Woody Guthrie and Left Settler-Colonialism Woody Guthrie died in late-1967, a few months after I was born. Many people understand him to be one of the great “American” (yes, the quotes are deliberate) folk singers and song-writers, and many of those people are also aware that Guthrie was an avowed socialist and anti-fascist. His guitar famously displayed the regular message, threat, or promise: “This machine kills fascists.” Believe it or not, there was a time when this was not an unusual sentiment, way …
Tag: Israel
It’s December 19th, 2023. We’re coming up to the season when self-described Christians start saying lovely things like “peace on Earth, goodwill to all,” and paying lip service to the teachings of a Hebrew Palestinian carpenter with …
Tha Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) followed the corporate media newswire framing for its headline on May 11, 2021: Israelis are “killed” with the active voice; Palestinians “die” with the passive voice. Even the headlines are colonial. …
Speech by Paul Burrows (originally posted to Media Co-op and ZNet) When you board a civilian ship in international waters, and proceed to threaten, shoot, kidnap, or rob its inhabitants, you are generally called a “pirate” …
Originally published on the Electronic Intifada website on 2 October 2005. TO PROFESS “NEUTRALITY” IN THE FACE OF INJUSTICE IS TO SIDE WITH THE OPPRESSOR, SAYS CANPALNET-WINNIPEG In a press release dated September 28th, 2005, B’Nai Brith Canada claimed that the 2nd Annual Canada Palestine Film Festival, which opens today at Winnipeg’s prestigious Cinematheque …
Originally published on the Electronic Intifada website on March 21, 2003 Those of us in the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and involved in Palestine solidarity work more generally, are deeply shocked and horrified by the recent …
By Paul Burrows Originally published in ZNet (August 26, 2002) Binyamin Netanyahu is coming to Winnipeg on September 9th, and the local Canada-Palestine Support Network (CanPalNet-Winnipeg) is helping to organize a peaceful information picket and protest. …
[NOTE: 30 years ago I wrote this letter to the student newspaper at the U of M that amounted to my first public expression on Palestine. It was in defence of a (then-unknown) grad student named …