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The First Word War – Palestine Think Tank and Tlaxcala declare war against disinformation

By Mary Rizzo • Oct 2nd, 2009 • Category: Action Alert, Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

AN INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR ESSAYS and the first essays by MARY RIZZO, AYMAN EL KAYMAN AND SANTIAGO ALBA RICO (Spanish and French translations below. Translations to English, Spanish and French by Manuel Talens, Machetera and Fausto Giudice)
Reclaiming Significance: Palestine Think Tank and Tlaxcala declare the First Word War
WRITTEN BY MARY RIZZO

There are some words that are used as emotional [...]

Samah Sabawi – God Forsaken

By Guest Post • Apr 11th, 2009 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

A poem to think about on this day when many around the world reflect about the meaning of Divinity and Resurrection from Death. In a world where the life of an innocent child is no longer sacred, nothing in the world is. Poet, playwright and human rights advocate asks us what a life is worth in this world that is God Forsaken, where young men boast of their killing 'finesse' and men and women are killed for a symbol that is bereft of meaning. This poem was found by Adib S Kawar, who translated it into Arabic. It was also translated into Hebrew by human rights advocate and family therapist Avigail Abarbanel. Mary Rizzo translated it into Italian, other languages are on the way at www.tlaxcala.es

Tlaxcala, Anti-Imperialist Translators celebrate our 3rd Anniversary!

By Mary Rizzo • Feb 21st, 2009 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Grassroots Activism, Ideas and Projects, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Resistance

Over three years ago, an idea took shape. That idea was to create a network of activists that would share their material, translating things they considered important from one language, and in exchange, they would be able to circulate things translated by others. We hoped that we could contribute to a more active, involved discourse [...]

Iqbal Tamimi – The Palestinian Kulthum Odeh (1892 -1965) the first woman to hold the professor title in the Arab world

By Iqbal Tamimi • Oct 4th, 2008 • Category: Biography, Culture and Heritage, Education, Features, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies

The Palestinian woman who married a Russian and imprisoned for criticizing Stalin in public

Many times I have been reading articles written by Israelis claiming that when Israel was established, the Jews came to a land (Palestine) where there weren’t many people, or there were just a few uncivilized and nomadic groups more like Bedouins, and [...]