Quick Update from Gaza: Psychosocial Support for Children
So much emphasis is placed on food and medicine in times of crisis, which is obviously needed and important. But the most important medicine we can give the children of Gaza is to help them understand their pain and move forward so they can have healthy and happy lives. This medicine does not come from taking a pill. It comes from committed professionals, like these amazing women here in Gaza. They are psychologists, social workers, teachers and art therapists, who spend each day healing the wounds of war.
Utne Reader: A Conversation with Barbara Lubin
Barbara Lubin is a lifelong activist who has fought for human rights and civil liberties on a number of diverse fronts. From antiwar work in the Vietnam War era to disability rights and human rights [...]
MECA’s Maia Project Provides Clean Water During Attacks
MECA's Maia Project aims to provide safe, clean water to children by installing water purification and desalination units in schools and kindergartens throughout Gaza. But in the latest attacks on Gaza, these water purification units did even more.
“No Place is Safe”: After Assault’s Worst Day, Gaza Doctor Says Israel Terrorizing Civilians
My phone interview with Democracy Now! from earlier today
Update from Gaza November 17: Day 4 of the Assault
Gaza today- Saturday, 17th of November 2012-8 am
Update from Gaza November 16: Day 3 of the Assault
I can hear the Israeli shelling, it is frequent and so so loud ! It shakes the tower. The local radio says it is the Ministry of Finance Square and Abu Mazen Square. OMG SO CLOSE.
I am on the floor. It is frightening to know that one of the rockets did not explode and landed on a house. So frightening. This should stop now. I have nothing to say except we are many and the oppressors are few and it is just a matter of small actions on the part of everyone to resist and then the oppressors will be defeated, defintely they will. I love you all and appreciate your solidarity.
Madaa Creative Center Provides Children of Silwan With Comfort, Care and Protection
By Elaine Pasquini, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
ABOVE: Children coloring at the Madaa Creative Center in Silwan. (WRMEA Staff photo Phil Pasquini)
Iraq records huge rise in birth defects: New study links increase with military action by Western forces
It played unwilling host to one of the bloodiest battles of the Iraq war. Fallujah's homes and businesses were left shattered; hundreds of Iraqi civilians were killed. Its residents changed the name of their "City of Mosques" to "the polluted city" after the United States launched two massive military campaigns eight years ago.