Kathy Kelly, a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence (kathy@vcnv.org), writes on her view of Gaza from Arish, a town near the Rafah border between Egypt and Gaza. As I write, we can hear the dull thud of explosions in the distance. Israeli airstrikes continue to blast targets in southern Gaza. Merciless bombing of the [...]
Monday, January 12, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jan. 12, 2008 New Yorkers host vigil TOMORROW outside U.N. Demand ceasefire to Gaza attacks, end to U.S. support for illegal Israel assault with U.S. weapons WHAT: Candlelight vigil demanding ceasefire in Gaza WHEN: 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 13 WHERE: Outside the Permanent Mission of the United States to the United Nations [...]
Thursday, January 8, 2009
CODEPINK, along with Jewish and Muslim women, plan to flood President-Elect Obama’s Washington DC Hotel with White Roses on Friday delivering the message, “Please do not be silent. The children of Gaza need your help.” In the plea to the President Elect to speak out, CODEPINK harkens back to the White Rose Society-the WWII non-violent [...]
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Ariel Vegosen, a Jewish peace activist based in New York City and CODEPINKer, has been visiting Israel and Palestine for the past month and was there when Israel began its attack on Gaza. She wrote this piece on her experience from Tulkarem, Palestine: How do you stop a war? A genocide? A mass killing? First, [...]
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Ariel Vegosen, a Jewish peace activist based in New York City and friend to CODEPINK, has been visiting Israel and Palestine for the past month and was there when Israel began its attack on Gaza. She wrote this piece on her experience from her temporary home in Jenin, Palestine. As Israel invaded Gaza I sat [...]
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
This quote is from a representative of Caritas, the [Catholic] charity contracted by UNHCR to provide all medical services to Iraqi refugees, and it very nearly made my head explode, so I hope it hasn’t lost its impact by being typed. It’s an example of the kind of hidden problems that face refugees here – [...]
Monday, January 12, 2009
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