Chukat: Give Us Back The Occupied Territories Now! (tags)
Give Us Back The Occupied Territories Now! A Common Refrain That Goes All The Way Back To The Beginning Of The Jewish People.
This Week in Palestine, April 21, 2017 (tags)
Hundreds of Palestinian political detainees held by Israel announce this week an open ended hunger strike, meanwhile Israeli troops kill a Palestinian man during a West Bank attack.
This Week in Palestine, January 13th, 2016 (tags)
This Week in Palestine, January 13th, 2016
Israelis Are Today's Nazis (tags)
Israel
Israel
Blood in the Streets in Occupied Palestine (tags)
Palestine
Palestine
Israeli Ruthlessness 101 (tags)
Israel
Israel Plans Annexing West Bank Territory (tags)
Israel
We're All Ukrainians Now (tags)
Ukraine
Planned Israeli Jordan Valley Annexation? (tags)
Israel
Palestinian Political Prisoners (tags)
Israel
Israeli Settlements are War Crimes (tags)
Israel
Israeli Apartheid Ruthlessness (tags)
Israel
Palestinians and Israelis: Unequal Treatment (tags)
Israel
Richard Falk: Speaking Truth to Power (tags)
Israel
Lebanon's Victory Day of National Resistance (tags)
Lebanon
America's Genocidal Iraq War (tags)
Iraq
Understanding Israeli Settlements (tags)
Israel
Israel's One of the World's Biggest Land-Grabbers (tags)
Israel
Netanyahu: The Face of Israeli Fascism (tags)
Israel
Israel
European parliament approves EU-Israel trade agreement/Letter of protest to mrs Ashton, EU (tags)
With the approval of the European Parliament of the ACCA trade agreement with Israel, the EU sets further steps in supporting Israel, despite its occupation, illegal settlements policy and warcrimes This and the EU international role of political, economical and military domination and exploitation of the Thirld World, the inhuman asylumpolicy, the wars in Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Trojka starvation of the Greeks, makes the Nobelprize for Peace to the EU a mockery of Justice
Democrats Throw Palestinians Under the Bus (tags)
Palestinians
International Law Revisionism (tags)
Israel
Land Day: Why It Matters (tags)
Israel
Reality in Occupied Palestine (tags)
Palestine
Israeli Settlements: An Obstacle to Peace (tags)
Israel
Israel Plans Major Gaza War (tags)
Palestine
Systematic West Bank Settler Violence (tags)
Palestine
International Solidarity Day with Palestine (tags)
Palestine
BTL:Police Suppression of Occupy Wall Street Movement Forces Activists to Adopt New Tactic (tags)
Interview with Arun Gupta, a founding editor of New York City’s Indypendent Newspaper, The Occupied Wall Street Journal and The Occupied USA Today, conducted by Scott Harris
Report: The Indigenous Committee at Occupy LA (tags)
Indigenous people around the country are making their voices heard at occupations. Here in LA (occupied Yangna), the Indigenous Committee has been imparting many of these views in a local context.
Call to Action Against ALEC in Phoenix this November (tags)
ALEC should know there are a million better things to do with their time than plotting mass incarceration. But there?s nowhere we?d rather be than confronting their meeting.
