal miners confronted company-paid private detectives in an effort to unionize the southwestern West Virginia mine counties.
  3. Bil'in: Palestinian Village Under Attack
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Leaders of non-violent protests in Bil'in village against Israeli settlements and occupation arrested by Israeli occupation forces. International supporters are asked to support the non-violent resistance in the face of Israeli attempts to crush it.
  4. Bilin's Mohammad Khatib arrested
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    One month after touring Canada key Palestinian activist kidnapped by Israeli soldiers in another in a series of raids that Israeli occupation forces have carried out in Bil#in since June 2009, raids that commenced in tandem to the commencement of legal proceedings in Canada.
  5. Buda's Wagon
    A Brief History of the Car Bomb
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Mike Davis traces the car bomb's worldwide use and development. In his analysis, he also exposes the role of state intelligence agencies - particularly those of the United States, Israel, India, and Pakistan - in globalizing urban terrorist techniques
  6. Call from Gaza for Global Response to Killings on the Freedom Flotilla
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    We Gaza based Palestinian Civil Society Organizations and International activists call on the international community and civil society to pressure their governments and Israel to cease the abductions and killings in Israel's attacks on the Flotilla
  7. Canadians for Genocide Education
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  8. Cauca's indigenous community radios appeal for help
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    As fighting between guerrillas and the army intensifies once again in the Cauca department in south-western Colombia, indigenous communities and their communications infrastructure are more than ever at risk and under threat of censorship.
  9. Censorship? Haaretz Deletes Amira Hass Article On Surging Settler Violence
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Israeli newspaper Haaretz deleted a significant article by Amira Hass headlined "The anti-Semitism that goes unreported," about an unchecked upsurge in violence against Palestinians by Israeli settlers. The original article by Hass is available on ZComm.
  10. Connexions Library: Human Rights and Civil Liberties Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on civil liberties and human rights.
  11. Continuous protest at Israeli consulate in Toronto starts July 24
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    On July 24 people of conscience including Muslims, Jews, and Christians, are coming together at the Israeli consulate in Toronto for a three day continuous vigil to call attention to the frightening slaughter of the Palestinian people in Gaza
  12. Critique of Nonviolent Politics
    From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
  13. The deafening silence around the Hamas proposal for a 10-year truce
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The Western media have ignored the proposal from Hamas and Islamic Jihad for a 10-year-truce on the basis of 10 - very reasonable - conditions.
  14. Drug War Capitalism: An Interview with Dawn Paley
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    Published: 2016
    Dawn Paley’s book, Drug War Capitalism, provides a provocative thesis. The drug war is not about crime nor security. Rather, it enables global capitalist expansion through enclosure. In our hour-long interview Dawn elaborates on how elites collude across borders for their own benefit at the expense of their populations. She describes the consequences of this collusion as militarism, human rights abuses, and insecurity. As the interview develops, Dawn brings optimism back into the equation, with a discussion of resistance in everyday life, activism, and grassroot, peoples’ movements.
  15. "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Israel has a straightforward means to defend itself: put an end to its criminal actions in occupied territories, and accept the long-standing international consensus on a two-state settlement that has been blocked by the US and Israel for over 30 years, since the US first vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for a political settlement in these terms in 1976. The Arab League has gone even beyond the consensus, calling for full normalization of relations with Israel. Hamas has repeatedly called for a two-state settlement in terms of the international consensus. Iran and Hezbollah have made it clear that they will abide by any agreement that Palestinians accept.
  16. Extremely Loud: Sound as a Weapon
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    In this disturbing and wide-ranging account, acclaimed journalist Juliette Volcler looks at the long history of efforts by military and police forces to deploy sound against enemies, criminals, and law-abiding citizens. During the 2004 battle over the Iraqi city of Fallujah, U.S. Marines bolted large speakers to the roofs of their Humvees, blasting AC/DC, Eminem, and Metallica songs through the city's narrow streets as part of a targeted psychological operation against militants that has now become standard practice in American military operations in Afghanistan. In the historic center of Brussels, nausea-inducing sound waves are unleashed to prevent teenagers from lingering after hours. High-decibel, "nonlethal" sonic weapons have become the tools of choice for crowd control at major political demonstrations from Gaza to Wall Street and as a form of torture at Guantanamo and elsewhere.
