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2023.11.17: Gaza CeaseFire Lights at Maple Grove & Mckee

Madison demonstrators call for ceasefire in Gaza Channel 3000, November 15, 2023 A group of…

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2023.11.09: Shut It Down For Palestine!

Students for Justice in Palestine- UW Madison https://www.instagram.com/sjpuwmadison/p/CzT–apreHT/?hl=en Party for Socialism and Liberation – Madison…

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Madison organizer and dozens of artists raised $54k for Palestine

SCOTT GORDON ● TONE ● OCTOBER 31, 2023 Fawzy Taylor drew on a vast network…

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2023.10.27: Emergency Gaza Protest at the Capitol

Capitol at State Street Israel has announced plans to level Shifa hospital, where thousands of…

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Statements from WNPJ groups on Palestine/Israel/Hamas

Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice, October 22, 2023 Palestinians inspect the damage following an…

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2023.10.23: Gaza Protest Vigil near Trader Joe’s

Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, Palestine Partners and Madison Jewish Voice for Peace invite you to…

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2023.10.15: Spectrum News: Madison’s Olive Harvest filled with somber celebrations

RHONDA FOXX, SPECTRUM NEWS 1, OCT. 16, 2023

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2023.10.15: Madison Celebrates Palestine and the Olive Harvest

Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, October 16, 2023 We will be covering the situation in…

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Dixon Hopes Israeli Settler’s Trial Draws Attention to Attacks on Palestinians

Jerry Windley-Daoust, The Catholic Worker Movement, September 2, 2023 “These settlers act with impunity because…

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Why we are anti-Zionist Jews

JUDITH LAITMAN AND TSELA BARR — GUEST COLUMN, JUNE 14, 2023 This year on April…

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Hebron Emergency Caves Project

We are getting closer to our goal of providing emergency housing to one family in…

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Support Palestinians in Masafer Yatta

“We are staying here, herding our sheep and cultivating our land. Nothing will uproot us…

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2023.03.12-16: March Events

Sunday, March 12: WORT interview with Masafer Yatta Activist Thursday, March 16: Cindy and Craig…

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160 Organizations Demand Congress Stop Funding Israel’s Massacres

160 organizations representing Palestinian communities, Palestinian solidarity organizations, and the racial justice movement have signed…

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Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice Spotlight

Dena Eakles, WNPJ Board Member, 1/30/23 This past week, nine Palestinians were murdered in the…

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2022.10.29: “You Can Be the Last Leaf” by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat directs the Palestine Writing Workshop on the West Bank. She’ll read poems…

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Update: Back-To-School Backpacks For Rafah Kids

135 backpacks to Rafah by MECA on our behalf More MECA photos from Gaza …

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