LONG LIVE THE 32 YEAR VICTORY OF THE SANDINISTA REVOLUTION OF 1979! (tags)
Today, July 19, 2011, the Alliance-Philippines (AJLPP) commemorates as it congratulates the revolutionary people of Nicaragua and the ruling FSLN party for the 32nd anniversary of the victory of the Nicaraguan Revolution on July 19, 1979. For the Alliance, the history Nicaragua is akin the history of the Philippines. A bloody history of foreign intervention. Both were under the Spanish colonialist and under the US occupation. The US marines occupied Nicaragua from 1912 to 1933,
Israel kills protesters on Nakba Day/Israeli murder machine goes on and on (tags)
The Israeli killings of Nakba Day and six june war protesters is not an incident, but part of the systematic violence of Israeli occupation Palestinians can only get their right by the armed struggle against the occupation army
French Worker Struggles for Justice (tags)
struggling without union support
Deteriorating Conditions for Israeli Arab Citizens (tags)
Israel wants the city exclusively Jewish
OCHA's Special Focus on Occupied Palestine (tags)
horrific Gaza conditions under siege
Targeting Israeli Apartheid (tags)
Apartheid is the worst form of racism
The Occupied West Bank Latroun Villages (tags)
occupied and persecuted
International education strike network-meeting in Berlin 15.th – 17.th of January 2010 (tags)
Becouse of the international Studentsprotest there is the first official international education strike network-meeting at th Humbold University Berlin from the 15.th unitil the 17.th of January 2010. In europe now there are more than 280 universities occupied and the students have claims to those respnsible wich are a must for a sensible education. Worldwide more then 580 universities are participating with the protestactivities. the most of those are also occupied
Israeli Occupation, Colonialism and Apartheid (tags)
Israeli oppression continues
Juliano Mer Khamis-- Is the Freedom Theater Training Children for Jihad? (tags)
www.bluetruth.net/2009/04/juliano-mer-khamis-is-freedom-theater.html
Human Rights in Israel and Occupied Palestine (tags)
serious human rights violations
Saturday (12/20): Reports from Greece (tags)
Today it's two weeks since the murder of Alexis and the beginning of the revolt. It is also day of international solidarity and global day against the police and state terrorism. Here are the major protests and events of the day in Greece.
Thursday (12/18): reports from Greece (tags)
Nothing is over, thousands took the streets again!
Occupied building of GSEE (in Greece) (tags)
Since 8 o'clock in the morning the building of GSEE (Patision and Alexandras) is occupied. We declare the building a Liberated Workers' Zone. Open Workers' Assembly at 18.00 The Building is open to all workers all day long.
Monday 12/15: reports from Greece (tags)
Monday 12/15: reports from Greece
Sunday reports from Greece (tags)
Sunday reports from Greece
Thursday reports from Greece (tags)
Thursday reports from Greece
NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- PALESTINE FOCUS (tags)
The Palestinian cause is the right of return for all refugees and nothing less.
Another Israeli West Bank Land Grab Scheme (tags)
Israeli land theft.
Breaking the Silence - Israeli Soldiers Speak (tags)
They no longer will kill Palestinians
Islamic-Christian front warns of scheme targeting Arab presence in Jerusalem (tags)
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Dr. Hasan Khater, the secretary-general of the Islamic-Christian front for the defense of Jerusalem and holy shrines, warned that the IOA started a few days ago to implement a dangerous scheme targeting the Arab and Islamic presence in occupied Jerusalem through promoting a new ID card as a prelude to imposing it on Jerusalemite Palestinians.
UN's Assessment of Human Rights Violations in Occupied Palestine (tags)
Israel's continued oppression in Occupied Palestine.
Blockade on Gaza: Crime against humanity (tags)
With the whole or partly blockade on Gaza, the Israeli authorities are guilty of crimes against humanity
Time for Navy to Ship Out of Illegally Occupied Hawaii (tags)
It is time for the U.S. Navy to close its Hawaii Range Complex, pack its bags, and ship out of the illegally occupied nation of Hawaii. On your way out, be sure to clean up after yourselves. You have left a big mess in your wake. Your mother, my mother, Mother Earth herself, says Enough! It’s time for Military Clean-up, NOT Build up!
Can America save itself? (tags)
From the foreign agents within. Far more dangerous than The Bin.
Anniversary of Second Israeli Invasion of Lebanon (tags)
Letter to the international labour movement (tags)
On May 31, at 7:00 am, 150 police armed to the teeth invaded Cipla, a factory controlled by the workers, and "installed" an administrator appointed by the federal judge at the request of the INSS (Social Security). The management elected by the workers along with other selected workers were expelled or prevented from entering the plant. Armed terror has been imposed in the factory. One of the first measures taken by the administrator was to cover with a black canvas the plaque at the entrance of the factory which said: "CIPLA, company controlled by the workers." A marvelous national and international compaign demanding the end of the intervention at Cipla was launched just a few hours after the Federal Police carried out their war operations. Messages began to arrive to the Lula government and the Minister of Justice, Tarso Genro, who is responsible for the Federal Police and Luis Marinho, Minister of Social Security, from whose ministry the request for the intervention in Cipla came. Messages were also sent to the Minister of Labour and Employment, Carlos Lupi. This strong and immediate reaction gave us the strength and energy to organize the resistance against these riduculous events.