  17. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Essays in which Chomsky analyzes the role of the American state and discusses some of the ways in which individuals can respond to its growing power.
  18. Gaza medic killed by Israel as she rescued injured
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Israeli occupation forces shot dead a volunteer medic and injured dozens of people as they continued their indiscriminate attacks on Palestinians taking part in Great March of Return protests in Gaza for the 10th consecutive Friday. Razan Ashraf Abdul Qadir al-Najjar, 21, was helping treat and evacuate wounded protesters east of Khan Younis when she was fatally shot on Friday evening. She was about 100 meters away from the boundary fence with Israel at the moment she was shot and was wearing clothing clearly identifying her as a medic.
  19. Gisha to Israeli Ministers: Stop Using Civilians in Gaza as a Weapon to Enforce the Ceasefire
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    New Legal Opinion Published: Not a siege, not a blockade, not an economic sanction â## closure and collective punishment. Punishing civilians in response to rocket fire by militants is illegal.

  20. Great Railroad Strike of 1877
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States and ended some 45 days later after it was put down by local and state militias.
  21. Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A strike against the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads involving more than 200,000 workers.
  22. Harper government should stop excusing Israeli crimes -- Independent Jewish Voices
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Harper government should stop excusing Israeli crimes.
  23. Health care and children in crisis in Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    These days one hears a lot about Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, adults who have been specifically trained for warfare, who are nevertheless traumatized by the experience of seeing comrades injured or killed, or suffering injuries or danger themselves. The trauma goes on, long after the experience has ended and they are back in a place of safety. How much worse then for children in Gaza who witness and experience these events day after day, week after week with no end and with no place of safety.
  24. Homestead Strike
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A labour lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892.
  25. If Gaza's Dead Were America's Dead
    Imagine the Outrage Over 27,000 Dead Kids...
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Imagine the Outrage Over 27,000 Dead Kids...
  26. IFEX members call for protection for women journalists and activists to mark day against violence
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    40 IFEX members are marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, 25 November, with a joint call for action.
  27. IFJ Calls for Prompt Inquiry into Murder of Senior Journalist in Pakistan
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on Pakistani authorities to launch an immediate inquiry in the murder of Mujeebur Rehman Saddiqui, senior correspondent of Daily Pakistan newspaper who was shot dead by gunmen.
  28. IFJ Condemns Deadly Attack on Journalists in Mexico
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the shooting attack on two young Mexican journalists in the city of Ciudad Juárez in which photojournalist Luis Carlos Santiago was killed and his colleague Carlos Sanchez wounded.
  29. IFJ Condemns ‘Shocking' Violence on Journalists in Belarus
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today accused authorities in Belarus of "violent bullying and intimidation" of journalists covering a peaceful protest in central Minsk yesterday.
  30. IFJ Joins Condemnation of Mindless Violence against Journalists in Cameroon
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its African group, the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), in condemning the brutal attack and subsequent arrests journalists who were covering a demonstration in Cameroon.
  31. IFJ Marks 'End of Deadly Decade' With Report on Journalists and Media Staff Killed in 2009
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today issued its report on journalists and media workers who died in the exercise of journalism in 2009. The report provides detailed information of media killings.
  32. IFJ Reports Heavy Media Loss to Violence after 97 Journalists Died in 2010
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The International Federation of Journalists warns that journalists and media personnel remain prime targets for political extremists, gangsters and terrorists as it announced that at least 94 journalists and media personnel who were killed in 2010.
  33. In Remembrance of Things Lost
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    It’s astonishing that I actually have to make an argument (and a losing one at that) against murdering children, but this is the reality we ourselves have given birth to.
  34. Israel/Lebanon: Deliberate destruction or "collateral damage"?
    Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    Amnesty International calls for the immediate establishment of a comprehensive, independent and impartial inquiry into violations of international humanitarian law by both Hizbullah and Israel in the conflict. The inquiry should examine in particular the impact of this conflict on the civilian population. It should propose effective measures to hold accountable those responsible for crimes under international law, and to ensure that the victims receive full reparation.
  35. Israel: Misuse of Drones Killed Civilians in Gaza
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Israeli attacks with guided missiles fired from aerial drones killed civilians during the recent Gaza fighting in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch says.
  36. Israeli army raids on Bil'in village
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Israeli army forces are launching night-time military raids on Bil'in village in Palestine. Military raids launched by Israeli forces in Palestine in parallel to court case in Canada.
