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Mar 4, 2026

2026.03.28: The Next No Kings Day
Brittingham Park to the Capitol, 12:30-4 pm
calendar, free speech, Madison, No Kings, nonviolence, protest, Trump
2026.02.22: Freedom Rides
Building Unity for Nonviolent Action, Feb 22, 2026
calendar, free speech, ICE, immigration, Madison, nonviolence, protest, solidarity
2026.02.20-22: Call to Action Weekend
Building Unity for Nonviolent Action, Feb 20-22, 2026
calendar, free speech, ICE, immigration, Madison, nonviolence, protest, solidarity
Call to Action Weekend!
February 20-22, 2026
free speech, ICE, immigration, Madison, nonviolence, protest, solidarity
2026.01.24: Building Unity for Nonviolent Action: Launching a Campaign
James Reeb Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 2146 E. Johnson St, Madison, 6-9 pm
calendar, environment, human rights, Madison, nonviolence, peace
2026.01.21: Beyond Political Illusions: What This Moment Demands of Us
Online, 9 AM CT
calendar, equality, genocide, human rights, justice, law, nonviolence, one-state, two-state, violence
2025.12.22: Webinar with Palestinian Human Rights Defender Issa Amro
Online, 11 AM CT
calendar, detainees, Friends of Hebron, Hebron, human rights, Issa Amro, nonviolence, occupation, online, resistance, settlers, West Bank
2025.06.29: “The Moral Issue of Our Time: Palestine”
Online, 2:30-4:00  PM CT
calendar, Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA), Israel, nonviolence, one-state, Palestine
2025.06.12-19: Global March to Gaza
Egypt to Gaza
blockade, calendar, Egypt, Gaza War, March to Gaza, nonviolence, peace, solidarity
2024.10.19: Peacemaker of the Year Award to UW-Madison Professor Samer Alatout
Wisconsin Network for Peace & Justice Fall AssemblyMadison Friends Meetinghouse, 1704 Roberts Ct, Madison10 am…
calendar, colleges & universities, Gaza War, Israel, nonviolence, protest, United States, UW-Madison
Gaza Summer School!
This summer, we’re turning up the heat to demand an end to the genocide in…
art, environment, Freedom Flotilla, Gaza War, human rights, Israel, Israel Lobby, nonviolence, Palestine, United States
2024.01.25: Madison Antiwar Film Series Presents Two Films about Israel and Palestine
The Occupation of the American Mind and My Neighborhood Central Library, 201 W. Mifflin Street, Room…
calendar, Israel, Israel Lobby, Madison, nonviolence, Palestine, settlers, violence
In the Shadow of the Holocaust
How the politics of memory in Europe obscures what we see in Israel and…
Albert Einstein, antisemitism, apartheid, BDS, blockade, boycott, colonialism, Deir Yassin, fascist, free speech, Gaza War, ghetto, Hannah Arendt, Holocaust, Irgun, Israel, Menachem Begin, Nakba, Nazi, nonviolence, Palestine, refugees, Shoah, Zionism
Free Sami Huraini
Started January 10, 2021 Petition to United Nations Secretary General António Guterres and UN High…
Hebron, Israel, Masafer Yatta, nonviolence, violence, West Bank
Winning Lawsuit Against Major Israeli Newspaper
We just won a defamation case against a major Israeli newspaper! We made Israel Hayom…
Adelson, Hebron, Israel, Israel Hayom, Israel Lobby, Issa Amro, Netanyahu, nonviolence, settlers, violence
2022.08.26: Madison Peace Walk: Lisa Masri on Palestine
A Madison Peace Walk on July 15. Peng Her gave a marvelous talk about Laos…
calendar, Madison, nonviolence, West Bank
No evidence from Israel that Palestinian NGOs are ‘terrorist organizations’
“In the absence of such evidence, we will continue our cooperation and strong support for…
free speech, Israel, nonviolence
BREAKING: 200+ Palestinians, Israelis, and American Jews protest to #SaveMasaferYatta
Growing up, I was told over and over: “You need to take responsibility for Israel.…
ethnic cleansing, Hebron, home demolition, Israel, nonviolence, violence, West Bank
If Not Now on Masafer Yatta
On Sunday, we saw Jewish supremacists march through the streets of Jerusalem, shouting racist chants…
ethnic cleansing, Hebron, nonviolence, settlers, West Bank
A Palestinian shepherd peacefully resisted the Israeli occupation. And now he’s dead.