The National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) con-tradicts assertions of the White House that iran and Syria are playing an important role in Iraq. "Actors from the outside do not decisive-ly influence the violence and the prospects for stability."
This is What Recuperation Looks Like: the Rebellion in Oaxaca and the APPO (tags)
A look at the events in Oaxaca and a critical look at the APPO and its program of struggle.
Barred from Contact: Violation of the Right to Visit Palestinians Held in Israeli Prisons. Israel holds in prison more than 9,000 Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The vast majority are held in prisons situated inside Israel 's sovereign territory, and not in the Occupied Territories .
The Water Question In the Occupied Lands (tags)
Israel steals the Palestinian's water then sells it back to them at 15 times the price the illegal Israeli settlers pay
Getting the word out on NPR (tags)
Getting the word out has always been difficult for Palestinians. The major reason for this is that Israel often succeeds in framing the issues from its point of view, and the mainstream media in the West goes along with it. A favorite gambit that Israel uses to cloak its outrageous policies towards the Palestinian population is to cry "security", which then pretty much allows it to do anything. When "security" is too conspicuously untrue, it justifies itself by referring to its own policy. This can be questioned only through its own legal system, which is not exactly designed to safeguard Palestinian rights. It sets up the equation of "lawful" Israelis and "unlawful" or criminal Palestinians.
The Evil Conspiracy of the Peacemongers! (tags)
THE ARAB peace initiative could be successful if it puts in front of the Israeli public the straight and unequivocal choice: peace without the occupied territories - or the occupied territories without peace.
A CALL TO JEWS OF CONSCIENCE TO STAND WITH JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS OPPOSING ISRAELI TERROR (tags)
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=action&Number=294842280&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=21&part=
Zionism as a Racist Ideology (tags)
"Unconsciously, of course, many Americans also seem to believe that the shameful policies of the U.S. government toward Native Americans somehow make it acceptable for the government of Israel to pursue equally shameful policies toward the Palestinians. The U.S. needs to face its racist policies head on as much as it needs to confront the racism of its foremost partner, Israel."
Palestinian Choices and an action alert on Gaza (tags)
...a luta continua
srael Tunes Out: Denies entrance to piano tuner from California (tags)
Paul Larudee, PHd, a piano tuner from California, was denied entry to Israel based on his political support for Palestinian liberation.
Anti-Arab Racism Prevalent in Israel According to Poll (tags)
A recent poll confirms what many Arab Palestinians already knew - many Israeli Jews hold racist views toward Arabs. Israeli parties with anti-Arab platforms made electoral gains in the recent elections. What does this mean for the Arabs of Palestine?
Argentina:Social Movements and Alternative Media (tags)
Join Marie Trigona at the East Side Cafe for a look at alternative media in Latin America, Argentina’s occupied factory movement and the challenges posed by current “progressive” governments in Latin America.
5 REASONS to Stop US Military Aid to Israel (tags)
"You must end the illegal occupation." -Kofi Annan, addressing Israel in a meeting of the UN Security Council, March 12, 2002 "I am a black South African, and if I were to change the names, a description of what is happening in the Gaza Strip and West Bank could describe events in South Africa." -Archbishop Desmond Tutu
LIFE IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE (tags)
An account of Israeli oppression against the Palestinian people
One of Thousands of Crimes Against Humanity in Occupied Palestine (tags)
IOF killed two Palestinians. On Saturday, 17 December 2005, IOF shot dead a Palestinian civilian in the Gaza Strip as he attempted together with another civilian to enter Israel to search for jobs. On Wednesday, 21 December 2005, IOF extra-judicially executed a Palestinian in Jenin. http://www.pchrgaza.org/
Israel plans demolition of tens of Palestinian homes in Ramle (tags)
Occupied Jerusalem - The Zionist government in Tel Aviv has recently sanctioned the demolition of dozens of Palestinian homes in the city of Ramle (occupied in 1948) at the usual excuse of lack of construction permit
BTL:Israeli Withdrawal from Gaza Accompanied by Destabilizing Expansion of... (tags)
...Settlements in the West Bank ~ Interview with Neve Gordon, of Ben-Gurion University, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
Parsons Corporation: War Profiteers in Pasadena (tags)
Pasadena based, Parsons Corporation, is building prisons and military bases in Iraq.
