Gaza Under Attack: Stay safe friends, but where and how?
Jul 28, 2014
What is more heartbreaking than displaced, hungry, thirsty, injured, terrified, unsafe kids? This is all the children in Gaza on their special feast day. There is heavy shelling everywhere against Gaza...
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Gaza Under Attack: July 22
Jul 22, 2014
Tuesday, July 22, Gaza City Today is not that much different from yesterday. Except you read new names of the dead and the wounded and you see more patients with...
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Voices from Gaza: MECA Calls for Immediate End to Israeli Attacks Which Kill Palestinian Children Daily Eyewitness Accounts Available
Jul 14, 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (510) 548-0542/ meca@mecaforpeace.org Voices from Gaza: MECA Calls for Immediate End to Israeli Attacks Which Kill Palestinian Children Daily Eyewitness Accounts Available FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...
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Syria Needs a Ceasefire: The true cost of war for children
Nov 06, 2013
By Barbara Lubin I was a young mother, draft counselor and anti-war activist when the US was dropping napalm and Agent Orange on the people of Vietnam, Laos and...
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I hate borders
Nov 06, 2013
I hate borders. My family, like most Palestinian refugees, is torn apart and divided by Israeli borders and restrictions. The simple act of sitting around one table became an impossibility...
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25 Years of MECA, 65 Years of Nakba
May 15, 2013
By Ziad Abbas and Nadia Barhoum By Ziad Abbas and Nadia Barhoum It is with great pride and great sadness that we write this article. Pride because we are celebrating the...
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Plant-a-Tree for Palestine: Strengthening the roots of resistance
Feb 02, 2013
For 112 years, the Jewish National Fund has played a central role in the on-going displacement and dispossession of Palestinians from their land and homes. The JNF was instrumental in...
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Culture as a Weapon: A Conversation with Emory Douglas & Ziad Abbas
Jan 09, 2013
SOUL Sunday School presents Culture as a Weapon: A Conversation with Emory Douglas & Ziad Abbas 2-4pm Sunday, January 20, 2013 1904 Franklin Street (@19th Street) Suite 904 Oakland SOUL...
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