International News
Palestine on my mind
By David Sole I was born just eight days before “Al Nakba” – the Palestinian Catastrophe of May 15, 1948. I was born in New York City, a child of Hungarian Jewish immigrants who had […]
Palestine
International News
Palestinian Human Rights Leaders Blocked from Traveling to U.S. for Major Conference
Al-Awda Press Release Palestinian human rights leader Ubai Aboudi, featured speaker at AL-AWDA NY “Rising to Return” conference, blocked from traveling to US along with colleague Sahar Francis Registration and information: alawdaconference.org Twitter: @alawda Instagram: […]
International News
Palestinian BDS National Committee Statement on Ukraine
From the editors: The following statement is from the Palestianian BDS National Committee on the war in Ukraine. BDS leads a campaign to boycott, divest from and sanction apartheid israel because of genocide and settler-colonialism […]
International News
Imperialism Coordinates Effort to Prevent People’s Revolution in Sudan
By Abayomi Azikiwe Two United States envoys from the State Department visited the Republic of Sudan on January 19 in their continuing campaign to neutralize the mass democratic movement which is demanding the exit of […]
Domestic News
The Great Palestinian Escape of 2021
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 […]
Domestic News
SFSU President Overrules Her Own Faculty Panel
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 […]
Domestic News
SFSU Faculty Hearing Committee Upholds Grievance by Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi
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 […]
International News
NYC/NJ activists picket Port of New York to block Israeli-operated cargo ship
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 […]
Domestic News
International Block the Boat Campaign
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 […]
Domestic News
Detroit Says “Block the Boat”
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 […]