The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP)

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Jun 29, 2026

2025.08.28: Film “War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death”
Madison Central Library, 201 W. Mifflin, 6 pm
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2025.08.24: Hands in the rice paddy
Friends Meeting House, Friends Room, 1704 Robert’s Ct, Madison, 9:45-11 am
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2025.07.09: Screening & Discussion of Film ‘Gaza: Journalists Under Fire’
Online, 7:00 PM CT
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What Zohran’s Victory Means
Peter Beinart, Jun 25, 2025
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2025.06.08: Rep. Delia Ramirez on the Block the Bombs Act
Online, 3 PM CT
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Why Did Burning Girls Matter in Vietnam but Not in Gaza?
JEHAD ABUSALIM, ZETEO, MAY 27, 2025
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Democrats Push To Censor Palestine Lessons In California
Shaanth Nanguneri, The Intercept, April 28, 2025
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News Graveyards: How Dangers To War Reporters Endanger The World
Nick Turse, Watson Institute For International And Public Affairs, April 1, 2025
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Emergency Lawsuit Filed Challenging Trump’s Attack on Free Speech
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), Mar 16, 2025
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2025.03.16: Israeli Conscientious Objectors Share Their Stories
11:00 am CT
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We Can’t Afford to Ignore This Threat to the People of Gaza
ABDULLAH SHIHIPAR, THE NATION, JANUARY 9, 2025. The very air that Gazans breathe could put…
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What we learned from UW-Madison’s pro-Palestine encampment
How this protest fits into recent history, what to carry moving forward, and what to…
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This activist group chat has been blocking a weapons shipment to Israel for weeks
A South African WhatsApp group working with BDS has sparked a movement to block a…
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The West’s support for Israel’s genocide is destroying the world as we know it
Jonathan Cook, Middle East Eye, 21 October 2024
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School Shootings & the Violence of Empire
We’ve Taught Our Children Well TOM BOSWELL, OCTOBER 20, 2024 On the afternoon of September 5,…
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“No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound That Is Palestine”
“The US and Israel’s unflinching and ongoing televised genocide in Gaza and now Lebanon in defence of…
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U.S. Foreign Policy Has Created a Genocidal Israel
Without massive, unconditional U.S. military subsidies, Israel would have had to practice diplomacy with their…
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2024.06.10: Daniel Ellsberg Week
Madison for a World BEYOND War View this post on Instagram A post shared by…
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Army officer resigns in protest of U.S. support for Israel in Gaza
Maj. Harrison Mann said he feels “incredible shame and guilt” to know his work at…
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Observations about the Campus Protests
PETER BEINART, MAY 06, 2024 Six Observations about the Campus Protests by Peter Beinart Read…
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Veterans For Peace statement about Aaron Bushnell protesting to the death
February 26, 2024 Madmen Arsonists Strike Again: They as Much as Lit Aaron Bushnell’s Match…
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Israel-Palestine Scholar Norman Finkelstein’s Long Crusade
A cantankerous Israel critic takes a rare turn in the limelight. Zak Cheney-Rice, Intelligencer, Dec.…
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Norman Finkelstein’s ‘The Holocaust Industry’ and the Fight To Make All Suffering Count
MAX AJL, IN THESE TIMES, MAY 17, 2016
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Israel is not targeting “terrorists” hiding behind “human shields.”
On the contrary, it’s targeting the “human shields” themselves. NORMAN FINKELSTEIN, DEC 27, 2023 Media…
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2022.08.26: Madison Peace Walk for Palestine
A Madison Peace Walk on July 15. Peng Her gave a marvelous talk about Laos…
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The Ecological War on Gaza
Rob Goyanes, Jewish Currents, September 9, 2019
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Lawmakers Consider Adding Measure Protecting Israel
Senator Richard C. Shelby, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, has objected to unrelated bills clinging…
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Gay Liberation Network declares ‘We Stand With Palestine’ during Chicago’s Gay Pride Parade
Mondoweiss, June 24, 2018
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2017.11.09: Global Day of Action: A World without Walls
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign (Stop the Wall)
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Poetry is not a Crime
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Jennifer Loewenstein: Zionism Is ‘A Particularly Pernicious Form Of Nationalism’
Dr. Milena Rampoldi, MintPress News, June 2, 2016 A boy carries a wreath with posters…
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Israel’s Global War Web and a One-State Solution
Jeff Spitzer-Resnick, The Progressive, May 10, 2016 Jeff Halper, anthropologist and Israeli peace activist, does…
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2011.09.14-15: Madison Film Premier: Cultures of Resistance
As part of the annual World Music Festival sponsored by the Wisconsin Union Directorate and…
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Truth and Consequences Under the Israeli Occupation
A Palestinian journalist’s life and work shed light on the violence in Israel’s “dual” society…
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Reflections on the killing of Shaikh Ahmad Yasin
William R. Polk, March 28, 2004 Before a few days ago, few people in…
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The Demographics of American Jews
Lenni Brenner, CounterPunch, October 24, 2003
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