VIDEO-PALESTINE-Matthew Cassel: Activist journalism as resistance http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/47517
Matthew Cassel, former editor of Electronic Intifada, speaks on activist media and the Arab Spring at the 2011 Resistance Conference in Sydney Australia on May 7. See http://www.resistance.org.au/conference2011/agenda for more information. The conference was held in the Redfern Community Centre.
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http://www.innercitypress.com/sc7syria050611.html
UNITED NATIONS, May 6 -- There was a fight between two members of the Security Council in closed door consultations about whether the crackdown in Syria is a threat to international peace and security, UN envoy on Council Resolution 1559 Terje Roed-Larsen told the Press on Friday morning.
Further reporting by Inner City Press identifies the two members as France and Russia. Specifically, multiple sources tell Inner City Press that Russian Permanent Representative Vitaly Churkin re-entered the Council and took issue with his French counterpart Gerard Araud, saying that the 1559 briefing is about Lebanon, not Syria.
Other Western members of the Council note that they too, not only France, raised Syria, as linked with the situation in Syria. But, they say, Churkin was in and out of the meeting, and heard only Araud, who is this month's Security Council president.
The result of this statement by Roed-Larsen, who refused to answer Inner City Press about him taking a UN staff member with him on a purportedly personal trip to Bahrain last month, were reports that the Western drive for a resolution on Syria was raised and shot down on Friday.
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