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At an Oxford City Council meeting on Monday 24 March, councillors unanimously voted for an “ethical investment and procurement” process, specifically in connection to Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. And the motion’s proponent, Cllr Barbara Coyne, said in a...
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On Tuesday 25 March, climate crisis and anti-genocide protesters across England came together to target insurance companies complicit in death and destruction around the world. A press release from Boycott Bloody Insurance explained that: groups from the climate justice, Palestine liberation...
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On 24 March, Israeli far-right Zionist settlers in the occupied West Bank attacked and lynched Hamdan Ballal, who co-directed the Oscar-winning No Other Land. Occupation soldiers then abducted him from the ambulance that had come to treat him for...
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Award-winning musician Macklemore has called the combination of rising fascism, Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and climate breakdown “the biggest threat to humanity we have ever faced”. Macklemore: the ‘earth is aching’ At a People’s Forum event this weekend in solidarity with...
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Israel has killed two journalists in Gaza on Monday 24 March. Occupation forces targeted the car of Al Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat in northern Gaza. And they targeted the house of Palestine Today journalist Mohammad Mansour in southern Gaza....