Irish prisoners create prison committee in jail http://realisticbird.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/irish-prisoners-create-prison-committee-in-jail/  We are receiving direct information from David Heap one of the Canadian prisoners who was abused and tasered by Israeli Commandos as their boat was seized. This is a serious development and Sinn Fein’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson Padraig MacLochlainn TD is currently speaking to the Irish Foreign Ministry to seek clarification from our prisoners directly as to whether any of them were tasered or otherwise injured by Israeli forces.We are also being told that the Irish prisoners have organised themselves to ensure their basic rights are honoured during their captivity. We are also told that Mags O Brien and Zoe Lawler, and the other women are being held separately from the men. The prisoners committee is seeking direct contact with the women prisoners.Our Canadian brother David has managed to smuggle the letter out to the world. His letter confirms that the Irish prisoners, 6 of whom are Irish Republicans, have created a Political Prisoners Committee. The four Canadians imprisoned with the Irish have joined the Irish Prisoners Committee for a united front against their captors:David Heap of the Canadian boat states:““The four of us, Ehab and I (Cdn), Michael (Aus) and Hassan (UK) have joined with the Irish in their political prisoners’ committee in order to press our collective demands:· association in the block – i.e. open cells· adequate writing and reading material· free communication with outside world – i.e. regular phone calls· information about shipmate women held at same prison Additional information tells us that David and possibly others were tasered when the ships were boarded“Although I was tasered during the assault on the Tahrir, and bruised during forcible removal dockside” 



Act Now: Rafah border crossing closed for 6 days http://palsolidarity.org/2011/ 11/act-now-rafah-border- crossing-closed-for-6-days/                                             
Only hours after activists from popular committees and youth movements throughout the West Bank formally presented the Egyptian ambassador, His Excellency Yasser Othman, with an appeal and a petition to open the Rafah crossing unconditionally and permanently, the Palestinians of Gaza learned that the crossing will in fact be closed for six consecutive days during the Eid holiday. A petition was originally issued by Gaza-based civil society sectors including academics, students, workers, and youth. It was immediately supported publically by Egyptian revolutionaries and grass-roots organizations as well as renowned International human rights defenders such as Desmond Tutu and Richard Falk.