Archive for the ‘Published articles’ Category
Saturday, November 26th, 2005
At 11am on Tuesday the 22nd of November residents of the Tubas area held a dignified demonstration against the Israeli checkpoint near Tayasir village. Around 100 Palestinians were joined by about 25 Israeli and international supporters. The shebab (youth) of the region were mostly in school at the time, so ...
Posted in Palestine/Israel, Published articles | No Comments »
Saturday, November 26th, 2005
On the morning of Friday 18th November villagers from Aboud, a village in the West Bank, held their first non-violent demonstration against the construction of the illegal Israeli annexation wall. The wall is threatening to steal agricultural land and water resources from the small Muslim/Christian village of 2500 citizens.
Posted in Palestine/Israel, Published articles | No Comments »
Monday, October 24th, 2005
On Saturday the 22nd of October, an ISM affinity group went into the fields near Salim village to join locals in the olive harvest. A family had contacted us to help them to pick olives in a plot of 100 dunums of land that they had been unable to ...
Posted in Journal, Palestine/Israel, Published articles | 4 Comments »
Thursday, August 11th, 2005
After trying and failing to get X going on this laptop with a BLAG install I decided to fall back to the tried and tested distro - Debian. For this install, I used a Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (Sarge) snapshot CD from 21st October 2004. I booted from the CD typing ...
Posted in Free Software, Published articles, Technology | 9 Comments »
Friday, February 11th, 2005
After my first stint in Hebron over election day, I went back to Jerusalem to gather my thoughts, do some laundry and decide on my next move. After a few days, I decided that I would go back to Hebron for the last week of my trip as the limits ...
Posted in Journal, Palestine/Israel, Published articles | No Comments »
Thursday, January 20th, 2005
The territories occupied by Israel that should constitute a future Palestinian state (the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem) are just that - under military occupation. It is currently the longest military occupation in the world, dating back to 1967. In the run up to this ...
Posted in Journal, Palestine/Israel, Published articles | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, January 12th, 2005
The resistance to the Wall I saw in Jayyous was very encouraging and brave, but what I witnessed in Biddu was nothing less than inspiring. On the 7th of January an olive tree planting action was planned. Several ISM activists came to join in the event which was organised by ...
Posted in Journal, Palestine/Israel, Published articles | 7 Comments »
Saturday, January 8th, 2005
On Tuesday the 4th of January about 30 ISM activists went up to Jayyus to join a local informational meeting and olive tree planting action against the devastating effects that the Apartheid Wall is having on the people there. Jayyus is a poor rural village of about 3200 Palestinians ...
Posted in Journal, Palestine/Israel, Published articles | 22 Comments »
Sunday, January 2nd, 2005
After stupidly missing my morning flight to Tel Aviv on Thursday, I had to get the evening one instead. Arriving Friday morning after a comfortable flight (on which I had been upgraded to business class) I was lucky enough to happen upon another ISMer in the shared taxi to Jerusalem, ...
Posted in Journal, Palestine/Israel, Published articles | 8 Comments »
Tuesday, March 16th, 2004
Last one from the archives for now. Did this after getting angry at the nonsense I woke up hearing on BBC Radio 1's news bulletin back in 2004. Originally posted on Indymedia UK, where you can find some debate about it.
by Asa Winstanley
The national survey of Iraq conducted this February ...
Posted in Iraq, Manufacturing consent, Published articles | No Comments »
Saturday, February 28th, 2004
I wrote this essay back in 2004 as a follow up to another on the connections between Free Software and anarchism. It seemed a logical continuation on the theme. It was originally published in the March 2004 issue of the (seemingly late) online journal Tangentium.
Another one I only got ...
Posted in Activism, Free Software, Published articles, Technology | No Comments »
Monday, December 22nd, 2003
I wrote this essay back in 2003 and it was originally published on Indymedia UK back in December 2003 (see that link for some discussion of the piece). It was also published in Freedom newspaper sometime in 2004.
For some reason, I did not get around to posting here on my ...
Posted in Activism, Free Software, Published articles, Technology | No Comments »
