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Confronting Intimidation, Working for Justice in Palestine

Undoubtedly the centers of power that fuel this culture of intimidation lie to a great extent in the United States...

(LONDON) - If we had a wish list for 2012 as Palestinians and friends of Palestine, one of the top items ought to be our hope that we can translate the dramatic shift in recent years in world public opinion into political action against Israeli policies on the ground.

We know why this has not yet materialized...

UNRWA`s Emergency Appeal

West Bank demolitions quadrupled in 2011- Israeli settler violence rose 205%

(GAZA STRIP) - The West Bank and Gaza are in the midst of a humanitarian crisis.

Restrictions on movement, home destruction and widespread violence against Palestinians, have created an ongoing emergency.

The Global March to Jerusalem, the 36th Land Day and IMAGINE Revolution

For imagination to even approach reality we must know, honor and learn from history.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - The Global March to Jerusalem/GMJ commences on 30 March and coincides with the 36th anniversary of LAND DAY.

As “reality leaves much to the imagination” [John Lennon] I imagine the third intifada could finally erupt if those two events were joined into from every city, town and village throughout Israel by contingents of nonviolent residents.

Dear Yoko: GIMME SOME TRUTH Vanunu Update

"All I want is the truth. Just gimme some truth. I've had enough of reading things by neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians. All I want is the truth. Just gimme some truth."-John Lennon, 1971.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - When I received my postcard invitation to this years Yoko Ono presentation of John Lennon’s drawings, sketches and words to benefit a charity titled "GIMME SOME TRUTH"

I immediately recalled the first Ono-Lennon Art Show I attended on 7 March 2004.

Remembering Vietnam

After 1,000 years of domination by China, Vietnam’s conflicts with the French and the U.S. were mere bumps in the road.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - January 30th marks the forty-fourth anniversary of the beginning of the Tet Offensive, a defining event in the Vietnam War.

I was a U.S. Army Transportation officer stationed in Vietnam during the 1968 Tet Offensive.

The Split: Differences over Israel tear apart a Jewish marriage

From the Book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War...

(OLDENBURG, Germany) - Stan and Hannah Cooper are friends of mine from college days. Both are Jewish, but they have diametrically opposed views about Israel, and their differences have become so bitter that they've decided to divorce.

As the three of us talked about this, it became clear that their dispute is a microcosm of the conflict that is tearing the Jewish community apart and also destroying lives in an increasingly large part of the world.

EGYPT: Pacifist blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad still in prison, although he received an official pardon

War Resisters' International demands immediate release of Maikel Nabil Sanad from Tura Mazraa prison.

(LONDON) - Imprisoned pacifist blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad who was sentenced to two years' imprisonment by a military court for "insulting the People’s Assembly, the Shura Council or any State Authority, or the Army or the Courts", and article 102, "spreading false information", has received an official pardon by the Egyptian authorities.

Almost 2000 other prisoners convicted by military courts in the last year were pardoned on the first anniversary of Egypt's Revolution.

Capitalism 1, United States 0

Steve Jobs to Barack Obama: "Those jobs aren't coming back."

(Calgary, Alberta) - Here is an uncomfortable truth: America is great at capitalism when there is no competition or weak competitors.

The fundamental problem with Americans today, is that its middle class has been trained to consume products and eat tons of junk food, while growing up through the decades after the Second World War, when global competition did not exist to any significant degree.

APN Concerned about Attacks on CAP

CAP and its staff have a long record of pro-Israel, pro-peace work.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - In the context of recent attacks in the media accusing the Center for American Progress and its staff of anti-Semitism, APN’s President and CEO Debra DeLee today issued the following statement:

We are deeply concerned about the ongoing attacks against staff of the Center for America Progress (CAP). We believe that these attacks do not reflect genuine concerns about anti-Semitism...

County Trials this Week for Civil Resistance at Trident Submarine Base

They are charged with being “pedestrians in the roadway”, a traffic infraction.

(SEATTLE) - Eleven nuclear resisters will appear in a Kitsap County courtroom this week in two separate trials for their acts of civil resistance to the Trident nuclear weapons system.

The Trident submarine base at Bangor, just 20 miles from Seattle, contains the largest concentration of operational nuclear weapons. Each of the 8 Trident submarines at Bangor carries 24 Trident II (D-5) missiles...