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Commemorating the Nakba: al-‘Awda Camp
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May 9th, 2008 -- The al-‘Awda Camp was inaugurated on Thursday in Ramallah. The camp is a main feature in this week’s Nakba commemoration and will serve as a central site for daily cultural and educational events. [MORE]
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10 structures in Duma threatened with demolition
Latest News, Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
May 6th, 2008 -- On April 13, Occupation forces issued military decisions requiring the demolition of 10 residential and agricultural structures in the village of Duma, located in the southern part of the Nablus district on the edge of the Jordan Valley. [MORE]
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Full Action Program to Commemorate the Nakba - May 2008
Latest News, Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
May 4th, 2008 -- The full program of educational and cultural activities, strikes and protests to commemorate the Nakba is available here. The National Committee for the Commemoration of the Nakba is organizing a full month of action throughout the West Bank. Further actions are planned within the Green Line and in the diaspora. [MORE]
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Further Colonization: A new Zionist settlement in Jerusalem
Latest News, Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
May 1st, 2008 -- The Civic Coalition to Defend Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem has reported that Occupation authorities aim to construct a new settlement in occupied East Jerusalem. [MORE]
Worldwide Activism
Norway discusses divestment from Israel Electric Company
Worldwide Activism, Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
April 30th, 2008 -- Norwegian Peoples’ Aid and the Norwegian Minister of Finance, Kristin Halvorsen, have called on the Council of Ethics in the Government Pension Fund to reopen the divestment case against the Israel Electric Company (IEC). [MORE]
Worldwide Activism
Over 300 US based organizations call for an end to military aid to Apartheid Israel
Worldwide Activism, Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
April 29th, 2008 -- The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation delivered a letter signed by more than 300 US based organizations calling on the House Appropriations Subcommittee to cut off military aid to Israel on account of its repeated violations of the both the Foreign Assistance Act and the Arms Export Control Act. [MORE]
Analysis/Features
Solidarity with Indigenous Political Prisoners incarcerated by Canadian Government
Analysis/Features, Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
April 12th, 2008 -- The Grass-Roots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign wishes to express its solidarity with and call for the immediate and unconditional release of indigenous political prisoners Chief Donny Morris, Deputy Chief Jack McKay, Head Councilor Cecilia Begg, councilors Sam McKay and Darryl Sainnawap and council employee Bruce Sakakeep from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) and spokesperson Bob Lovelace from the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation (AAFN). [MORE]
Analysis/Features
Derail the Free Trade Agreement between the Mercosur and Israel!
Analysis/Features, BNC - Palestinian BDS National Committee
April 10th, 2008 -- We write to express our support for the Brazilian people in their struggle against the Mercosur-Israel FTA agreement and convey our thanks to those who have taken up the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS). We were all shocked to see the Mercosur, which set out to be an economic framework grounded in the respect and the advancement of human rights, to so blatantly disregard these values in its dealings with the Israeli state. This agreement must be derailed. [MORE]
Analysis/Features
UNICEF: Distance Yourself from Tainted Money
Analysis/Features, BNC - Palestinian BDS National Committee
April 10th, 2008 -- "The fact that Mr. Leviev has used his donations (given on three different occasions) to UNICEF to deflect or assuage condemnation of his dismal human rights record should itself motivate UNICEF to distance itself from him and his companies, lest it becomes indirectly complicit in promoting his deceptive image and, therefore, covering up his human rights abuses." [MORE]
Worldwide Activism
Global Solidarity commemorates Palestinian Land Day
Worldwide Activism, Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
April 5th, 2008 -- Land Day was commemorated both across historic Palestine and internationally on the 30th of March. Protests in support of Palestinians where held in the Canary Islands, Brazil and New York, to single out a few locations. [MORE]
Activist Resources
The Wall - the Ongoing Nakba
Activist Resources, Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
April 2nd, 2008 -- This page features the action plan of the Palestinian National Committee to Commemorate the Nakba. It presents the material released as part of our "The Wall - the Ongoing Nakba" initiative. You will find powerponits, factsheets and other activist materials. It further offers links to action calls and further material for international action. [MORE]
Fact Sheets
Threatened Villages - Palestinian population centres between isolation and expulsion
Fact Sheets, Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
April 2nd, 2008 -- 78 Palestinian villages, neighbourhoods, communities and cities are threatened in their very existence by the isolation imposed on them via the construction of the Wall, the settlements and their infrastructure. Throughout the West Bank some 266,442 Palestinians are facing living conditions that soon will force them to abandon their homes and communities and to turn into refugees or internally displaced people. This fact sheet gives the basic information about this wave of forced expulsion at the hands of the Occupation. [MORE]
Worldwide Activism
BDS newsletter #1
Worldwide Activism, Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
April 1st, 2008 -- The StoptheWall BDS newsletter is released monthly to give you updates on calls from Palestine, the global BDS movement and important boycott targets. The first edition features the Palestinian call to boycott "Israel at 60" celebrations, more information on Carmel/Agrexco, the ongoing campaign in India to stop military relations with the apartheid state and Brazil's efforts to stop the ratification of the Mercosur's Free Trade Agreement with Israel. [MORE]
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Land Day: What began in 1976 continues today
Latest News, Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Arabs48.com
March 31st, 2008 -- In 1976, Palestinians protested a massive expropriation of land in the Galilee region. In 2008 the protests continue to mark March 30th, while Occupation forces continue to occupy land and expand the settlements that creep across Palestine. [MORE]
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Palestinian appeal: Boycott “Israel at 60” celebrations
Latest News, Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
March 31st, 2008 -- The BDS National Committee has issued an appeal to international civil society, calling for a boycott of the “Israel at 60” celebrations. Adopted from a PACBI initiative and supported by 104 organizations, this appeal is the core call from Palestine for 2008. [MORE]
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