Ali Velshi, MSNBC, Jan. 22, 2022
human rights, nonviolence, violence, West Bank
2021.12.06: Webinar: “Teaching Hard Truths”
Black and Palestinian Perspectives on the Power of Education and Action via Zoom Who: Dr.…
apartheid, calendar, education, nonviolence, solidarity, video
Watch My Neighbourhood, the story of Sheikh Jarrah
A remarkable, nonviolent struggle against settlement expansion in East Jerusalem Watch the full movie online…
ethnic cleansing, film, Jerusalem, nonviolence, settlers
Israeli Prison Denies Release For Daughter’s Funeral
Addameer, July 13, 2021 On 12 July 2021, following several communications submitted to the Israeli…
detainees, human rights, nonviolence
Free Sami Huraini
Palestine Partners started this petition to United Nations Secretary General António Guterres and UN High…
detainees, human rights, nonviolence, West Bank
Trump Plan Protests in the Jordan Valley
Operation Dove, January 29, 2020 Tubas, Jordan Valley — Today in response to the “Deal…
human rights, nonviolence, travel, West Bank
Sister Cities
Invest in Justice by Building Genuine Connections Image via Sacramento to Bethlehem Cities for Palestine…
education, human rights, nonviolence, solidarity
Activists Reclaimed a Water Source for Palestinians, Showing Co-Resistance Works
Oren Kroll-Zeldin, Truthout, January 10, 2020
ethnic cleansing, nonviolence, water, West Bank
To Prison, Again, for Protesting Against Israel’s Colonial Rule
Israeli activist Jonathan Pollack pens a powerful Op-Ed in Haaretz on his arrest, putting into…
apartheid, detainees, free speech, human rights, nonviolence, solidarity
He Threatened Us, Now He Goes to Jail
Dr. James J. Zogby, August 17, 2019 Back in May, a jury found Patrick Syring,…
free speech, human rights, nonviolence
Why Americans Should Support BDS
apartheid, BDS, boycott, divest, ethnic cleansing, free speech, human rights, Israel Lobby, nonviolence, sanction
Israeli house demolitions are the true crime — not BDS
Mohamed Mohamed, Mondoweiss, July 26, 2019
apartheid, BDS, boycott, ethnic cleansing, home demolition, nonviolence
Palestinian peace activist denied entry to U.S. for speaking tour
Edo Konrad, +972, March 4, 2019
nonviolence, travel
A Teenage War Resister in Israel
An Antiwar Story from the Embattled Middle East He is a rarity in his own…
apartheid, Gaza, human rights, nonviolence
2019.03.26-04.14: Naila and the Uprising
On Wisconsin Public Television’s Women, War & Peace Tuesday, March 26 8:00 pm on WPT…
calendar, Gaza, human rights, nonviolence, video
South Hebron Hills Update
Expulsion by a thousand cuts Dear Friends, The last weeks have been busy and challenging…
apartheid, ethnic cleansing, home demolition, images, Masafer Yatta, nonviolence, olive oil, settlers, travel, West Bank
‘No to Apartheid’
Yumna Patel, Mondoweiss, January 23, 2019
apartheid, Jerusalem, nonviolence, West Bank
My grandfather Nelson Mandela fought apartheid
I see the parallels with Israel It took an international effort to end institutionalised racism…
apartheid, human rights, nonviolence, settlers, travel
Why I March in Gaza
Palestinian demonstrators on a sand plateau during clashes with Israeli forces last Friday east of…
blockade, ethnic cleansing, Gaza, nonviolence, refugees
A History of Boycotts: Israel, South Africa and California
Pacifica Radio Letters and Politics, 02.14.18
apartheid, BDS, boycott, free speech, nonviolence, podcast
Kansas Doesn’t Even Try to Defend Its Israel Anti-Boycott Law
Brian Hauss, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, November 30, 2017
BDS, boycott, free speech, Israel Lobby, nonviolence
Federal Court Strikes Down Kansas Anti-BDS Law
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept, January 31 2018 A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that a…
BDS, boycott, free speech, nonviolence
Backlash in New Orleans: vote to rescind BDS resolution set for Thursday
Dear Friend, Last Thursday, the New Orleans City Council unanimously passed a historic human rights…
