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Egyptian riot police are firing tear gas canisters bearing the label "Made in U.S.A" against street demonstrations in Cairo, according to protesters who provided ABC News with pictures of the canisters.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/world/middleeast/02mideast.html?_r=1
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Tear Gas Kills a Palestinian Protester
By ISABEL KERSHNER
Published: January 1, 2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tear_gas
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Tear gas, formally known as a lachrymatory agent or lachrymator (from lacrima meaning "a tear" in Latin), is a non-lethal chemical compound that stimulates the corneal nerves in the eyes to cause tearing, pain, and even blindness. Common lachrymators include OC, CS, CR, CN, nonivamide, bromoacetone, phenacyl bromide, xylyl bromide and syn-propanethial-S-oxide (from onions). Lacrymators often share the structural element Z=C-C-X, where Z indicates carbon or oxygen, and X indicates bromide or chloride.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-klein/blinding-the-witnesses_b_600773.html
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Blinding the Witnesses
There is something way too literal about Israel shooting out the eye of a witness to its crimes.
This photograph of Emily Henochowicz's bandaged face needs to be seen by the world.
Like many of us around the world, Henochowicz, a 21-year-old Cooper Union art student, joined protests on Monday against Israel's outrageous attack on the humanitarian flotilla. But unfortunately, the protest Emily attended was in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and like so many protests in the West Bank, it was violently attacked by the IDF. According to a report from the International Solidarity Movement, Emily was "hit in the face with a tear gas projectile fired directly at her by an Israeli soldier during the demonstration at Qalandiya checkpoint today." Sören Johanssen, a Swedish activist standing beside Henochowicz, reported that, "They fired many canisters at us in rapid succession. One landed on either side of Emily, then the third one hit her in the face."
This courageous young woman is now the wrenching embodiment of a policy that systematically targets witnesses and human rights advocates -- from Stop the Wall's Mohammad Othman, arrested on his way back from a European speaking tour, to the vicious smear campaign waged against Justice Richard Goldstone.
Visiting Emily's homepage, I was struck that eyeballs are a recurring theme in her work. Not surprising, I suppose, for a visual artist. But an eyeball was how she chose to present herself to the world.
And there are eyeballs all over this beautiful piece:
She devoted her life to seeing, to witnessing. And for this she lost her left eye.
We owe it to Emily to look at her tragedy -- both its physical and its metaphorical implications -- as hard as we possibly can.
This post originally appeared on MondoWeiss.net.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/05-0
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Editor's note: This article corrects an error and adds some updates to an earlier version that appeared yesterday.
The Israeli peace movement is coming back to life, and it's a very courteous movement indeed. When activists find things marked "Made in USA" lying on the ground they deliver them directly to the U.S. ambassador to Israel. The other night they returned a bunch of empty tear gas canisters, all marked "made in USA," fired by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. They're used to break up nonviolent protests against the Israeli-built wall that is tearing Palestinian life apart.
One canister made in the USA killed Jawaher Abu Rahmah, in the village of Bil'in, on the last day of 2010. Another one killed Jawaher's brother, Bassem, in April, 2009.
Apparently the ambassador did not appreciate the courteous gesture. The police quickly arrived, broke up the action, arrested eleven people, and found a way to keep them jailed on trumped up charges.
But these canisters, and the Israeli soldiers who shoot them, don't discriminate against Palestinians. American-made tear gas canisters are used against American citizens too.
Just a few days before Bassem Abu Rahmah was killed by a tear gas canister blow to the chest, an American volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement, Tristan Anderson, was hit in the head by the same kind of canister in the village of Nil'in. Anderson survived, though surgeons had to remove part of his brain. Another American, Emily Henochowicz, lost her eye in June, 2010 when she was hit by a tear gas canister during a protest at a West Bank checkpoint.
The Israelis used two kinds of tear gas canisters on New Year's Eve when Jawaher Abu Rahmah died. One photographed by Joseph Dana, media spokesman for the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee., had the letters "CTS" stamped on it.
CTS, Combined Tactical Systems, is a brand name used by (or subsidiary of) Combined Systems Inc. based in Jamestown, Pennsylvania (though the American company is owned by an Israeli, according to Dana). There's plenty of evidence that the Israelis get tear gas from CSI. It was a CTS canister that killed Bassem Abu Rahmah.
