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Posts Tagged ‘Activism’

Falastin quote

By Mary Rizzo • Jun 30th, 2008 • Category: Falastin, Quotes

Any US journalist, columnist, editor, college professor, student-activist, public official or clergy member who dares to speak critically of Israel or accurately report the brutalities of its illegal occupation will be vilified as an anti-Semite.
Dennis Bernstein, activist



Divide and Rule

By Mary Rizzo • Jun 2nd, 2008 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Education, Grassroots Activism, Ideas and Projects, Newswire, Resistance, War

WRITTEN BY IBRAHIM TURNER
Everywhere I look there are people and groups doing something about the warmongers and the arms manufacturers. Each group needs support, but as far as I can tell, there is no communication or co-operation between these various groups.
There was that group in France who went to the judge to get an indictment [...]



Let Gaza Speak!! Free Gaza in Turin on occasion of the Book Fair of Shame

By Mary Rizzo • May 10th, 2008 • Category: Grassroots Activism, Israel, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

National conference of the Italian “Gaza must live” committee to end the embargo
Turin, Saturday May 10th, 10am to 2pm
Dar al-Hikma Italian-Arab Center
Via Fiocchetto 15 (Porta Palazzo zone)
With the intervention of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, in live broadcast from Gaza
- To listen to the voices of those who suffer everyday under the oppression
- To learn [...]



Friends of Lebanon: “As We Watch”

By Mary Rizzo • May 9th, 2008 • Category: Middle East Issues, Newswire, Resistance, War

The world media have been gawking at, salivating over and provoking conflict in Lebanon since. . . well, since the bombs stopped falling in the Summer 2006.  As if the 33-day war merely whet their appetite for the drama of death and destruction, the media have analysed every vibration in Lebanon as the prelude to [...]



Wael Al Saad - Justice Lost in the Age of Power

By Wael Al-Saad • May 8th, 2008 • Category: Education, Features, Ideas and Projects, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

The Dimensions of Occupation, the Occupational Lobby and the Age After
I am not a politician or a journalist or writer but I am thinking day and night, experiencing new dimensions of consciousness and seeking answers. How can we move forward strategically in our struggle for justice and peace?
An Insight
Looking into the current analyses that are [...]



فلسطين ونيويورك تناشدان دبي مقاطعة مجوهرات ليڤايڤ لدعمها للمستوطنات الإسرائيلية

By Haitham Sabbah • Apr 25th, 2008 • Category: Haitham's Choice, Palestine, Zionism

المتحدثين الإعلاميين:
عدالة-نيويورك: عيسى أيوب(الولايات المتحدة) ، يهود ضد الاحتلال-نيويورك: دانييل لانغ-ليڤتسكي (الولايات المتحدة) ، قرية بلعين في الضفة الغربية: عبدالله أبو رحمة ، قرية جيّوس في الضفة الغربية: شريف عمر

نيويورك، 18 نيسان—ناشد ناشطو حقوق الإنسان في نيويورك وممثلون عن القريتين الفلسطينيتين، بلعين وجيّوس، حكومة وشعب الإمارات العربية المتحدة مقاطعة محلات المجوهرات التي يملكها الملياردير [...]



Freedom of Speech - Free speech and its enemies

By Mary Rizzo • Mar 15th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Opinions and Letters

from Counterpunch

The Silencing of Gilad Atzmon
By OREN BEN-DOR
I have recently signed a petition that condemns the constant attempts to silence Gilad Atzmon. The same petition also objects to the constant attempts to discredit and hinder the website that hosts, among others, Gilad’s views–Peacepalestine–one of the more enlightening internet platforms on Palestine.
It would be an understatement [...]



Children of the World, reach out to the children of Gaza!

By Mary Rizzo • Mar 3rd, 2008 • Category: Action Alert, Children's Corner, Education, Grassroots Activism, Ideas and Projects, Palestine

On the Palestinian Mothers web community (which I urge caring people to join) EshaAmeena asked if there was any way that her children and other children could write to kids in Gaza to show friendship. I asked a friend in Gaza if there was a school that could accept these letters, and he gave this [...]



George Habash - Testimony of an Uprooted Palestinian

By Adib Kawar • Feb 1st, 2008 • Category: Biography, Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies

About his uprooting during the 1948 battle of Al-Lid Palestine
Interview edited by: Adib S. Kawar, a chapter of his book “Testimonies of Uprooted Palestinians”
Al-Hakim George Habash was a born leader, the respect of whom was inevitable and willingly accepted by the people around him without demand on his part… generations of young and old Palestinians [...]



Shabtai - Culture cannot save Israel

By Mary Rizzo • Jan 28th, 2008 • Category: Israel

The Israeli poet Aharon Shabtai says no also to the Book Fair of Paris. Here is the letter he sent to negatively respond to the invitation of the director of the book fair, dedicated, as is the Turin edition, to Israel.
Dear Edna,
Thank you for your letter.
I do not believe that a State that maintains an [...]