December 17th, 2011 was a big day for the Occupy Movement: the three month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street; one year since Mohamed Bouazizi’s self-immolation that sparked the Tunisian revolution and in turn the Arab Spring, and the 24th birthday of PFC Bradley Manning, the US army intelligence analyst accused of giving WikiLeaks the information [...]
Democracy NOW! - DN! 4/4 Huwaida Arraf, chairperson of the Free Gaza Movement, and retired U.S. Col. Ann Wright were on the flotilla when it was attacked. They join us to describe the assault and their subsequent detention in Israeli prison. Published with written permission from democracynow.org. http://www.democracynow.org Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
Hi all — I just posted this piece on Huffington Post on International Women’s Day in Gaza. You can read it here!
Jessie Boylan, of Australia, has also posted on her amazing blog, here, with wonderful photos.
I went to see (retired) Col. Ann Wright speak last night here in California on her recent trip to Gaza and the upcoming international aid delegation to Gaza in March — it was the first time I’ve had a chance to meet her, and of course it was so inspiring. The talk was held at [...]
(Originally published on CommonDreams.org) In a tent in front of Shifa hospital, the largest hospital in Gaza, a sign on the photo of a young child bleeding from wounds from the Israeli attack on Gaza read “Gaza Will Not Die.” Shifa hospital received hundreds of bodies of those killed and thousands of those wounded during [...]
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
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