apartheid, BDS, boycott, human rights, Israel Lobby, nonviolence, take action
Iyad Burnat’s Palestinian Center for Non-Violent Action
Dear Friends, Many of you know Palestinian activist Iyad Burnat, co-founder and President of…
nonviolence, take action, violence, West Bank
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:…
BDS, boycott, free speech, nonviolence, take action
Take Action: Palestinian leader’s son abducted by Israel
This is how Israel marked Human Rights Day. Please call the following (ask for the…
detainees, human rights, Mark Pocan, nonviolence, settlers, take action, violence, West Bank
2017.12.12: Beyond One State, Two State
Creative Solutions to the Israel-Palestine Conflict Dr. Johan Galtung Professor and Founder of Transcend International…
calendar, human rights, Israel, nonviolence, one-state, Palestine, two-state
2017.11.09: Kathy Kelly at Edgewood College
Anderson Auditorium Predolin Center Edgewood College 7:00 PM “Trillions for the Military: Will That Make…
calendar, human rights, Kathy Kelly, Madison, nonviolence
The Sumud Freedom Tour
This is our moment of unity, of coalition building Holy Land Trust Mission Holy Land…
delegation, education, human rights, nonviolence, take action, West Bank
2017.04.21-24 Update: Juan Cole Programs
April 21, 2017 WORT 89.9 FM A Public Affair: Juan Cole On The Middle East…
calendar, Juan Cole, nonviolence, religion, UW-Madison
2017.03.13: The impact of UN recognition on Palestinian public opinion
206 Ingraham Hall UW-Madison [Map] 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. UW Middle East Studies Program presents…
calendar, nonviolence, Palestine, United Nations (UN)
2016.10.23 Update: Israeli and Palestinian Parents Grieve, Work Together for Justice
A Parents Circle Family Forum Presentation Sunday, October 23 Two families – one Jewish Israeli,…
calendar, Israel, nonviolence, Palestine
GoFundMe Request by Rafah Filmmaker Fida Qishta
Fida Qishta, who visited us in Madison in 2014 and 2015 to show her powerful…
blockade, film, MRSCP, nonviolence, project, Rafah, violence
Breaking Ground at Cinema Hebron
Rabbi Brant Rosen, Shalom Rav, July 17, 2016 This past Friday, I had the honor…
images, nonviolence, settlers, travel, video, West Bank
2016.07.20: Women’s Boat to Gaza
Women’s Boat to Gaza, July 20, 2016 Gaza has been under Israeli blockade for the…
blockade, calendar, Freedom Flotilla, Gaza, nonviolence
Ben Ehrenreich Writes a Love Letter to Palestine
“Next we meet Hani Amer, whose farm lay on the route of the infamous wall.…
detainees, ethnic cleansing, nonviolence, settlers, violence, West Bank
Eleven signs that BDS continues to grow despite Israel’s war of repression
Palestinian BDS National Committee, July 7, 2016
apartheid, BDS, boycott, Israel Lobby, nonviolence, Right to Boycott
UW-Madison Graduate Teaching Assistants Call for Divestment from Israel
BDS, boycott, colleges & universities, divest, human rights, nonviolence, United States, UW-Madison
AIPAC Anti-BDS Legislation
AIPAC and their right-wing allies are coming for our right to boycott — and they’re…
BDS, boycott, free speech, Israel Lobby, Mark Pocan, nonviolence, take action
Landmark G4S Boycott Victory
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 10 March 2016
Ali Abunimah, BDS, boycott, detainees, human rights, nonviolence, settlers, travel
2015.10.15: Non-Violent Responses to the Israeli Occupation
calendar, Israel, nonviolence, occupation, Palestine
Wisconsin Walk for Peace and Justice: Nine Arrested at Volk Field
Joy First, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, August 26, 2015 Voices for Creative Nonviolence engaged with…
drones, Kathy Walsh, nonviolence, peace, video, Volk Field
2014.11.07-08: Voices for Peace and Justice in Palestine
Searching for Peace The Capital City Hues October 30, 2014 From Barbara Olson and The…
BDS, boycott, calendar, Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA), Gaza, MRSCP, nonviolence, project, travel, violence, West Bank