  37. Israeli minister threatens "holocaust" as public demand ceasefire talks
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Israel's deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai has threatened Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip with a "holocaust." The comments came a day after Israeli occupation forces killed 31 Palestinians, nine of them children, one a six-month-old baby, in a series of air raids across the Gaza Strip.
  38. Israeli settler destruction of 1000s of trees hits Palestinian olive harvest
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Israeli settlers’ destruction of Palestinian olive trees will reduce this year’s harvest by an estimated USD $500,000 as 7,500 olive trees were destroyed in acts of settler violence, Palestinian and international aid & development organizations say.
  39. Jewish group condemns Israeli attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) has expressed shock and outrage in response to the deaths and injuries of participants in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla at the hands of the Israeli navy.
  40. Land of Impunity
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    If the police can get away with killing Ian Tomlinson, there's no justice in Britain.
  41. Manufacturing Consent
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
  42. NBC News Pulls Veteran Reporter from Gaza After Witnessing Israeli Attack on Children
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Ayman Mohyeldin, the NBC News correspondent who personally witnessed yesterday’s killing by Israel of four Palestinian boys on a Gazan beach and who has received widespread praise for his brave and innovative coverage of the conflict, has been ordered by NBC executives to leave Gaza immediately.
  43. Niger police attack media instead of protecting them
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Reporters Without Borders deplores the fact that privately-owned media were attacked by police during demonstrations in Niamey on 17 and 18 January although President Mahamadou Issoufou has assured the international community he is committed to media
  44. The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
  45. The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    A review of the increasingly prolific global arms trade and its economic, political and social impact on exploited and vulnerable nations.
  46. Nonviolence
    Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
  47. NPR Runs IDF Playbook, Spinning Killing of 17 Palestinians
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    The article looks at the NPR reporting on the killing of 17 palestinians, which follows a pro-Israel bias that dates back for years.
  48. The one thing that won't stop terror is more war
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Provoking retaliation is a key part of the jihadists' strategy, writes Alex Nunns - we need a different approach.
  49. Opposition daily throttled financially by lawsuits and dirty tricks
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The daily newspaper Azadliq, one of the few remaining opposition news outlets, is now in danger of succumbing to efforts to throttle it financially. Many members of Azadliq’s staff have been individually persecuted in connection with their work.
  50. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2015
    Urban agriculture and local food production
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    This issue of Other Voices ranges widely, from increasing worker activism and strikes in China, to advances in battery technology that make it much easier and cheaper to store solar and wind energy for future use, to testimonies from Israeli soldiers about the war crimes they committed routinely and as a matter of policy in last summer's attack on Gaza.
  51. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 28, 2017
    Resisting Injustice
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    In this issue, we look at the relentless persistence of people challenging injustice and entrenched power in places around the world, including Palestine, Korea, China, Canada, and the United States. We spotlight the hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons, workers’ strikes in China, and people in South Korea taking on a corrupt government. In the United States, the Equal Justice Initiative is collecting soil from places where blacks were lynched as a way of remembering their lives and the brutally racist society that murdered them. An article on recent terrorist attacks in Britain asks what underlies ideological violence and sociopathic rage. Ralph Nader asks why people who are supposed to be professional questioners avoid asking hard questions of those in power.
  52. Police Militarism in America
    In Many Communities Cops are the Terrorists
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The apparent murder by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, of Mike Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black youth who was shot a number of times while he was allegedly on his knees with his hands up in the air, pleading “Don’t shoot, I’m not armed,” is exposing everything that is wrong with policing in the US today. What we need today is community resistance to police abuse, and a demilitarization of policing.
  53. Questions about Israel's attack on Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Why do these terrible outbreaks of violence keep happening? Written during the Israeli attack on Gaza in July 2014.
  54. Rachel Corrie's Death is Not Merely "Regrettable Accident"
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    IJV condemns Israeli court decision absolving army of responsibility in death of Rachel Corrie.
  55. Racism and Sexual Violence in Indonesia
    Where Fear Stalks the Streets
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Indonesia, since 1965, performed three genocides fully backed by the West.
  56. Recalling the Hundreds of Thousands of Civilian Victims of America's Endless 'War on Terror'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    According to very conservative estimates, as reported by the "Costs of War" project of Brown University’s Watson Institute on International and Public Affairs, nearly 250,000 civilians have been killed during the 8 years since September 2001 in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan in wars or attacks that were instigated by the United States.
