Tag: Bethlehem

  • PNN: Gathering Steam in South Bethlehem

    Nonviolent Activism Gathers Steam in Southern Bethlehem by Sami Awad, April 27th, 2007 To see video, click HERE The southern villages of Bethlehem have been organizing weekly nonviolent resistance activities to the building of the Apartheid Wall that will ultimately separate the farmers from these villages from 70% of their agricultural land. The activity this…

  • IMEMC: Against the Wall near Bethlehem

    Peaceful demonstration against the illegal wall and settlements near Bethlehem Polly Bangoriad, 27 April 2007 On Friday midday Palestinian, Israeli and international peace activists held a non-violent demonstration near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, protesting against illegal Israeli settlement expansion and the Illegal Wall. Israeli army watch over non-violent demonstration – Photo by…

  • Mass anti-apartheid demonstration in South Bethlehem, this Friday

    A Mass Demonstration Against the Annexation Wall, South Bethlehem FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 25 April 2007 This Friday, April 27, Palestinian residents of the south Bethlehem area are calling on international and Israeli anti-Apartheid activists to join them in a mass demonstration against Israel’s Apartheid Wall. Palestinians must take a bypass road to the Beit Fajjar…

  • PNN: From Palestine to Virginia Tech

    From Palestine to Virginia Tech: We are with you in this Time of Pain by Sami Awad, 20 April 2007 Two days ago a tragic event took place in Virginia Tech in the US that shocked not only the people of the United States but people all across the globe. A violent massacre took place…

  • IMEMC: Bethlehem tree planting in memorial of Virginia students

    Bethlehem: activists plant trees in memorial to students killed in Virginia by Najib Farag, April 21, 2007 Palestinian residents and international peace activists, including Americans, and Israelis, held on Friday a protest against the Israeli Annexation Wall surrounding and suffocating Um Salmouna village, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and planted 32 trees to…