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Back in 2011 an 11-year-old Ahed Tamimi and her young cousin, Marah, “scampered” to the front of another peaceful march in their home village of Nabi Saleh, Occupied Palestine, the American writer Ben Ehrenreich relates. The two were joining weekly protests against the Israeli settler/colonists who had stolen much of their land, seized their spring, […]
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The ‘stoic’ Ahed Tamimi and her remarkable family were portrayed in Ben Ehrenreich’s 2016 book
March 22nd, 2018 
Awake Goy Presbyterian and UU breakthrough votes on Palestine
June 26th, 2016 Awake Goy The US Campaign to End the Occupation today posted Anna Baltzer’s report on two church conferences. I cannot remember a more significant day in church activism for Palestinian rights than the past 24 hours. The largest gathering of UUs in the country just voted on whether to endorse the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA)’s recent divestment […]
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No Comments »On the Frontlines of Neoliberalism: Resource Extraction and Popular Resistance in Colombia
June 19th, 2016 Awake Goy “The economic model is not up for negotiation,” said Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, before talks with the FARC rebel group (“The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia”) got underway in 2012. He might have added, “There is no alternative”. Colombia finds itself on the brink of formally ending its sixty year civil war with […]
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