Month: May 2019

Palestinians flee from Gaza’s beaches onto boats during the Palestinian Nakba, 1949. (Photo: UNRWA) Dareen Tatour on May 9, 2019 The anniversary of the Nakba comes every May. But we, the Palestinians of 1948, live in memory of the Nakba in different circumstances than all other Palestinians. Here from within Israel, we can hear the […]

Prayer Vigil for Pastor Betty Rendon Kenosha County Detention Center, 4777 88th Avenue, Kenosha, WI. 6-8 P.M. Pastor Rendón, who is the part-time pastor at Emaus ELCA in Racine, was arrested last week by ICE in Chicago, along with other members of her family.

https://bit.ly/2HnC4nn https://www.afge.org/ In a huge victory for federal government workers, economists, researchers, analysts, and other employees at the Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service (ERS) on May 9 voted overwhelmingly to join AFGE, the largest union representing D.C. government and federal employees nationwide. ERS Employees cheered and high-fived each other after the Federal Labor Relations […]

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/eurovision-protests-grow-solidarity-palestine

May 16, Thursday, at Peace Center, 1001 E Keefe Ave, Milwaukee, 7 PM Al Jazeera’s investigation series on the Israel lobby in the U.S Leaked by the Electronic Intifada, https://electronicintifada.net/. The Qatari Al Jazeera network opted to censor their investigation series after years of production. To get unprecedented access to the Israel lobby’s inner workings, […]

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        More than 1100 people have signed their commitment to make calls and mobilize to defend the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C. and the group of activists who have been protecting the Embassy for one month, as of May 10. Now, the Secret Service, other police and U.S. government agencies, along with […]