Embassy of Spain: 2375 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20037
Washington DC - The Moroccan American community in Washington DC will organize a peace March in support of the Moroccan [Western] Sahara on Saturday November 27, 2010. The march will start at the Spanish embassy in Washington DC located at 2375 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, two blocks from Foggy Bottom metro station, and will end at the White House, 1600 Pennsylvania avenue NW.
[Reuters/Jean Blondin] Abraham Serfaty spent decades campaigning for human rights in Morocco.
Moroccan Jewish political activist Abraham Serfaty died on Thursday (November 18th) in a Marrakech hospital at the age of 84. He was known to be one of the strongest dissidents against the regime of the late King Hassan II, and was arrested several times, both before and after Morocco's independence.
"Abraham Serfaty was a leading activist and a founder of the New Leftist Movement," said Unified Socialist Party (PSU) Secretary-General Mohamed Moujahid. "He also worked for the independence of Morocco, and offered great sacrifices as part of the national struggle during the colonization. He broke records in political detention in his endeavor to spread democracy and achieve social justice."
Washington / Morocco Board News Service- The students' union organized a walk out during my class to protest the quiz I had scheduled. The quiz was five questions long: define four terms and a short answer comprehension question. It covered the material I had taught the previous class. I told my students it would be easy and was an important in assessing their note-taking abilities. I managed to convince many of my students the quiz was a good idea, but the union persuaded more to walk out. There was a stand-off. Eventually, I relented.
Washington / Morocco Board News Service- In a dramatic reversal, Spain's largest and Most read newspaper “El-Pais”, that has been reporting, like most spanish Media, with prejudice, a high number of civilian deaths among the [Western Sahara] locals, has confirmed that the figures of deaths and injured advanced by the Moroccan authorities are true.
According to El-Pais, Peter Bouckaert, a director at Human Rights Watch, “has expressed its skepticism about the figure of 36 civilian deaths provided by the Polisario Front, as it has not found any evidence to support it.” Mr. Peter Bouckaert went on to say that that “Moroccan security forces were not carrying firearms when they began the removal of the 20,000 people who were camped for a month in Agdaym Izik, Near[Western Sahara City of] Laayoune.”
Washington / Morocco Board News Service- Since the events of [the Western Sahara city of] Laayoune, on November 8, a waltz of inaccurate, false statement and fabrications from the Media in Spain is falling on its southern neighbor, Morocco.
The Latest blow: the announcement of death of two citizens who are very much alive and an invention of quote attributed to the head of a Moroccan NGO.
The Spanish news agency Europa Press had announced the death of two citizens , Abdessalam Bouâsriya Al Ansari and Ahmed Ben Ghalia, but they have not left this world yet. Europa Press had announced that these two citizens were killed by the Moroccan police. Their own denial were relayed by Morocco’s press Agency MAP (with copies of their IDs) is sufficient to realize the seriousness of the false reporting of this Spanish agency.
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Washington / Morocco Board News Service- in this video we see rioters, in the aftermath of police attempt to shut dow a protest camp at[the western sahara city] of Layoune, who were hacking at security agent laying wounded on the ground. individuals with machetes cutting away at security forces. Others are seen peeing on corpses of Moroccan security forces that were spread out in the middle of the highway.
Moroccan security forces taking down tents at protest camps during their intervention to shut the protest camp are also shown here.
Washington / Morocco Board News Service - The Affair of the news channel Al Jazeera continues to generate a stir in Rabat. The Moroccan authorities are not all convinced that the treatment by Al Jazeera of Morocco's related news is innocent.
On Monday, the Qatar-based channel has reached a new level, say Moroccan officials. Al Jazeera spoke in its coverage of events in the city of Laayoune, "genocide of the Saharawi people" by the Moroccan security forces. Terminology that even the news agency of the [Western Sahara Separatist Group] Polisario has not used.
Washington / Morocco Board News Service- The Guardian, a UK daily known for its Liberal-Center-Left editorial line, recently published an article that defended the Spanish media campaign against Morocco, and initiated a comment by a Spanish journalist who rationalized Spain’s anti-Morocco media campaign as “a historical guilt”. Supposedly, this “historical guilt” centers on an alleged French-American plot that duped the late Spanish dictator Franco into leaving the Western Sahara for the Moroccans.
Guy Hedgecoe Restrictions on the Spanish media’s coverage of the recent dismantling of the Gdaym Izik protest camp in Western Sahara were such, it is amazing so many column inches have been filled on the issue. With some newspaper reporters mysteriously told at Rabat airport that their tickets were not valid to travel to Laâyoune, and others, such as two correspondents from La Ser radio station, expelled from the region, it hasn’t been easy to cover the story.
This might explain why there has been so much confusion over what exactly happened on November 8, when Moroccan troops entered the camp to bring an end to the protest.
Washington / Morocco Board News Service- The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) denied a request by the Polisario Front to send a commission to investigate the 8 November clashes in the [Western Sahara city of] city of Laayoune. Violence had erupted after the Moroccan government evacuated the camp of Gdim Izik camp, where over 20,000 civilians were protesting social conditions. Morocco's Permanent Representative to the UN, Mr. Mohamed Loulichki, welcomed “the high sense of responsibility” demonstrated by the UNSC and the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Sahara Christopher Ross.
As I have been traveling around the U.S. discussing my new book Arab Voices, attempting to shatter the myths that many Americans have about Arabs, I frequently get the question, "but do Arabs understand us?".
I acknowledge that just as there are many myths that cloud Americans' understanding of the Arab World, there are myths believed by many Arabs that distort their understanding of America and the American people.
Washington / Morocco Board News Service- The hammam is a ubiquitous feature of Morocco's medinas. Every neighborhood has one, and you would be hard pressed to find anyone who hasn't ever visited one, or even doesn't use one regularly. Yet, despite its prominence, I feel like the hammam is very difficult to describe. Yes, it is a public bath, but you don't go there just to bathe. Yes, you can get a steam and a massage, but it is not a spa or luxury retreat. There is a purpose to going to the hammam, but its function is not purely utilitarian.
Washington / Morocco Board News Service - The sad events of Black Monday in the southern Moroccan city of Laayoun has shown the world that Moroccans from all walks of life are solidly behind Morocco's government on the Western Sahara. Proponents and opponents of the Moroccan government were outraged with the level of violence and destruction by Algerian agents who infiltrated the ranks of peaceful Moroccan Sahrawis. The Algerian plot to use a social protest in the Moroccan Sahara to divert attention from the social malaise and volatile political impasse in Algeria may have misfired.
Washington / Morocco Board News Service- The notorious Spanish reporter, Mr. Ignacio Cambrero, who works for El Pais, the widest selling non-sports newspaper in Spain, likes to give lessons of "professionalism and ethics" to Moroccan media, did not peep a word of his latest troubles with the Algerian secret services.
According to Spanish sources, a few months ago Mr. Ignacio Cambrero has discovered a bug in his personal laptop. After it was by Mr. Cambrero, the Spanish Intelligence services determined that the signals sent from the device went to a computer housed at the headquarters of ENTV, the Algerian state television Service.
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