 what's new? selected writing Pittsburgh G-20 Legal Update: Report for Rustbelt Radio Nigel Parry, Monday, March 15th, 2010 
In October 2009, several people arrested during the Pittsburgh G-20 summit, who were charged with Disorderly Conduct and Failure to Disperse, had their first round of court appearances. On March 1st and 2nd, another round of court appearances were scheduled, including appeals. Nigel Parry reports for Rustbelt Radio, Pittsburgh Indymedia's weekly radio program. action & events Letter sent to the Presbyterian Church to negate the Simon Wiesenthal Center's anti-BDS spam campaign Nigel Parry, Thursday, February 25th, 2010 
The Simon Weisenthal Center has set up a spam tool—of which not one single letter of their text can be changed—to pressure the Presbyterian Church not to approve a BDS campaign against Israel. I wrote to elders of the Church myself, with a refutation of the letter, and an appeal for them to support the campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions as the only right thing to do.multimedia blog Mock programs expose The Israel Ballet's role in whitewashing war crimes Nigel Parry, Monday, February 22nd, 2010 
A year after Israel dispatched its internationally renowned Batsheva Dance Company to draw people's attention away from its slaughter of over 1,400 Palestinians in Gaza, The Israel Ballet was similarly dispatched in early 2010 on its first tour of the United States in 25 years. Activists across the country have been protesting the Israeli government-funded dance company under the banner "No Tutu Is Big Enough To Cover Israel’s War Crimes". As with the Batsheva tour, I worked on mock programs to be handed out to arriving audience members.selected writing The 2010 Olympics and Repression of Independent Media: Report for Rustbelt Radio Nigel Parry, Monday, February 15th, 2010 
The 21st Winter Olympics are being held from February 12th–28th, 2010, in Vancouver and Whistler, in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Host cities use the Olympic Games as a means to attract corporate investment in a similar way as with large-scale events such as the Republican and Democratic political conventions and global financial gatherings such as the World Trade Organization, G-8, and G-20 meetings. Nigel Parry reports for Rustbelt Radio.in the press Israeli ultra-rightist protested in Pittsburgh Walter Smolarek, PSLWeb.org, Thursday, February 11th, 2010 
On Wednesday, Feb. 3, more than 50 community members and activists converged outside the Hillel Jewish University Center in Pittsburgh to protest the presence of Efraim Eitam, an ultra right-wing Israeli general turned politician. Demonstrators were outraged that the JUC would host such an openly racist figure. Eitam has referred to Arabs as “cancer” and has made thinly veiled calls for ethnic cleansing. multimedia blog Mock posters created for Pittsburgh Hillel event hosting Israeli fascist Efraim Eitam Nigel Parry, Thursday, February 4th, 2010 
Possessed with a messianic fervor and described by Israeli peace activist Uri Averny as "Israel's #1 Fascist", Eitam is in the U.S. as part of the "Caravan for Democracy", an Israeli government sponsored tour whose major purpose—apart from garnering support for Israel, currently seems to be encouraging America to see Iran as the number one threat to world peace. Hillel hosted his Jewish National Fund-sponsored event. I made some mock Hillel posters.action & events Video: Protesting Israeli racist and ethnic cleansing advocate Efraim Eitam @ Pittsburgh Hillel Nigel Parry, Thursday, February 4th, 2010 
Hillel hosted former Israeli Knesset member Efraim Eitam's Jewish National Fund-sponsored event. Many from Pittsburgh's peace and justice community came out to protest his speech. This ten minute video records speakers from the street protest, and documents the arrival of school buses carrying young Jewish high school students who are one of the main target audiences of the "Caravan for Democracy" tour. |
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