Briarpatch Magazine » Israel/Palestine http://briarpatchmagazine.com Fiercely independent (and often irreverent) news & views. Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:33:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en CanWest SLAPPs Free Speech http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/04/15/canwest-slapps-free-speech/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/04/15/canwest-slapps-free-speech/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:12:32 +0000 dave http://briarpatchmagazine.com/?p=629 Don’t Let Canwest SLAPP* Mordecai Briemberg and YOU !

By the Seriously Free Speech Committee Via the Canadian Dimension blog

Imagine you go to a public meeting on the Middle East; you see a humorous parody of the local daily, pick up a few copies and hand them out. Six months later you are served with a writ of summons that charges you with producing the parody, that threatens to cost you tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees, that takes up hundreds of hours of your time and aims to prevent you from expressing your opinions in future. Impossible? A Kafkaesque fantasy? This is what is happening to Mordecai Briemberg in Vancouver today and we need your help to stop it.]]> http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/04/15/canwest-slapps-free-speech/feed/ Power to the (Palestinian) people! http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/01/23/power-to-the-palestinian-people/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/01/23/power-to-the-palestinian-people/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:02:23 +0000 admin http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/01/23/power-to-the-palestinian-people/ By Jeff Halper Israeli Committee Against Housing Demolitions January 23, 2008 The people of Palestine have done it again, taking their own fate in their hands after being let down by their own "moderate" political leadership and, indeed, the entire international community in their struggle for freedom. Early this morning they simply blew up the wall separating Gaza from Egypt, breaking a siege imposed on them by an Arab government in collaboration with Israel.]]> http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/01/23/power-to-the-palestinian-people/feed/ The June B-List http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/06/30/the-june-b-list/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/06/30/the-june-b-list/#comments Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:00:44 +0000 admin http://briarpatchmagazine.com/test/2007/06/30/the-june-b-list/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/06/30/the-june-b-list/feed/