Tag: Action Alert

  • IMORB: End the siege on Gaza, open the Rafah border

    Dear friends, Please take a few minutes on Monday to call the Egyptian embassy in your country to demand the Rafah border be opened! Since June 13, when International Movement to Open the Rafah Border members set their sit-in at the Rafah Gate, we witnessed the Egyptian authorities’ collaboration in the Gaza siege enforced by…

  • Viva Palestine convoy updates

    14 July 2009 2 pm the final negotiations are still underway at the moment; it looks like we may have an extension of the stay beyond 24 hours (all those protests in the US have paid off); all of our aid is permitted to enter, but not the vehicles (unless there’s a miraculous breakthrough in…

  • Campaign to release Palestinian activist arrested in Bil’in

    14 July 2009 Adeeb Abu Rahme, a leading Palestinian non-violent peace activist was arrested in the weekly Bil’in demonstration against the Apartheid Wall (see the video, Adeeb is the protester in the orange shirt with the mega-phone). The Israeli military is charging Adeeb with “incitement to violence,” a charge that could bring a serious jail…