Dana Elborno | The Electronic Intifada 4 January 2010 Though I have lived most of my life in and around Chicago, it has never been my complete home. My sisters and I were born as first-generation Palestinian-Americans coming from Kuwait ...
Read More »Fanning the Flames of Freedom from Cairo to Gaza and Beyond
Emily Ratner | Dissident Voice January 3 2010 “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class–it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of freedom.” –Anna Julia Cooper, ...
Read More »Gaza Freedom Marchers issue the ‘Cairo Declaration’ to end Israeli Apartheid
1 January 2010 Gaza Freedom Marchers approved today a declaration aimed at accelerating the global campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli Apartheid. Roughly 1400 activists from 43 countries converged in Cairo on their way to Gaza to ...
Read More »Gaza Freedom March activists target Egypt’s complicity
Sayed Dhansay | The Electronic Intifada 31 December 2009 It was another eventful day here in Cairo at the inaugural Gaza Freedom March (GFM). On Tuesday night, organizers informed the 1,362-strong delegation that only 100 of them had been selected ...
Read More »Gaza’s border must be opened NOW
Pam Rasmussen | The Electronic Intifada 29 December 2009 Tell Egypt you stand in solidarity with Gaza – use this online form to send a letter to the Palestine Division at the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cairo, and to ...
Read More »Gaza Freedom March: 85 year old Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein begins hunger strike to open Gaza border
Gaza Freedom March 28 December 2009 Hedy Epstein, the 85 year old Holocaust survivor and peace activist, announced that she will begin a hunger strike today as a response to the Egyptian government’s refusal to allow the Gaza Freedom March ...
Read More »Peace activist finally allowed to return to UK
Herald Express 21 July 2009 A totnes peace activist who spent a year in Gaza has returned to the UK. Jenny Linnell flew back from the Middle East in London at the weekend following weeks of being stuck at the ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »‘Who will hold us accountable?’
Natalie Abou Shakra | Electronic Intifada 15 July 2009 I will never forget the image of the elderly woman whose son was dying in a hospital in Egypt. She only wanted to be with him. Crying, her hand touching the ...
Read More »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 ...
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