“Forgive them not, Gaza
Not Europe that denies your children food
Not the Arabs who look away
Not the Trump administration that funds your starvation
Not the world that watches you suffer in vain”
- Jamal Kanj
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Wednesday, 30 July, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (MT)
KGNU Radio, 88.5 FM, 1390 AM, and kgnu.org/
Alternative Radio: India-Israel Alliance
Today, India and Israel have forged an alliance. It wasn’t always that way. India became independent in 1947. Its first prime minister, Nehru, positioned his country as a champion of the Palestinian cause. As the leader of the non-aligned movement, India’s stance on Palestine had great influence among other post-colonial nations. In the 1990s, that shifted. India moved into the U.S. orbit and embraced neoliberalism. And at the same time, it moved closer to Israel. It was said if India wanted to be close to the U.S., it had to reshape its critical policy towards Israel. And that they did. The two countries have something in common: India’s military occupation and domination of Kashmiris and Israel’s military occupation and domination of Palestinians. And India, under the Modi Hindutva, Hindu nationalist regime, is the world’s largest buyer of Israeli weapons. Israel, in return, buys weapons from India.
Azad Essa is an award-winning journalist. He is a senior reporter for Middle East Eye. His articles have appeared in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and Foreign Policy. He is the author of Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel.
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Thursday, 31July and 4:30 – 5: 30 AND Saturday, 2 August, 10:00 am – live event 425 South College Ave, Ft. Collins 80524 (corner of college and Mulberry, by Lucky’s Market)
Weekly Solidarity Vigil, FORTCOLLINSCEASEFIRE
We stand for one hour each week in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
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Saturday, 2 August, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon (MT)
Broadway and Canyon, Boulder CO
Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center presents:
Anti-War Demonstration
Stand with us on the corner of Broadway and Canyon in Boulder this Saturday from 11am – 12 pm, as we call for an end to U.S. imperialism and war. You are encouraged to bring a sign, and signs are also available for you to use. A good way to meet others in the community and have honest human communication.
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Saturday, 2 August, 10 -11 am – live event
SE corner of 52nd Ave. & Wadsworth, Arvada – across from Costco
Weekly Peace Vigil – Ceasefire Now!
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Saturday, 2 August, at 2:00 pm
Colorado Springs Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression announces:
On Saturday, August 2nd at 2:00 pm will be our Hands Off Protest Panel, where our members facing criminal charges for protesting will hold a discussion about defending our movements and our freedom of speech. The event will be at the UCCS Academics Office Building (1420 Austin Bluffs Pkwy) on the fourth floor. Parking will be free day of and enter through the west entrance attached to the parking lot. Refreshments and masks will be provided.
Info: cospeoplescoalition@lists.riseup.net
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Sunday, 3 August, starts at 4:00 pm
Buckley Park, East 12th, and Main Avenue., Durango 81301
Rally for Palestine
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Sunday, 3 August, 12:00 – 1:00 pm
6th Ave & Main Street, Longmont
Join Longmont for Palestine every Sunday from 12:00 – 1:00 pm on 6th & Main St. in Longmont for a weekly Palestine vigil! Bring your signs and posters or just stop on by to ask any questions you may have and get to know us! We will have signs available, as well as informational flyers, postcards, and zines.
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Gaza Extermination Camp:
On the 659th day of the genocide war on Gaza… the famine crisis deepens. The number of victims of starvation has risen to 122 Palestinians, including 83 children. The World Food Program confirms the crisis has reached unprecedented levels, while UNICEF warns that malnutrition treatments are running dangerously low. Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation army has destroyed tens of thousands of tons of humanitarian relief supplies.
The Israeli enemy’s army destroyed the cargo of 1,000 trucks loaded with food and medical supplies destined for Gaza all under the pretext that the supplies expired!!!!
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West Bank Water:
The Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine, “Water Fact,” July 28, 2025:
On four occasions over the past month Israeli settlers have vandalized the infrastructure providing water from the Ein Samiyah spring near Ramallah to the pumping station serving 110,000 Palestinians in the West Bank. Eighteen villages rely entirely on Ein Samiyah for their water and a further 14 others get part of their water from the spring. The settlers have repeatedly broken the pumps and pipelines and damaged the five wells fed by the spring which are operated by Jerusalem Water Undertaking. Settlers have attacked maintenance crews when they attempt to repair the damage. There has been no intervention by the army to prevent the attacks, or to stop the settlers from swimming in a pool fed by the spring which they have renamed ‘Shepherds Spring.’
Full article:
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Keep writing. Keep calling. Don’t stop. Stay loud.
We need to escalate global mobilization to stop the ongoing genocide against Palestinians
Demand that your elected officials take a stand and call upon Israel to honor the ceasefire and stop the bombardment immediately. As our representatives, they must apply all the power and pressure they have.
Use this tool to call and write your congressional representatives. Read our demands and send your email now.
https://fosna.good.do/gazahospital/handsoffGaza/
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CALL YOUR REP: ISRAEL IS STARVING GAZA TO DEATH.
Forced famine is here. Israel has blocked almost all humanitarian aid from entering Gaza since early March. This is not a natural disaster – it’s genocide. As Israel’s largest military funder, the United States has the power to ensure humanitarian aid access and stop the genocide.
