• The anger at racist cartoons continues

    18 February 2006 issue 1988 From Socialist Worker From London’s Trafalgar Square to Ramallah in Palestine, from Lebanon to Austria, the caricatures of the prophet Mohammed, first printed in a Danish paper, have sparked rage Some 20,000 protesters filled Trafalgar Square in London on Saturday of last week for a rally against Islamophobia and incitement.…

  • How might we live?

    By Laila El-Haddad From a-mother-from-Gaza.blogspot.com Tuesday, February 14, 2006 The shells are falling again. Interspersed with the occasional sonic boom. It’s like a mix and match Monday special. The army once compared it to a “hat of tricks”. Let’s see what we pull out today. There’s the sonic boom, which after a brief hiatus, is…

  • Help Needed in Hebron

    By Katie Settler Grafiti on a Palestinian home in Tel Rumeida There is enough drama here for 10 seasons of some ridiculous reality show. I really think that there should be such a show in Hebron because it would allow the rest of the world to see what is going on here. If people knew,…

  • Just Another Day in Tel Rumeida

    By Katie “Security Post” in Hebron-Photo By Chris February 11, 2006: At approximately 11:05 a.m., three eggs were thrown out of the window of the Beit Hadassah settlement at two HRWs (human rights workers) and a group of Palestinian school girls on the street below. The soldier on duty at the time called for reinforcements…

  • Activist’s parents recall Palestinian strife

    By Tony Lystra Gazette-Times reporter Originally published in the Corvallis Gazette-Times Corvallis crowd hears legacy of nonviolent stance When Rachel Corrie was 2, she looked up at her mother and asked an unsettling question: “Mom,” she said, “Is brave part of growing up?” More than two decades later, just before her 24th birthday, Rachel was…