Freedom Summer Palestine 2005 (tags)
Freedom Summer Palestine 2005 is a Palestinian non violent campaign against Israeli occupation — This summer, With the participation of international supporters, Palestinians will continue their long-standing mobilization for nonviolent direct action against the occupation and draw the world's attention to what is really happening in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 5/20/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
Occupied Territory Postponed (tags)
The Organizing Collective with Occupied Territory is announcing that the Occupied Territory Gathering is going to have to be postponed for several months.
2000 Mark 2nd Anniversary of Iraq Invasion (tags)
2000+ Angelenos march against the war in Iraq, marking two years since American forces invaded and occupied the country. Hollywood, March 19, 2005.
Palestinian Elections – Charting the Palestinian Future (tags)
Marina del Ray, CA 90292
American Conquest of Falluja is a Pyrrhic Victory (tags)
During the fighting in Falluja, rebels brought parts of Iraq's third largest city Mossul under their control.. War is a brutalization machine that can hardly be stopped.. This is an endless cruel game in which occupiers and occupied show their hatred more and more..
Occupied Territory II- Anarchist Gathering (tags)
Occupied Territory II Feb 2005 - Bay Area
Demo in Sofia Demands Immediate Bulgarian Withdrawal (tags)
A demonstration of many hundreds gathered in Sofia 29 July 2004 to protest the presence of 470 “allied” Bulgarian troops at Karbala in Occupied Iraq and demand their immediate withdrawal. The protest, called by Revolutionary Youth Movement Che Guevara (http://www.che-sofia.hit.bg/ ) and other groups, included a number of activists from the Bulgarian Anti-Authoritarian Group “Anarhosuprotiva” (AnarchoResistamce). This followed a similar smaller demonstration on July 16.
Up Against The Wall ! Israel ! (tags)
People who attack the World Court for its July 9 Ruling on the Israeli wall in the Occupied Territories should beware.
Help me Daddy!!! (by Latuff) (tags)
Copyright-free artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff, on behalf of the brave Palestinian people and their struggle against U.S. backed IsraHell's terror.
occupied territory report back/police harassment (tags)
doodles
Occupied Territory: Tarps, Forks, and Community (tags)
Things you need for the Occupied Territory Gathering this Friday!
Racial Discrimination by and in the State of Israel (tags)
Perhaps those who suffer the heaviest discrimination are those Palestinians who were ejected from their homeland in 1948 and again in 1967, dispossessed of their homes and land, and rendered stateless.
Occupied Territory Gathering CA FAQ (tags)
Occupied Territory FAQ *Note: The meeting spot for the gathering on Friday June 18th has been changed to 3pm-5pm San Pablo and Belmont in Fresno CA. FNB feed, park located under freeway, ample parking.*
Israel & Occupied Territories: US Country Reports on Human Rights Practice (tags)
We can assume this is why Israel did not wish to make an appearance at the Hague but sent instead a bus. All of these offenses needed to be discussed but Israel refused to show up and be present. The US continues to reward such behavior with American Tax Dollar$.
Calling all theatre groups - Palestinian Play for Performance (tags)
Details of a play for performance regarding the plight of Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories. This is primarily of interest for those involved in (political) theatre. This site won't allow me to download the file with the play itself, if you are interested to see it contact me at nestofangels@merseymail.com and I will send it to you
ETHNIC CLEANSING AT WORK US Tax dollars $upport this treatment of a people: ethnic cleansing
End Israeli Settlement Activity (tags)
AN ARTICLE ABOUT JEWS THAT SUPPORT OTHER INDIGENOUS PEOPLE...
