Reposted from Alice Walker’s Blog The Cushion and the Road: Meditation and Wandering As the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm’s Way
©2010 by Alice Walker
I do not believe in war at all; although I am as capable of anger as anyone. To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful and [...]
After 13 months of compiling the Gaza Digest, I have decided that it’s time for me to stop. The annotated list below provides information on alternative news sources and advocacy groups that have been important resources for The Gaza Digest and for Palestine solidarity work. I hope you will find this list useful.
RESOURCES ON PALESTINE/ISRAEL [...]
On December 15th I participated in my first direct action. I have been organizing against the US’ blunt force approach to foreign policy since 2005, but had never taken part in civil disobedience. Community organizing, fundraising for social change, writing to congress and working for a grassroots foreign policy lobby had sufficed until recently.
With a [...]
Excerpt from speech by Dr. Phillis Starkey, Minister of Parliament, made on 1/27/10 regarding labeling of Israeli settlement products. This section focuses on AHAVA Dead Sea Laboratories.
Full transcript of the day’s debates in Parliament available here.
The text below comes from a marginally edited version posted by the U.K. site Jews for Justice for Palestinians.
Excerpt: I [...]
In mid-December Rula Borelli, prompted by a friend who brought her attention to the fact that AHAVA products were on sale at Costco, sent a letter to the company asking them to remove AHAVA from their shelves, explaining about AHAVA’s illegal practices and the Stolen Beauty boycott campaign against them. Borelli then started a Facebook [...]
From Starhawk, originally posted on Starhawk’s Blog:
We did it! Up until the moment we did, I didn’t quite believe we would, but we did!
Went to bed last night thinking, “Yeah, Starhawk, you’ve done this a hundred times, yawn, nerves of steel, sleep like a baby,” and of course I hardly slept at all, adrenaline [...]
Friday, March 5, 2010
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