Showing posts with label Civic Muscle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Civic Muscle. Show all posts
Saturday, January 3, 2026

"... What other ethnic group would be treated with such indifference or ignorance or bias? Especially a devastated population, with the heaviest casualties among babies and children, by U.S.-made weapons. " Ralph Nader

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Ralph Nader @RalphNader   The media’s continued indifference to the massive under death count of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the ge...
Monday, February 5, 2024

Pennsylvania troopers handcuff protesters calling for end to state investments in Israel

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The sign says DIVEST FROM GENOCIDE-INVEST IN PA Dozens of protesters, calling on the state to divest itself of Israel, entered the Pennsylva...
Sunday, October 22, 2023

Palestine IS Personal... a note from Nancy, a very Concerned Palestinian American Citizen

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  The Beauty of Palestine About all that we can do to stop the genocide is to write to our representatives. I urge all Palestinian-Americans...
Monday, October 22, 2018

This man is everywhere your bombs have been for the last 19 years, from Iraq to Syria to Yemen to Libya to Somalia and beyond.. and in Palestine he has been standing like this for 70 years in a concentration camp, under your bombs.

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from Mike Hanini Odetalla "       For all those Americans and British who, while bombing the Middle East for 17 years, refuse re...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

USA TEACH PEACE: "I'm neither Israeli or Palestinian. I am just a military veteran fed up with $10.5 million dollars of taxpayer money each day going to Israel to fund an apartheid regime."

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  "I'm neither Israeli or Palestinian. I am just a military veteran fed up with $10.5 million dollars of taxpayer mon...
Friday, July 22, 2016

My letter to the NYTimes RE Israeli Defense Minister Compares Beloved Palestinian Poet [Mahmoud Darwish] to Hitler & For Palestinians, Raising Arabian Horses Is ‘the Hobby of the Poor’

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Mohammad al-Eisawi, 39, and his son Majd, 5, atop an Arabian horse named Furys near Issawiya. Photo ...
Sunday, May 15, 2016

This is Palestine... "I don't want to carry hate in my heart" Widid Kawar

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This is Palestine from Lucy Lyon on Vimeo . Collector, Widad Kawar explains her motivation towards creating a little piece of Palesti...
Wednesday, December 16, 2015

My letter to the NYTimes RE Let Israel Fight ISIS by Shmuel Rosner

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RE Let Israel Fight ISIS by Shmuel Rosner http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/opinion/let-israel-fight-isis.html?ref=international&...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Three radiant girls with infectious smiles, carrying earthenware jars of water on their heads, Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, 1938

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Three radiant girls with infectious smiles, carrying earthenware jars of water on their heads, Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, 1938. Notice ...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

My letter to the NYTimes RE "Mismanaging the Conflict in Jerusalem" by Nathan Thrall & East Jerusalem, Bubbling Over With Despair by Jodi Rudoren

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RE: "Mismanaging the Conflict in Jerusalem" by Nathan Thrall http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/19/opinion/mismanaging-...

The Academy of American Poets: Congratulations to Academy Chancellor Naomi Shihab Nye on her nomination by the Swedish Arts Council for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize, the world’s largest award for children’s and young adult literature.

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“One of the civic responsibilities of the poet in America today is to continue to encourage a sense of civility among us and a sense o...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Susan Muaddi Darraj's newest book "A Curious Land", short stories about Palestinians and the true meaning of home, wins the prestigious Grace Paley Prize in short fiction

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Susan Muaddi Darraj Thanks to the folks at the Aegis for this mention of the new book!

Congratulations to الدكتورة عايدة النجار Dr. Aida Najjar as she launches her new book today (10/19/2015) Her book is on the depopulated and destroyed Palestinian village of ‪#‎Lifta‬.

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Congratulations to الدكتورة عايدة النجار Dr. Aida Najjar as she launches her new book today (10/19/2015) at Abdul Hameed Shoman Public...
Friday, October 16, 2015

My letter to the NYTimes RE The Cycle of Violence in Israel editorial

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Modern Technology RE  The Cycle of Violence in Israel editorial http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/16/opinion/the-cycle-of-violence-in-isra...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

Boycotting Israel's Anti-Palestine War Games in the West Bank

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"... a settlement boycott—and not just a refusal to buy settlement-produced goods but a prohibition on investing or financially underw...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

My letter to the NYTimes RE A Tiny House in Seattle

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A hemmed-in house has become Seattle’s shrine to defiance. Photo Credit Ian C. Bates for...
Friday, December 5, 2014

My letter to CSM RE Global Newsstand: Rami G. Khouri's "Constant cycle of violence won’t bring peace to Israelis and Palestinians"

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Palestinian dress and golden key  RE Global Newsstand : Rami G. Khouri's "Constant cycle of violence won’t bring peac...