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2022.06.14: No Way to Treat a Child Webinar

Please join the #nowaytotreatachild campaign co-leaders from Defense for Children International – Palestine and American…

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2022.05.15: Madison Nakba Rally

This coming weekend marks 74 years since the Nakba (Catastrophe) of 1948, the ethnic cleansing…

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2022.04.12: Webinar: The Israeli Military Detention System

11 am Central Palestinian Prisoners Day is April 17 and this month’s No Way to…

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This Must End

Dr. Yasser Abu Jamei, American Friends Service Committee, May 13, 2021

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Tell General Mills: Stop manufacturing Pillsbury products on stolen Palestinian land!

Did you know that food giant General Mills is manufacturing Pillsbury products on stolen Palestinian…

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Letter to Biden (and Trump) Campaigns Regarding Israel and Palestinian Rights

This letter, signed by more than 100 progressive, anti-war, and faith-based U.S. organizations, urges presumptive…

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2020.03.29: Cancelled Tribute to Rachel Corrie: Freedom is the Future

This event with Tarek Abuata has been cancelled by coronavirus precautions. You can still listen…

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What you need to know about the bombings in Gaza

Mike Merryman-Lotze, American Friends Service Committee, Nov 13, 2019

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2019.10.27 Update: DREAMING OF FREEDOM

Christ Presbyterian Church, 944 E Gorham St, 2-4 pm

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The Ongoing Dread in Gaza: So Many Names, So Many Lives

Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, July 23, 2019

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500 Palestinian families in Jerusalem are about to have their homes destroyed

Action is needed to protect them and tens of thousands more who risk losing their…

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Ahmed Abu Artema on the Palestinian Great March of Return

Esty Dinur, The Progressive, April 11, 2019

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2019.03.03: Hashtag to Headlines: How the Gaza Great March of Return Challenged the World

Join us for the 2019 tribute to Rachel Corrie with Ahmed Abu Artema, writer, refugee…

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Winning Essay “Dear Blockade”

Gaza Unlocked Blog Team, American Friends Service Committee, December 3, 2018

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Winning Essay “30 Minutes . . . A Thousand Times Over”

Gaza Unlocked Blog Team, American Friends Service Committee, December 3, 2018

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Winning Essay “The Party”

Gaza Unlocked Blog Team, American Friends Service Committee, December 3, 2018 Rahf Hallaq is a…

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2018.11.20: Fundraiser: ‘Clean Water for the Children of Gaza’

First Unitarian Society 900 University Bay Drive Madison 7:00 pm Help provide a Maia Project…

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Call on Congress on to oppose Jerusalem recognition and UNRWA cuts

Last month, President Trump announced his administration’s reckless, one-sided decision to recognize Jerusalem as…

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Israel Publishes BDS Blacklist: 20 Groups Will Be Denied Entry

Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry had for months refused to divulge the list Blacklisted American organizations:…

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