Tag: Action Alert

  • Free Gaza Movement launches its “Right to Read” Campaign

    Free Gaza Movement 9 June 2009 In partnership with Al-Aqsa University, the Free Gaza Movement (FG) is launching its “Right to Read” campaign which will use the FG fleet to deliver textbooks and other educational supplies to universities throughout the occupied Gaza Strip. “This is not a charitable endeavor,” notes FG Chair Huwaida Arraf. “Rather…

  • Royal Ontario Museum proceeds with unlawful exhibit

    Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East 7 June 2009 Dear Friends, Later this month, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) will be showcasing artifacts illegally seized by Israel in 1967 after it occupied East Jerusalem. In cooperating with the Israel Antiquities Authority to import and exhibit the Dead Sea Scrolls, the ROM would…

  • Prevent Alstom from building the Haramain Express Railway

    Saudi Arabia awarded French company Alstom a multi-million dollar contract for the construction of Haramain Express Railway, to link the holy cities of Makkah and Madina. Alstom is in violation of international law for its part in the construction of the Jerusalem Light Rail, which will link illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory…

  • Campaign to release Samieh Jabbarin

    Palestinian Prisoners 31 May 2009 Dear friends, The solidarity struggle with Palestinian theatre-artist and activist Samieh Jabbarin, who is still under house-arrest in Um Al Fahm, has gained significant resonance in the past two weeks thanks to the publication of journalist Aviva Lori’s extensive coverage of the affair in “Haaretz” weekend supplement in Hebrew (22.5.09)…

  • Campaign to release the Palestinian activist arrested in al-Ma’sara

    15 May 2009 The Al-Ma’sara Committee against the Wall and Settlements has been organizing and participating in demonstrations against the confiscation of their land for the past two and a half years. Participants and committee members are known for their strict adherence to non-violent tactics in demonstrations. While the protesters maintained their usual tactics on…