Tag Archives: Palestine
Not So Much ICE, Boycott Pillsbury, Climate Crisis and Militarism, WAMM Newsletter
Boycott Pillsbury! WAMM Newsletter Volume 39 Number 5 Fall II 2021 Minnesota-based General Mills owns Pillsbury, which operates a factory illegally within an Israeli settlement on militarily-occupied Palestinian land. According to the U.N. High Commission on Human Rights, this places General Mills in violation of international law: UN Security Council Resolution 2334. A “boycott” is […]
Peacestock Plaza: Northfielders for Justice in Palestine
Founded in 2007,, this citizen activist group in Minnesota educates and acts around the Palestine/Israel occupation issues,
Protest at General Mills: “No to U.S. Dough for the Occupation of Palestine!”
“Israel, the Occupying Power, has systemically and unlawfully appropriated Palestinian public and privately owned land, exploiting Palestinian natural resources, while forcing the transfer of and creating coercive environments [sic] to forcibly displace the protected Palestinian population.*
Polly Mann: U.S. Paying for War and the Israeli Military
“And what about this? The United States gives Israel $3.8 billion every year. More of it used to go to economic development, but now the majority of it goes for the Israeli military.”
End Minnesota Complicity in the Suffering of the Palestinian People, by Lucia Wilkes Smith
General Mills/Pillsbury complicit in occupation of Palestine.
Chris Hedges: American Bloodlands
“It is the absence of empathy, perhaps the best definition of evil. ”
Ilhan, Antone and the Price of Inclusion, by Ricardo Levins Morales
“Inclusionists demand equal participation at all levels of the empire and its institutions while transformationists call for fundamental change.”
Chris Hedges – Trump’s Israel/Palestine ‘Peace Plan’
“The plan essentially formalizes the Israeli apartheid state it is the natural denouement of the Zionists project.]
The Systems That Silence, The Intercept, by Ali Gharib
The U.S. borderlands have become laboratories for new systems of enforcement and control.
Noam Chomsky: Trump Is History Repeated as Farce
for the world, it’s dead serious, from the destruction of the environment and the growing threats of terminal nuclear war to a long list of other crimes and horrors.
Divestment: Climate Change, Weapons, BDS Movement, and the Teachers
Articles about divestment from fossil fuel companies and from weapons manufacturers.
Nakba: A Remembrance, A Call to Action
Post-apartheid documents show that Israel offered to help apartheid South Africa develop nuclear weapons.
Israel just ‘lost Cronkite’ — the struggle for Palestinian rights at ‘The New York Times’, by Robert Herbst
“Not so long ago, it was fairly rare to hear this perspective. That is no longer the case.”
Break the Silence on Palestine, by Michelle Alexander
I cannot say for certain that King would applaud Birmingham for its zealous defense of Angela Davis’s solidarity with Palestinian people. But I do.
Solidarity Among People: A Response to the New Jewish National State Law
This new law wipes out democracy and equality and establishes that Israel
belongs only to Jews!
Aida Touma Suleiman speaks on Israel/Palestine at the Veterans for Peace Annual Convention
What’s really going on in Israel. A new law denying Palestinian rights.
Polly Mann: Who is Biased?
The Gaza Ministry of Health reported 12,844 Gazan casualties, victims of live fire or tear-gas inhalation.
Aida Touma-Sliman: Israel’s New Apartheid Law
Is Israeli a democracy? An in-depth look at the current situation in Israel and Palestine by a Palestinian journalist, leader, and member of the Israeli Knesset.
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