Category: Press Releases
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Solidarity with the Palestinian Freedom Riders
10 November 2011 | Jewish Voice for Peace On November 15th, Palestinian activists will attempt to board segregated Israeli settler public transport headed to occupied East Jerusalem in an act of civil disobedience inspired by the Freedom Riders of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. Fifty years after the U.S. Freedom Riders staged mixed-race bus rides…
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Palestinian Freedom Riders to challenge segregation by riding settler buses to Jerusalem
7 November 2011 On Tuesday, November 15th, 2011, Palestinian activists will reenact the US Civil Rights Movement’s Freedom Rides to the American South by boarding segregated Israeli public transportation in the West Bank to travel to occupied East Jerusalem. Next Tuesday, Palestinian activists will attempt to board segregated Israeli public transportation headed from inside the West…
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Act Now: Rafah border crossing closed for 6 days
5 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza 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…