"This is part of the campaign to isolate Palestinian activists from the outside world and crush their resistance. However, we maintain that Jews who stand against injustice must have equal rights with Jews who support it." IWPS
Occupied Territory CA Anarchist Gathering Fresno June 04 (tags)
Occupied Territory is an anarchist gathering happeing in Fresno 2004 June 18-20. The gathering wil focus on local and regional collectives, building an autonomous village, and creating dialog for greater organization.
IsraHell's Apartheid Wall Fact Sheet (by Latuff) (tags)
In the words of Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolition: "There is no intention to allow a viable Palestinian state."
CA Anarchist Gathering 2004 FEB 18-20, 2004 (tags)
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Winds of change in Israel? (tags)
A recent article by Akiva Eldar in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz signals the realisation that by supporting the Likud-rightwing combination, the United States is actually working against the long-term interests of Israel. The op-ed is appropriately titled: “With friends like these”.
Jean Ziegler, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, payed an official visit to Palestine in July 2003. This the first time a UN Rapporteur was allowed to investigate the situation in the occupied territories.
Freedom fighter in Haifa, occupied Palestine, takes out 18 of the enemy (tags)
A heroic Palestinian freedom fighter today took out 18 of the enermies of justice, freedom and peace in Haifa, occupied Palestine
Conscience or Complicity: The Altered State Solution (tags)
While USA continues to support Israel with BILLION$ of tax dollars, Israel blatantly disregards International and Humanitarian Laws and USA mainstream medias continue their biased & slanted coverage reporting one terror victim and not another.And why is criticism of Israel always labelled "anti-semitism" ?
SELF DETERMINATION STARTS IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES (tags)
SELF-DETERMINATION CONTINGENT
Focus On Jerusalem ~ (Michael Tarazi's Bad Fences Part IV) (tags)
International And Humanitarian Law IS Non-Negotiable. US tax dollars should NOT be funding any kind of terrorism, including this!
U.S. SOLDIERS KILL JOURNALIST IN IRAQ (tags)
1) Palestinian cameraman Mazen Dana, working for Reuters News Agency, during a protest against the shooting and killing of journalists by the Israeli army in the West Bank. Dana, 41, was shot dead outside the U.S. held Abu Gharib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. Eyewitnesses say he was shot by American occupation soldiers. (AFP/File/Hossam Abu Alan)
CFL ALERT: ASK YOUR REP TO SPONSOR AN ISM RESOLUTION (tags)
ASK YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TO SPONSOR A RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT AND ASSIST THE INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT'S WORK IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES.
The mantra that Arafat crack down on terror has always been a fraud. Who is to do this cracking down? Obviously, Palestinian police, security forces and courts. But they are the chief target of Sharon's murderous onslaught. Sharon's strategy today is the same as it was in Beirut in 1982. He wants to destroy and discredit the Palestinian Authority so as to ensure the Palestinians are left without a credible leadership.
The War on Human Rights Groups (tags)
This is the beginning of the War on Human Rights Groups, perpetuated by the IDF and aimed in particular at those who wish to help Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and Gaza.
Italy, immediate strikes in the whole country (tags)
immediate rallies in whole Italy, huge partecipation. All day strike for public employees and for decided by CGIL union, 2 hours general strike for all Italian workers decided by all unions, stations occupied, highways and roads invaded.
U.N. Resolution Violations other than Iraq (tags)
This is an interesting list and summary of U.N. Security Council Resolutions which are being violated by countries other than Iraq.
30 Years Of U.S. UN Vetoes. (tags)
Look how we have Voted // Vetoed- see any bias? 1972-2002 Vetoes from the USA
IOF Outrages Continue in Nablus, Palestine-Activist Reports (tags)
The Latest ISM Activist Reports
English translation of Pocket Guide for IDF soldiers (tags)
English translation of Pocket Guide for Israeli Occupation Forces serving in the occupied territories, distributed by The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B'Tselem (Visit their website link in Israel, below)
Eyewitness to Occupied Palestine: Adam Shapiro and Huwaida Arraf (tags)
Free and open to the public: Discussion on Israeli occupation, and about leading non-violent protests to end occupation
Argentina: MOBILIZE TOGETHER TO PLAZA THE MAYO (tags)
Author: Press secretary PTS (Partido de Trabajadores por el Socialismo) Date: 12/14/2002 Source: Press Release
New racist policies against impoverished Gazan workers (tags)
The Israeli Occupation Authorities has issued new work policies in the 'Eretz industrial zone' in the northern Gaza Strip, which forbid Gazans from wearing shoes, coats or bringing food from home.
