After 13 months of compiling the Gaza Digest, I have decided that it’s time for me to stop. The annotated list below provides information on alternative news sources and advocacy groups that have been important resources for The Gaza Digest and for Palestine solidarity work. I hope you will find this list useful. RESOURCES ON [...]
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
The Israeli assault on Gaza at the end of December 2008 and into January 2009 was a tipping point for many with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For CODEPINK it no longer felt possible to sit on the sidelines and do nothing while white phosphorous bombs rained down on the people of Gaza — bombs [...]
Friday, September 4, 2009
Ahava Drops Spokesperson Amid Public Relations Fiasco A first victory for CODEPINK’s “Stolen Beauty” campaign NEW YORK CITY — The Israeli cosmetics company, Ahava, which illegally manufactures and appropriates its products in occupied Palestinian territory, has dropped its spokesperson Kristin Davis amid a public relations debacle sparked by the peace group CODEPINK’s Stolen Beauty campaign. [...]
Thursday, August 13, 2009
At CODEPINK, I’m responsible for reading and responding to our “info” email address. I recently received an email that included this: “Code Pink is a bunch of hypocrites. Why are you remaining silent while Obama sends 27,000 more young Americans to a surge in Afghanistan?” There’s been a steady stream of this kind of criticism [...]
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
The Real News just published this compelling 10-min. clip detailing the purpose and history of current efforts to boycott Israeli products, how it relates to the international boycott of South Africa in the late ’80s during its apartheid, and CODEPINK’s new “Stolen Beauty” boycott campaign of the Israeli cosmetics company, Ahava. It’s especially interesting to [...]
Friday, August 7, 2009
On talk show The Young Turks last night, Nancy Kricorian, coordinator of our new “Stolen Beauty” boycott campaign against Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories, describes the crazy story that blew up yesterday around Oxfam International‘s suspension of “Sex & the City” star Kristin Davis as its spokesperson because of her role as spokesperson with Ahava.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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