Human Rights

Twelve important items to browse and share as you see fit to help end the
march of folly to a regional and global war.

ITEM 1: 21st March we celebrate Mothers' Day. For the record this was
founded by Anna Jarvis and Julia Ward Howe as  "Mothers' Day For Peace"
where mothers demanded an end to wars and stop sacrificing people on the
altar of men's racism, greed, and egos. Look it up.  I remember my own
mother who fought for peace and died peacefully last year remembering a
 massacred friend of hers (Hayah Balbisi from Deir Yassin killed April 1948
by terrorist Zionist militias).

ITEM 2: Update on the genocide. 32,000 confirmed civilians murdered in the
genocide on Gaza till now (and thousands more missing under the rubble).
Genocide by US sponsored Israeli junta military both by carpet bombings and
by starvation and thirst. The levels of misery and genocide in Gaza is part
and parcel of colonial tactics to destroy indegineous communities who stand
between the colonizers and their vision of transforming the land to a new
reality sans indigineous people. Here is shocking report on Israeli-made
famine

For the last month, I could not get the image of 6-year-old Lebanese girl Amal Dorr off my mind. Amal was killed in an Israeli airstrike on February 21 in South Lebanon along with another victim Khadija Suleiman, 40, whose child was seriously injured. Zaineb was on her was to visit her uncle's house nearby in the city of Majda Zion. This precious little girl is the same age as my granddaughter Zaineb.

Thousands of mourners came from all over Lebanese to attend Zaineb and Khadija's funeral in order to pay respect. Zaineb and Khadija's lives were tragically cut short by savage Israeli airstrikes on that day. Zaineb is the eighth star to light the sky over Lebanon since the start of Al-Aqsa Flood Operation. The other 7 Lebanese martyred children were: Taline and Layan Shour from the village of Ainata, killed on November 5, 2023. Also, Hussein and Amir Mohsen from Sawaneh village, killed on Feb. 14, 2024, and Ghadeer Tarhini and Mahmoud Amer from the town of Nabatieh who were killed on Feb. 13, 2024, according to Mayadeen English, Feb. 2022.

Call and write your U.S. Congressmember:

Vote to pass the House Version of S. 3853, the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA).

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) has compensated people who were exposed to radioactivity from the Nevada Nuclear Test Site, along with some workers participating in atmospheric testing and uranium miners. Congress failed to reauthorize it last December, so it is slated to expire this July.

A new bill that would renew and expand RECA has passed the U.S. senate!

Senate Bill 3853 extends RECA for 6 years! A big bonus is that new sites have been added!

Sponsored by Senators Hawley (R-MO), Luján (D-NM), and Crapo (R-ID), S. 3853 would offer first-time compensation to communities impacted by the atomic bomb test in New Mexico, as well as residents of Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Tennessee, and Guam. It also would cover areas of Nevada, Utah and Arizona not currently covered by RECA and include additional uranium workers.

I start with genocide news, go to actions YOU CAN take and then five more
items of relevance (please share and act)

Item 1: (Genocide) Seven Babies died in one of the only remaining hospital
with incubators. They died.... for lack of milk.  They add to over hundreds
of babies (less than 1 year old) who died by carpet bombing residential
neighborhoods.  But now, the deaths of babies is already more from
malnutrition and diseases (genocide by famine) than from bombings. It is
expected to rise. Amnesty on genocide by hunger

Item 1: Speaking tours in two new continents: Over the past 40 years I
spoke about human rights and justice at 45 countries around the world (8 in
Africa, 13 in Europe, 22 in Asia, 2 in North America). Now my wife and I
are planning two trips to two new continents: Australia/New Zealand and
Latin America). We welcome invitations and support or at least network us
with friends you know there who could do this. Events are filling quickly
so please notify us ASAP if you want to help or invite. Rough schedule:
April 15-18: Perth
April 19-23: Adelaide
April 24-28: Sydney
April 29-May 3: Brisbane
May 4-6: Sydney
May 7-12: Melbourne
May 13-17: Canberra
May 18-June 3rd New Zealand
November and December: South America (Chie, Argentina so far but other
countries could be arranged)

Item 2: When I am gone (song by Phil Ochs).... https://youtu.be/PNp1kqnRw-U

The rich history of genocides does not show us combination like the one we
have today:
1) Overwhelming evidence of intent broadcast and available to everyone on
instant communication devices (phones, tablets, computer) and based on a
messianic model of chosenness linking to biblical mythologies of conquest
of Canaan, wiping out other nations etc
2) Wanton destruction of people and their livelihood. Destroying all their
means of livelihood denying them food, medicine, water, fuel etc. Man made
famine of thsi scale and meanness never happended before. Addedto direct
bombing of civilians, hundreds die daily and so far 1 in 20 people in Gaza
iskilledorn injured.
3) Wanton destruction of property to make life unnlivable even after the
genocide stops. 70% of all building are destroyed so far: homes hopsitals,
mosques, churches, civil defence, police buildings, water facicilities,
trees etc
4) Wanton attack and destruction of humanitarian aid organizations and
their facilities(e.g. the UN agencies)
5) Never in history do we see such division between the wishes of hundreds

The pathetic State of our World: Greed, Corruption and the Genocide by
Mazin Qumsiyeh
posted at
https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2024/02/pathetic-state-of-our-world.html

The UN Security counsil will try to pass a resolution calling for a
ceasefire (really should be called a resolution to end the genocide) but
the US is expected to veto it (thus violating its own laws again as wel as
the genocide convention)

What is happening in Palestine now? I see some 300 videos every week that
break my heart. Here are some of the less graphic ones.

Day 130 of the ongoing genocide: Total killed 28340 (+some 7,000 under the
rubble to be added) and injured  67984. 72% are women and children. This
also does not count the thousands dead from lack of food, clean water,
medicine and from infectious diseases and cold exposure. Desperate
situation for over 2 million people in Gaza strip. Meanwhile as you expect,
the news is mixed. Some groups speaking out and acting to end the genocide
while others work to accelerate it. For example while UNRWA (
https://www.unrwa.org/) tries to do its mandate of humanitarian aid,
Israeli authorities with support of the complicit puppet western
governments are shutting its operations and hobbling it. And yes the
Palestinian authority is permeated with corruption like the Israeli
authorities. Both are like this by design with no democracy or rule of
independent judiciary that serves everyone. In the case of Tel Aviv, the

This blog is also posted at
https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2024/02/hind-and-more.html

Her family members murdered, the ambulance that came to rescue her
attacked, and her rescuers killed. Israel murdered 6-year-old Hind, family
members and ambulance crew & left to decompose
https://www.channel4.com/news/six-year-old-hind-rajab-found-dead-in-gaza-days-after-plea-for-help-2