Tag: Global Actions

  • Together

    By Mansour It is a very hot day today… in fact the last two months have been very hot here in Palestine, yet we continue to have a strong desire to resist the Occupation, especially the Annexation Wall. Every day that we have a nonviolent demonstration or action the sweat of Palestinians, internationals, and Israeli…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Verdict on Killing of Tom Hurndall – ISM London

    Regardless of the outcome of today’s verdict on the killing of Tom Hurndall, the International Solidarity Movement, London maintains that justice cannot been served while the culture of impunity in the Israeli army remains intact. Tom was one of hundreds of civilians killed in Rafah alone in the past four years. He was shot whilst…