Tag: Global Actions

  • The Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project

    Ei: Bringing the discussion home: The Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project Andrew Ford Lyons, 1 May 2007 Possibly noteworthy was that more than 300 people attended the standing-room only public hearing on the project. People waited outside the building to get in to comment and observe. Forty-eight people spoke in support, 24 people expressed opposition. Hundreds…

  • IMEMC: Palestine Information Minister visits Spain, meets Spanish Foreign Minister

    P.A Information minister visits Spain, meets Moratinos by Naseer Faleh, 28 April 2007 Photo: IMEMC Spanish Foreign Minister, Miguel Angel Moratinos, welcomed at the Spanish Foreign Ministry, the Palestinian Minister of Information, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, Who is also the official spokesperson of the Palestinian National Unity Government. The meeting is considered a positive step towards…

  • Art Under Apartheid in Tel Rumeida

    ISM Freedom Summer 2007 invites you to teach creative workshops with Art Under Apartheid in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Hebron. Art Under Apartheid workshops were started as a result of the international boycott of aid to the Hamas government and the resulting strike of Palestinian public sector workers including public school teachers in the…

  • Palestinian refugee children’s art stolen from library

    PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CHILDREN’S ART STOLEN FROM LIBRARY from Birthright Unplugged, 25 April 2007 Organizers Suspect Political Motives Boston Public Library Branch Reports First Time Ever Theft Of Art Exhibit For Immediate Release BOSTON, USA– On April 19, 2007, eighteen photographs were stolen from an exhibit documenting Palestinian children’s journey to Jerusalem, the sea, and their…

  • PACBI: UK Physicians call for Boycott of Israeli Medical Assoc.

    130 UK Physicians Call for a Boycott of the Israeli Medical Association and its expulsion from the World Medical Association from the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel, 21 April 2007 In a letter appearing in the Guardian on April 21, 2007, prominent UK physicians have called for a boycott of the IMA…