Israeli army attacks Christian worshipers outside Church of the Nativity (tags)
Israeli occupation soldiers on Sunday pushed, beat and dragged to the ground Christian worshipers who were on their way to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
Interview with activist recently back from Occupied Territories today on KillRadio.org
Journalism under attack in Argentina (tags)
Tense situation in occupied factory Zanon
Firsts hand account from arrestee in occupied Palestine - some corrections (tags)
Being back in Los Angeles comparing the two ways of life. Police brutality in Los Angeles does not even compare to Israeli occupation. One though, must draw the correlation, that Israel’s brutal occupation would not even be possible without the backing of the United States. Anybody who's oppressed can have some unity with the Palestinian people who have nothing to lose and a world to win. My friends and other youth (who constantly get harrassed or brutalized by police) can draw inspiration from Palestinian youth's fearlessness going against tanks with their slingshots for their dreams of liberation.
First Hand Account from Arrestee in Occupied Palestine (tags)
On August 7th of 2002, 9 international activists were arrested in a village near Nablus, called Hawara. There was a demonstration organized by Palestinian farmers, against curfews imposed on them by Israel
From the West Coast...to the West Bank (tags)
Tamara Rettino, a Young Jewish-American Woman Shares Stories & Pictures of her Journey to Occupied Palestine.Tamara's first public speaking engagement, will happen just one week after leaving the occupied Palestinian territories. She is the only Jewish activist from the Los Angeles area to join in this year's International Solidarity Movement's Freedom Summer, where she spent six weeks under fire in Ramallah, Gaza and Jenin.
Christison: Full Story of Resolution 242.. A MUST READ (tags)
Kathleen Christison worked for 16 years as a political analyst with the CIA, dealing first with Vietnam and then with the Middle East
First the Carrot, Then the Stick: Behind the Carnage in Palestine (tags)
A MUST READ!, by Prof. Finkelstein, a jew whose parents were extermination camps survivors
Hundreds of Israeli Army Reservists Refuse to Serve in Occupied Territories (tags)
Lt. Noam Wiener is a 27-year-old lieutenant in the Israeli Army Reserves and a law student who has signed the Courage to Refuse declaration. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Lt. Wiener about why he has refused to serve in the occupied territories and in so doing, risk imprisonment.
Pro-Palestine March in Long Beach (tags)
March in Long Beach
Hezbollah: Israel Security to be Rocked, Support Palestinian Resistance (tags)
Sheikh Qassem said, " the continuation of the intifada worries Israelis and the security of 'Israel' must be rocked from within and outside Jerusalem, Palestine must be completely liberated." He also said Hezbollah "will place its gun alongside of the Palestinian resistance and it will act to liberate all Palestine though all human and material means".
Occupation of the Italien consulate in Bremen/Germany at 3rd of August (tags)
In Bremen/Germany 15 people occupied the Italian consulate for 2 hours. They demanded that ALL the prisoners which are still arrested in Genova have to be free immediately. The occupiers demanded that the following statement was faxed to the Italian authorities and the press from the consulate including an official stamp and the sign of one employee. That happened straight after the beginning of the occupation.
NY Times and LA Times coverage of the conflict in the Occupied Territories (tags)
Observations made while reading through NY Times and LA Times articles covering the conflict in the Occupied Territories.
Lock Down at Gores HQ-OXY OUTA UWA LAND (tags)
Happening Right NOW---- Oly Earth Firsters and other activists and rabble rousers have occupied the Gore Headquarters in Olympia, Washington (USA) since about 11:30 this morning.