The Israeli peace movement is coming back to life, and it's a very courteous movement indeed. When activists find things marked "Made in USA" lying on the ground they deliver them directly to the U.S. ambassador to Israel. The other night they returned a bunch of empty tear gas canisters, all marked "made in USA," fired by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. They're used to break up nonviolent protests against the Israeli-built wall that is tearing Palestinian life apart.
One canister made in the USA killed Jawaher Abu Rahmah, in the village of Bil'in, on the last day of 2010. Another one killed Jawaher's brother, Bassem, in April, 2009.
Apparently the ambassador did not appreciate the courteous gesture. The police quickly arrived, broke up the action, arrested eleven people, and found a way to keep them jailed on trumped up charges.
But these canisters, and the Israeli soldiers who shoot them, don't discriminate against Palestinians. American-made tear gas canisters are used against American citizens too.
Just a few days before Bassem Abu Rahmah was killed by a tear gas canister blow to the chest, an American volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement, Tristan Anderson, was hit in the head by the same kind of canister in the village of Nil'in. Anderson survived, though surgeons had to remove part of his brain. Another American, Emily Henochowicz, lost her eye in June, 2010 when she was hit by a tear gas canister during a protest at a West Bank checkpoint.
The Israelis used two kinds of tear gas canisters on New Year's Eve when Jawaher Abu Rahmah died. One photographed by Joseph Dana, media spokesman for the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee., had the letters "CTS" stamped on it.
CTS, Combined Tactical Systems, is a brand name used by (or subsidiary of) Combined Systems Inc. based in Jamestown, Pennsylvania (though the American company is owned by an Israeli, according to Dana). There's plenty of evidence that the Israelis get tear gas from CSI. It was a CTS canister that killed Bassem Abu Rahmah.
http://whosarat.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=2002179&trail=50
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Kent police would not discuss the incident, but said one of the officers, Lt. John Altomare, was disciplined, although they would not reveal what the discipline was.
An FBI spokesman says the agency is reviewing the circumstances of the incident and will gather facts to determine whether Parham's civil rights were violated.
Published on Thursday, March 9, 2000 in In These Times
Chemical Cops:
Tear Gas And Pepper Spray Can Be Deadly
by Terry Allen
The tons of tear gas and pepper spray munitions Seattle police used on demonstrators and bystanders alike at the anti-WTO demonstrations last December contained chemicals implicated in lung problems, eye damage and even death. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the effects of these chemical weapons are not always confined to 15 or so minutes of intense pain and incapacitation. According to manufacturers' documents, military research and medical literature, each of these agents carries short- and long-term health risks; various formulations contain potential carcinogens.
Tear gas and pepper spray cause health problems even when used within guidelines on healthy people. But
http://www.media-criticism.com/IMF_WTO_Protests_2000.html
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Let’s not forget what both protests were about. The World Bank and International Monetary Fund each function as lenders to corrupt business and governmental elites throughout the world. By demanding austere structural adjustments of impoverished countries in exchange for loans, the World Bank particularly assists in the creation of economic despair for billions of people.
Meanwhile, the WTO is a secret, unelected committee that determines whether laws passed in member countries (often by great popular struggle) to protect the environment or consumers from faulty products can stand. The WTO is another of President Clinton’s efforts to place the rights of multinational, corporate elites ahead of nations.
Solarity with Tristan Anderson
http://justicefortristan.org/
http://palsolidarity.org/tag/tear-gas/
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Combined Systems Inc.: stop providing equipment that Israel misuses to kill and maim unarmed protesters
3 January 2010: Open letter to Combined Systems Inc written by Palestine solidarity groupsFrom:
Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel (adalahny.org)
CodePink: Women for Peace (www.codepink4peace.org)
Jewish Voice for Peace (www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org)
The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (www.endtheoccupation.org)
Dear Combined Systems Inc.,
As US groups committed to justice and peace, we are writing to ask that Combined Systems Inc. cease providing CSI equipment to … Continue reading
http://www.aheadontheleft.blogspot.com/
http://www.aheadontheleft.blogspot.com/ oooooooooooooops, some of the pictures are from this link. ...cal
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