France’s main Jewish group fined for defaming Palestine charity
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 11 Apr 2014
Ali Abunimah, BDS, boycott, Israel Lobby, nonviolence
Quakers Call For Israel Boycott & Divestment
Breakthrough! Quakers Spanning 3 States Call For Boycott & Divestment Anna Baltzer, US Campaign to…
BDS, boycott, human rights, nonviolence, religion
2012.12.16: Palestinian non-violent resistance leader speaks in Madison
Veena Brekke, December 19, 2012 On Sunday afternoon, December 16, citizens of the Madison area…
calendar, human rights, Madison, nonviolence, settlers, travel, violence, water, West Bank
2012.11.05: Daoud Nassar speaks in Madison
Daoud Nassar: “The most effective way to reach peace is meeting people face-to-face. It’s possible…
calendar, Daoud Nassar, Madison, nonviolence, settlers, West Bank
2012.10.25: Miko Peled Talk in Madison
Miko Peled, activist and author of The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine…
calendar, Madison, Miko Peled, nonviolence
Israeli Intransigence Lets BDS Into the Mainstream
Alex Kane, December 21, 2010 The world is fed up with Israel, with its continued…
apartheid, BDS, blockade, boycott, colonialism, Gaza, human rights, Jerusalem, nonviolence, settlers, West Bank
2010.10.13: Film Life in Occupied Palestine
Life in Occupied Palestine provides an excellent introduction — in a down-to-earth, non-alienating way —…
calendar, film, Israel, nonviolence, occupation, Palestine, violence
Activists embrace nonviolence in world’s hot spots
Phil Haslanger, Cap Times, Apr 1, 2010
blockade, Cap Times, Gaza, Israel, nonviolence, Rafah
2010.02.23: Bridging the Divide: Kobi and Aziz
Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 7 pm, Room B1B Lowell Center, UW Madison [Map] Aziz Abu-Sarah…
calendar, Israel, nonviolence, Palestine, religion
2008.04.25: Sami Rasouli, Iraqi-American peacemaker, in Madison
calendar, Madison, nonviolence
2008.02.23: Celebration of Trees
calendar, Israel, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), justice, Madison, nonviolence, Palestine, peace
2007.04.12-05.03: “A Bitter Harvest” Speaker and Film Series
Palestine, Israel and Lebanon 40 Years after 1967 “Hizbullah, Israel and Lebanon: The Summer War,…
calendar, Fawwaz Trabulsi, Jonathan Cook, Laila el-Haddad, Madison, MRSCP, nonviolence, project, Sara Roy, UW-Madison, violence
2006.04.25-27: Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi in Madison
Please mark your calendars for April 25-27, when Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, human rights activist, former…
calendar, democracy, human rights, Israel, Mustafa Barghouti, nonviolence, Palestine
The Shabak: “We are above the Law”
Life under occupation Yael Barda, Occupation Magazine, July 7 2005 Yesterday I had a fascinating…
free speech, human rights, Israel, justice, law, military, nonviolence, occupation, Palestine, Shin Bet, Wall
Know When To Say “No”: A Call For Divestment From The Israeli Occupation
Shamai Leibowitz, The Electronic Intifada, 24 March 2005
BDS, boycott, divest, human rights, nonviolence, settlers, violence
2004.08.18: Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb
ICB sculpture The Segregation Wall, 09-Nov-03 Memorial United Church of Christ 5705 W. Lacy…
Bethlehem, calendar, colleges & universities, Dar al-Kalima University, education, Israel, Mitri Raheb, nonviolence, Palestine, Wall, West Bank
2004.04.19: Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam: Jews and Palestinians Can Live Together
Grainger Hall Morgridge Auditorium UW-Madison 7:00 pm Situated midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Neve…
Arabs, calendar, Israel, Jews, nonviolence, Palestine, UW-Madison
2003.09.19-21: Toward a Peaceful World
NONVIOLENCE EVENT WEEKEND How to Spread Nonviolence, Globally and Locally September 19-21, 2003 Hosted by…
calendar, Cap Times, colleges & universities, Edgewood College, education, Jennifer Loewenstein, Madison, nonviolence, peace