Author: ISM Media Group

  • Homes Rebuilt by Peace Activist Demolished Again, ISM Digest

    Homes Rebuilt by Peace Activist Demolished Again 25 April 2007 1. From Palestine to Virginia Tech: We are with you in this Time of Pain 2. Irish Peace Laureate Shot By Israeli Troops at Non-Violent Protest – Why Isn’t This News? 3. Video: Puerto Rican activist arrested at Bil’in demonstration against Apartheid Wall, judge throws…

  • CommonDreams: Irish Peace Laureate Shot By Israeli Troops at Non-Violent Protest – Why Isn’t This News?

    Irish Peace Laureate Shot By Israeli Troops at Non-Violent Protest – Why Isn’t This News? by Robert Naiman, 25 April 2007 Mariad Macguire, nose bleed after tear gas inhalation, Photo: ISM Martinez If you listened to Democracy Now on Monday, you already know the following: Irish Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire was among a number…

  • Latifah, A Mother of Seven Prisoners

    Call from a Mother of Seven Prisoners 23 April 2007 Latifah Naji Abo Homeed, 61 years old, lives in Al Am’ary Refugee Camp in the city of Ramallah – Palestine. Of her 10 children, one killed during 1994 by Israeli military & seven have been imprisoned by Israel. She longs to see them but has…

  • Jaffa residents at risk of eviction and demolition again, demonstration this Friday

    Jaffa residents at risk of eviction and demolition again from Act Left 24 April 2007 A wave of eviction and demolition orders has been issued in Jaffa lately. The Israel Land administration and the Amidar company have issued about 500 such orders, mostly in the Ajami and Jabaliya neighborhoods. Thousands of people stand to become…

  • Building Economic Independence

    Building Economic Independence by Sam Bahour, 19 April 2007 Note: The following is a talk given at the Second Annual Conference on Non-Violent Popular Resistance in the Palestinian village of Bil’in. First, allow me to salute the people of Bil’in. Your steadfastness is being registered in the annals of history with every meter of Wall…