Tag: Global Actions
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Freedom Summer 2007: Confronting Apartheid
FREEDOM SUMMER 2007: Confronting Apartheid In English, Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish, Greek, Swedish, French, German, Italian, and more translations to come… Why Palestine? For over 40 years the people of Palestine have endured a brutal military occupation. Apartheid and military occupation make every day life almost impossible, whether it’s tending crops and livestock, passing through an…
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Evening Tribune: ISM at Alfred Univeresity
“Founder of non-violent Palestinian resistance movement speaks at AU” by Ryan Westerdahl, The Evening Tribune 12 April 2007 ALFRED – For Huwaida Arraf, a young woman who has stared down armed soldiers, a speaking engagement at Alfred University presented a different challenge – persuasion. Arraf, who spoke for more than an hour in AU’s Nevins…
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ZNet: Rachel’s Words Silenced Again
Rachel’s Words Silenced Again by Tom Wallace 12 April 2007 Once again the play “My Name is Rachel Corrie” has been cancelled, this time in South Florida. In New York and Toronto the play was cancelled due to pressure from the Jewish community or those that claim to speak for the Jewish Community. The play…
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Jewish Week: Taking the Resistance Underground– in Washington
Subterranean soapbox Anti-`occupation’ ads coming to Metro stations by Richard Greenberg 10 April 2007 The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is about to go underground– into the Washington subway system, to be exact. Beginning May 13, some 20 downtown Metro stations will be emblazoned with posters advertising a June 10 rally and march in Washington protesting “Israel’s illegal…
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M.E. Times: Palestinian refugee marks Land Day away from her land
Palestinian refugee marks Land Day away from her land by Marwan Naamani, 31 March 2007 BEIRUT — Palestinian Umm Aziz was an 18-year-old newly-wed when she fled to Lebanon from her native village of Sheikh Daoud, in what is now Israel, when the Jewish state was created in 1948. On Friday, Umm Aziz marked what…