Sharat G. Lin, The Electronic Intifada, 6 January 2010
The international delegation of the Gaza Freedom March originally planned to arrive in Gaza on 29 December 2009 to join a march against the Israeli blockade together with residents of Gaza two days later. Instead, most of its delegates remained in Cairo, having been blocked from going to the Rafah border by the Egyptian government, and instead marched against the Egyptian blockade on Gaza.
Members of the Gaza Freedom March stage a sit-in outside the French Embassy in Cairo, 30 December 2009. (Mashahed)
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Gaza Freedom March marches in Cairo against blockade
Submitted by ujpadmin on Sun, 01/10/2010 - 9:45pm.Howard Zinn, ¡Presente!
Submitted by pshannon on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 4:02pm.
by Paul Shannon
I've been dreading this day for several years now. We all hoped that somehow Howard Zinn would live forever. We needed Howard Zinn to live forever. He was a true friend, for some of us a dear friend, who gave voice to our deepest feelings as our lives intersected with his, sometimes often, sometime occasionally, as the months, the years and the decades gathered steam and rolled by.
Long before Howard wrote A People's History of the United States he had already accomplished more in the decade of the Vietnam anti-war movement than anyone could hope for in a full life. There have been many great social movements in the Boston area. But there was nothing like the the energy and power and commitment to each other we experienced during the Vietnam movement. Imagine over 100,000 people, not in Washington DC, but on the Boston Common. (I think you can guess who was one of the speakers). Imagine 8,000 people in 1971 and 3,000 more again in 1972 completely surrounding the JFK building and shutting it down in an act of mass civil disobedience. These kinds of things as well as all kinds of other exciting, courageous, painful and sometimes crazy things happened all the time.
Israeli Settlement Expansion in East Jerusalem
Submitted by ujpadmin on Sat, 03/20/2010 - 8:54am.
When: Sunday, March 21, 2010, 2:00 pm
Where: Radio talk show • WTKK 96.9 FM
2010 Mar 21 - 2:00pm
Jeff Klein will appear on Jimmy Myers' radio talk show. Jeff has been to Palestine twice in the past year. He will discuss the current flare-up in US-Israel relations and the Israeli plans to expand settlements in Palestinian East Jerusalem
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