Category: Press Releases
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National Building Museum cancels Caterpillar Inc. award ceremony!
7 September 2011 | Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice ACT NOW: Stop Rewarding Complicity in Human Rights Abuses Altogether! Due to help and pressure from individuals and social justice groups across the country, the National Building Museum has informed us that it has canceled the public award ceremony to present Caterpillar Inc. with…
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Statement for USS Liberty memorial service
7 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza This statement was submitted for tonight’s memorial service off the coast of the Gaza Strip. We join Larry Toenjes, Joe and Sherrie Wagner, Rusty Glenn, and all supporters of the s/v Liberty in remembering the deaths of 34 USS Liberty servicemen killed by the State of Israel…
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The Palmer/Uribe Report: another attempt by Israel to whitewash murder?
1 September 2011 | Free Gaza Movement On May 31, 2010, Israeli commandos brutally attacked Freedom Flotilla 1, killing eight Turkish and one American passenger on board the Mavi Marmara, most having been killed at close range, execution style. They injured more than 50 other passengers, both on the Mavi Marmara and on the other…
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Trial of West Bank organizer, Bassem Tamimi, to resume Sunday
30 August 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee After telling the judge that he does not recognize the legitimacy of the court and of military law during his arraignment on June 5th, Bassem Tamimi’s trial is expected to open this coming Sunday, when prosecution witnesses will take the stand for the first time. On June 14th, the EU…
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Global actions target Egyptian embassies to break Israel’s closure of Gaza
26 August 2011 | International Campaign to Open the Rafah Border Fed up with the closure of Gaza that has kept more than a million and a half Palestinians locked in to the strip’s tight borders, a beacon call is coming from Gaza and resonating across to Egypt, to break Israel’s siege and re-open the…