Fred Fuentes [Green Left - Australia] 14 February 2009 - Palestine solidarity activists in Sydney have launched a campaign targeting Max Brenner Chocolates, a 100% Israeli-owned company belonging to the Strauss Group, as part of the growing international boycott Israel movement.

The Strauss Group is the second-largest Israeli food and beverage company.

At approximately 10pm on Feb. 18, students of Take Back NYU! took over the Kimmel Marketplace. They blockaded the doors and declared an occupation!

They presented the following demands to the NYU administration:

DEMANDS

We, the students of NYU, declare an occupation of this space. This occupation is the culmination of a two-year campaign by the Take Back NYU! coalition, and of campaigns from years past, in whose footsteps we follow.

Glen Ford [Black Agenda Report (BAR)] 18 February 2009 -"The corporate Right and the Israel lobby act in tandem." African Americans must take a leadership role in the movement to boycott and disinvest in Israel, both for reasons of elemental justice and to defend our own people from the raging rightwing, corporate assault, of which the pro-Israel lobby is an integral component.

February 17, 2009 - "For the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent."--Martin Luther King Jr., Beyond Vietnam, April 4, 1967

We salute the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) in Durban, and Western Australian dock worker members of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), for refusing to handle Israeli cargo.

Kim Peterson [Dissident Voice] - It seems there is a backlash to invading and killing and that is being felt within the world of sports, including the genteel sport of tennis.