Latin America

This Week in Palestine Jan. 18-24

Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for January 18 to the 24, 2014. As no progress is made in the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, army attacks this week leave two Palestinians killed and dozens more injured.

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The Internet’s Own Boy: Film on Aaron Swartz

One year ago this month, the young Internet freedom activist and groundbreaking programmer Aaron Swartz took his own life. Swartz died shortly before he was set to go to trial for downloading millions of academic articles from servers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology based on the belief that the articles should be freely available online.

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Ban Ki-moon to Cuba Next Week

The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki–moon, will travel to Cuba next week to attend the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) summit, reported dpa news.

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This Week in Palestine Week (Jan. 11-17)

Israeli army attacks targeting Palestinian communities in Gaza and the West Bank continued this week leaving six injured, meanwhile European countries criticize Israel over new settlements plans in occupied Palestinians areas.

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This Week in Palestine (Jan 4-10)

The Israeli army killed one Palestinian and left 30 others injured this week, meanwhile the Israeli government announced more homes to be built in West Bank settlements. These stories and more, coming up.

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“It Was Time to Do More Than Protest”

One of the great mysteries of the Vietnam War era has been solved. On March 8, 1971, a group of activists — including a cabdriver, a day care director and two professors — broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania. They stole every document they found and then leaked many to the press, including details about FBI abuses and the then-secret counter-intelligence program to infiltrate, monitor and disrupt social, political movements, nicknamed COINTELPRO.

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