  57. Relentless Persistence
    Nonviolent Action in Latin America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
  58. The rising repression of social protest in Latin America
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    On 17 October, 2017, the corpse of Santiago Maldonado appeared in the Chubut River. The young activist had been missing for 80 days. The suspense surrounding Maldonado’s whereabouts aroused a great sense of unease in a country where the word “disappeared” brings to mind the 30,000 victims of the civic-military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.
  59. Seeds of Fire
    A People's Chronology
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
  60. The Shocking Savagery of America's Early History
    Bernard Bailyn, one of our greatest historians, shines his light on the nation's Dark Ages
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    A discussion with reknowned historian Bernard Bailyn whose recent book "The Barbarous Years" examines a particularly violent period of America's early history which has since been almost erased.
  61. A Short History of U.S. Bombing of Civilian Facilities
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The U.S. has repeatedly attacked civilian facilities in the past. This is a sampling of such incidents since the 1991 Gulf War.
  62. The Social History of The Machine Gun
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Covers the history of the machine gun's development, the attitudes that effected its acceptance, and its relation to economic, political, and military history.
  63. Sources welcomes Canadians for Genocide Education
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    CGE is a multi-cultural coalition of associations committed to equity and inclusivity in education on and commemoration of Genocide. Our focus areas are school curriculum and government funded projects relating to genocide and human rights.
  64. Study Reveals Corporate Media's Refusal to Acknowledge Civilian Victims of US Wars
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Mainstream media outlets are systematically disregarding the hazardous health impacts of widespread U.S. military burn pits on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, thereby playing a direct role in "legitimating the environmental injustices of war," a harrowing new scholarly report concludes.
  65. Terrorist Attacks in Paris: Can Tragedy Bring Change?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Paris has now suffered the sort of attacks that are familiar to Beirut or to Russia. The big question is: what next? Will this fear cause people to wake up to reality and think clearly?
  66. They Are Still Killing Trade Union Leaders
    Global Capital's Death Squads and Night-Riders
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Question: So what happens these days in developing countries when a prominent, charismatic union activist - with the courage to stand up to sinister, government-supported business groups who have, on more than one occasion, already threatened his life - attempts to get the country’s underpaid, under-benefited workers to join a labor union? Answer: They kill him.
  67. The Tip of the Iceberg: My Lai Fifty Years On
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
  68. The Truth About Kent State
    A Challenge to the American Conscience
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    An account of the murder of four students at Kent State University by National Guard troops.
  69. Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    Designed to inform those who are somewhat unfamiliar with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Written in question and answer format
  70. Violence, arrests and censorship in all four corners of India
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders condemns a wave of violence and censorship against the media in various parts of India in the past few weeks.
  71. Violence Today
    Actually Existing Barbarism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Looks at violence in many contexts: violence by men against women, violence by the state in inner cities, prisons, politically motivated violence and terror and the superabundance of weapons. Reflection is given to the sources of imperialism and globalized capitalism. The opening essay offers an overview of the scale and variety of contemporary violence while also taking up once again the question of socialism versus barbarism. Other essays analyze the nature and roots of paradigmatic cases and types of violence today around the world. Several essays deal from various different standpoints, with the still important question of whether violence has any place in socialist strategy in the context of today's actually-existing barbarism.
  72. What is Nonviolence Anyhow?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    What is it, this nonviolence? Who gets to define it? A kindergarten teacher is nonviolent when she puts a vase of fresh flowers on her desk and smiles at her little students, right? A young man who publicly refuses to be drafted during an invasion of another country is nonviolent, certainly. How about an old man who writes a letter to the editor arguing for peace on Earth?
  73. Which came first? Palestinian rockets or Israeli violence?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Since US media are reporting the latest Israeli massacre in Gaza as though it is a defensive action, I thought I would set the record straight. Israeli forces shelled and invaded Gaza BEFORE the rockets began. Rockets were fired only after numerous Palestinians, including many children, had been killed.
  74. Yemen: journalist killed in an air raid by the Saudi-led coalition
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Yemeni journalist Almigdad Mojalli was killed on 17 January in an air raid by the Saudi-led coalition in the capital, Sana'a, according to news reports.

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