By Diana Block, CounterPunch magazine Reprinted from https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/24/the-great-palestinian-escape-of-2021-reflections-from-the-u-s-abolitionist-landscape/ On September 6, 2021, six Palestinian political prisoners escaped from Gilboa prison, one of the highest security prisons of the Israeli apartheid state. They escaped through a […]
By Rabab Abdulhadi PRESS RELEASE: November 5, 2021 – FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION In an outrageous and insulting decision, President Lynn Mahoney of SFSU [San Francisco State University] has disregarded the legitimate reprimand of a faculty […]
PRESS RELEASE: October 14, 2021 – FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION ACADEMIC SPEECH AND FREEDOM ON PALESTINE – IMPORTANT RULING AGAINST SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY CONCERNING THE POWER OF BIG TECH OVER ACADEMIA In a decision with […]
By Terri Kay Elizabeth, New Jersey – Sunday, July 25 at 6am, about 100 pro-Palestine community activists in the New York metropolitan area picketed Israeli shipping giant ZIM in an attempt to block their cargo […]
BTB Shows the way to move BDS actions beyond individual consumer activism, striking blows with costly community/labor mass direct action initiatives By Terri Kay, a community organizer with Block the Boat Oakland and Block the […]
By Fighting Words Staff There was a demonstration on Tuesday, June 8, 2021 in Romulus, Michigan, located west of Detroit and near the Metropolitan Airport. The location of the protest was at an office of […]
By Fighting Words Staff This is a letter written and signed by Albert Einstein and several other prominent Jews to the NY Times on December 4, 1948 about the massacre at Deir Yassin that same […]
By Arab Resource and Organizing Center Block the Boat – Longest Blockade of Israeli ZIM Ship in History In May 2021, the world witnessed the resilience, strength, and resistance of Palestinians in the face of […]
By Fighting Words Staff Thousands of Palestinians and other Arab Americans led two rallies and marches in Dearborn, Michigan, located across the border with Detroit on Tuesday, May 18, 2021. The actions were both in […]
By Fighting Words Staff Thousands more people took to the streets for the second straight day in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb right across the southwest border with Detroit on Sun. May 16, 2021. The rally […]
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