Comments on: The last colony http://www.independentworldreport.com/2009/09/the-last-colony/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-last-colony Journalism beyond borders Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:37:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Amitai Black http://www.independentworldreport.com/2009/09/the-last-colony/comment-page-1/#comment-547 Amitai Black Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:07:56 +0000 http://www.independentworldreport.com/?p=151#comment-547 I am urging everyone to join an international boycott of Carlos Santana and former Police frontman, Stink. This week Santana and Stink will be playing in a middle eastern country that oppresses its own aboriginal natives, occupies land of it's Arab neighbor, built a wall that imprisons Spanish Sahara's poulous and chokes off its economy, has created an ongoing refugee crisis, and deployed its air force to straff two refugee camps with napalm and fragmentation bombs. Peaceful demonstrations against the occupation are ruthlessly suppressed with arbitrary arrests, indefinite imprisonment without any trial, and torture. I am talking about Morocco. And while illegally occupying their southern neighbor, Morocco adamantly protests Spain's two small enclaves on Morocco's northern coast. http://www.independentworldreport.com/2009/09/the-last-colony/ Santana and Stink insist on playing in Morocco -- despite pleas by native Moroccan Berbers whose indigenous culture and language is suppressed, and the Sahrawi people of neighboring Spanish Sahara, illegally occupied by Morocco which moved in after the Sahrawi expelled colonial Spain in 1975. You probably have not heard about Morroco's attrocities in the news, thanks to Arab world's vast power and oil wealth. To illustrate how absurd is their power, consider that just the week before agreeing to play in Morocco, Santana and Stink announced their boycott of Israel for its "occupation" of Judea (land of the Jews), which the Arab-controlled media calls the "West Bank" -- a land area equal to 1% of the Spanish Sahara. I am urging everyone to join an international boycott of Carlos Santana and former Police frontman, Stink. This week Santana and Stink will be playing in a middle eastern country that oppresses its own aboriginal natives, occupies land of it’s Arab neighbor, built a wall that imprisons Spanish Sahara’s poulous and chokes off its economy, has created an ongoing refugee crisis, and deployed its air force to straff two refugee camps with napalm and fragmentation bombs. Peaceful demonstrations against the occupation are ruthlessly suppressed with arbitrary arrests, indefinite imprisonment without any trial, and torture. I am talking about Morocco. And while illegally occupying their southern neighbor, Morocco adamantly protests Spain’s two small enclaves on Morocco’s northern coast. http://www.independentworldreport.com/2009/09/the-last-colony/

Santana and Stink insist on playing in Morocco — despite pleas by native Moroccan Berbers whose indigenous culture and language is suppressed, and the Sahrawi people of neighboring Spanish Sahara, illegally occupied by Morocco which moved in after the Sahrawi expelled colonial Spain in 1975.

You probably have not heard about Morroco’s attrocities in the news, thanks to Arab world’s vast power and oil wealth. To illustrate how absurd is their power, consider that just the week before agreeing to play in Morocco, Santana and Stink announced their boycott of Israel for its “occupation” of Judea (land of the Jews), which the Arab-controlled media calls the “West Bank” — a land area equal to 1% of the Spanish Sahara.

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