TAKE ACTION NOW: Call Congress. It only takes 3 minutes. Tell your representatives to demand the immediate opening of ALL border crossings for unrestricted humanitarian aid and stop arming Israel with U.S. weapons.
After you fill in your info and click the “Call me” button, you’ll:
- Be taken to the next page which has a suggested call script you can use
- Receive a phone call on the number you provided and be patched through to your senators’ and representative’s offices, one after the other. After you speak to one office, press * (star) to be connected to your next representative, until you’ve called all three. If you don’t get through, leave a voicemail.
https://act.uscpr.org/a/letaidin?ms=AJP
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UN Group of Experts on DRC Report, June 2025
It’s long been obvious to anyone following Rwanda’s 30-year war of aggression in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that Rwandan President Kagame’s ultimate goal is to annex the mineral-rich Kivu Provinces bordering Rwanda. His project has come closer to fruition every year since his M23 militia re-emerged in a new push to claim territory and mines in November 2021. The June 2025 UN Group of Experts Report on DRC makes abundantly clear that he is now in de facto control of both provinces. His troops seized Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province, in January. They seized Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu Province in February.
No one could be honestly surprised, including the UN investigators, so the real question is why “the international community” let this happen. The UN Security Council has passed resolutions demanding that M23 withdraw from the territory it controls and that Rwandan troops withdraw from DRC, but no sanctions serious enough to force them to are ever imposed, neither by the UN nor by the big Western powers. The US and its NATO allies exclude Russia, North Korea, and Eritrea from the SWIFT system for conducting international financial transactions, but no one has ever proposed imposing this harshest of Western sanctions on Rwanda, not at any point in its 30 years of invasion, occupation, and plunder.
Full Article: https://blackagendareport.com/un-group-experts-drc-report-june-2025
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The climate crisis and genocide in Gaza share the same root: capitalism’s willingness to sacrifice the masses. Yet, the institutions built to resist have instead become accomplices.
Extract:
The refusal of the larger climate “movement” to take a firm, principled, and consistent stance on ending the genocide and illegal occupation of Palestine is firmly rooted in its refusal to name imperialism, colonization, and militarism as driving forces of the climate crisis. And these refusals limit the effectiveness of the climate “movement” to secure a just transition from extractive economies that sectors that view the planet as a commodity and loss of life as collateral damage and necessary sacrifices.
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‘Sanctions as deadly as war’: Lancet study finds US-led sanctions kill over 500,000 people annually
US-led sanctions have functioned as ‘silent killers’ in countries such as Iraq, Syria, and Venezuela
Broad economic sanctions, often portrayed as a less violent alternative to war, are responsible for an estimated 564,000 deaths each year – most of them children under the age of five – according to a new study published on 25 July in the Lancet Global Health.
The research analyzed data from 152 countries over a 10-year period and found the mortality toll of sanctions to be comparable to that of armed conflict.
Authored by economists Francisco Rodriguez, Silvio Rendon, and Mark Weisbrot, the study underscores the devastating impact of sanctions on public health and essential infrastructure.
By targeting key economic sectors such as finance and energy, sanctions restrict access to critical imports like medicine, food, and parts for water and electrical systems, causing widespread suffering without the visible devastation of bombs and missiles.
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Can the Poorer Nations Build a New Architecture for Development and Sovereignty?:
A horrifying statistic hovers over the poorer nations: 3.4 billion people now live in countries that spend more on interest payments for public debt than on education or health. In 2024, according to a new report from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), global public debt reached $102 trillion – a third of which is held by developing countries. The impact on these countries is especially severe: credit markets charge poorer nations far higher interest rates than they do in richer nations, making debt servicing payments proportionately higher for the Global South. The United States, for instance, pays interest rates that are, on average, two to four times lower than those faced by poorer nations.
In 2023, according to the UNCTAD analysis, the poorer nations ‘paid $25 billion more to their external creditors in debt servicing than they received in fresh disbursements, resulting in a negative net resource transfer’. In more popular language: the social wealth of developing countries is being drained by wealthy creditors – mostly located in the Global North.
The theft of social wealth from South to North has framed the work of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research for the past decade. Following the Second Dilemmas of Humanity Conference (held in Brazil in 2015), our institute was founded to provide intellectual support to political and social movements and accompany them in the fight for emancipation.
Full article: https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/tricontinental-tenth-anniversary/
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Video from 2040: “What do you do to stop it?” Did you just watch it?
“Yes, we watched hundreds of thousands of children being killed, maimed, and starved—and we just kept watching,” one writer said in response to the powerful clip.
To mark this anniversary of Israel’s yearlong assault on Gaza—which has killed, maimed, displaced, starved, and sickened millions of Palestinians with no end in sight—Palestine defenders shared a video set in the year 2040 in which children around the world ask their elders, “What were you doing during this genocide, Grandpa?”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-genocide-in-the-future
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“You cannot heal from a hit on the head when you are still being hit on the head.”
Jessie Little Doe Baird, vice-chair of Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, Massachusetts.
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They can’t work toward peace in Ukraine because it will serve Putin. They can’t work toward peace in Yemen because it will serve Iran. They can’t end the US occupation of Syria because it will serve Assad. They can’t stop military expansionism because it will serve China.
Or: Maybe they’re just warmongers.
Caitlin Johnstone, Australian journalist
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