nolympics writes:

I was a human shield

By Billie Moskona-Lerman

I visited hell and I came back in one piece. It happened on the night
between Thursday and Friday last week [March 20-21] when I
accompanied Joe and Laura,two 20-year old human rights activists, in
acting as a human shield facing the IDF. When they asked me do I
join in and I answered "yes", I did not fully realize what I was
getting myself into. It was my first experience under fire:so close
to death, so anonymous, my life so easily abandoned in somebody else's
hands. Never did I feel so weak, so defenceless. I did say "I am
coming" and we set out. It was 7.30 PM. we walked through the main
street of Rafah, a town which is in fact just a big refugee camp. We
walked in darkness, through ruins, pot-holes and puddles, torn bits
of nylon and plastic, barbed wire and piles of rubbish. Here and
there some stores were open. Groups of young boys were walking around
us, shouting "Sa'lam Aleikum, Sa'lam Aleikum".

nolympics writes:
The Media and the Movement at the Oakland Docks"

David Martinez

I don't see any difference between one TV station and the next, all corporate
media is the same, and they are all our enemy, he tells me angrily. I?m talking
to a young radical, while we are both marching in a picket at the port of
Oakland, just after dawn, both of us stomping our feet to shake off the wet
chill that is still rolling in from of the bay.

The man I am talking to has just slashed the tires of a television van. I am
arguing that we, the radicals in the antiwar movement, should have a stance not
opposed to ALL ?corporate media?. We should instead focus our efforts on the
?worst? stations, those who are renowned for their shoddy and unfactual reporting.
For my comrades and I, those stations are channel two, the local Fox
affiliate, and CNN. The other stations we should try and cultivate, as if to
say: if you screw us over, this will be your punishment. Be warned.