Tag: Global Actions
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Lawyers Challenge EU and UK over Inaction on Palestine
Lawyers acting for campaigns group War on Want will today send letters to President José Manuel Barroso of the European Commission and UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw challenging them to provide evidence of any action they have taken to curtail human rights abuses against Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation. One year after the International…
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UN Conference of Civil Society calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions!
Worldwide Activism, The Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign In their recent session in Paris, July 13, 2005 the UN International Conference of Civil Society for Peace in the Middle East unanimously adopted the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions. Through the call participating groups recommitted themselves to ending the Occupation of Palestine and to…
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These are some of the things I wish everyone knew
A speech by Kate Raphael at San Francisco Pride. These are some of the things I wish everyone knew: I wish everyone knew what an olive tree looks like when its branches are lopped off, heavy full ones they call ‘hamel’, which means pregnant. I wish everyone knew how Caterpillar bulldozers uproot the trees to…