Transnational Great Return March – Bay Area April 14 in SF
Show your solidarity with the Great Return March by joining a Bay Area demonstration on Saturday, April 14 at 3pm in SF. This is part of an international call and there will be solidarity [...]
VIDEO: Profile of Um Hassan from Al-Masara Village
Fatima Brejia (more commonly known as Um Hassan) is an organic farmer, community activist, founder of a local women's organization, and most recently the head of the Al-Masara Village Council! She is the first Palestinian [...]
Place an Ad or a Tribute in MECA’s 30th Anniversary Program Book!
Middle East Children’s Alliance 30th Anniversary Celebration & Tribute to Barbara Lubin Purchase space for an AD or Tribute Now in the program book for this event Monday, June 4, 2018 Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, [...]
Even Money Won’t Buy You a Good Life In Gaza
If you have a lot of money and you are living in anywhere in this world except Gaza Strip, what would you do?! Let me try to guess. Would you go on a trip around [...]
Noam Chomsky dissects American politics, Israeli-Palestinian conflict during Oakland Tech event
The works of William Shakespeare and Karl Marx, as well as the Bible, rank amongst the 10 most quoted texts in history. On Saturday, 900 people stared at the stage at Oakland Technical High School, [...]
A Salute to Palestinian Women on International Women’s Day
Me and my mother when I was four-years-old Palestinian women have participated in every stage of the Palestinian struggle since the beginning of the last century. We Palestinian women have stood side-by-side with [...]
Berkeley, CA: Col. Ann Wright: Gaza Freedom Flotilla, BDS, Banned From Israel
Saturday, February 24 at 7:30 PM - 9 PM Redwood Gardens, 2951 Derby St, Berkeley Facebook event Join us for an update on deteriorating conditions in Gaza, the BDS campaign, Israel's ban on Codepink, JVP [...]
Volunteer Corner: Lamia Wahba
Lamia at the MECA sales table during a recent event with Dr. Mustafa Barghouti from Palestine Even though I grew up in Egypt, I didn’t know very much about life in Palestine until [...]
Alameda, CA: Home Away from Home: Little Palestine by the Bay Photo Exhibit
Photo by Najib Joe Hakim Exhibit on display now through March 11 Alameda Free Library 1550 Oak Street Alameda, CA Bay Area documentary photographer Najib Joe Hakim’s beautiful and compelling multimedia storytelling [...]
The Nakba, My Brother and Me
At the entrance to my mother’s village Jarash, just west of Jerusalem. It is now an Israeli “nature reserve” and the indigenous Palestinian inhabitants are not permitted to return. Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi writes, [...]