Tabling volunteers needed!
Are you looking for an easy way to get involved with ISM? Do you enjoy explaining the need for solidarity with Palestine and the need for U.S. volunteers to go there? ISM needs more volunteers participate in what we call “tabling”, which is staffing our literature table at community events throughout the Bay Area. We […]
Nov. 17 and Dec. 1: ISM Newsletter Parties to Support Palestinian Grassroots Resistance
NOTICE: November 17 party CANCELLED due to air quality. December 1 party moving forward! Saturday, Dec. 1 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Grassroots House 2022 Blake St. Berkeley, CA (near downtown Berkeley BART station.) Come out to help support Palestinian grassroots organizing and resistance! We’ll be packaging the ISM Norcal newsletter’s latest edition, hot off […]
Nov. 12, Rossmoor: Author Richard Hardigan on the occupation of Palestine
Monday, November 12 4:00 pm Fireside Room at Gateway Complex 1001 Golden Rain Road Walnut Creek (Rossmoor), CA Rossmoor Voices for Justice in Palestine is proud to present author and activist Richard Hardigan speaking about his new book: “The Other Side of the Wall – An Eyewitness Account of the Occupation in Palestine.” “Richard Hardigan…has […]
Learn More about ISM Northern California
Who We Are: The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the long-entrenched and systematic oppression and dispossession of the Palestinian population, using non-violent, direct-action methods and principles. Founded in August 2001, ISM aims to support and strengthen the Palestinian popular resistance by being immediately alongside Palestinians in olive groves, on school […]
October 8: Community Discussion with Palestinian Rights Leaders from Mossawa (1948 Palestine)
Monday, October 8 6:30 pm Buena Vista United Methodist Church 2311 Buena Vista Avenue Alameda, CA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/150743759204820/ International Solidarity Movement, NorCal, in partnership with Buena Vista United Methodist Church invite community organizations and people of faith to join Dr. Nabila Espanioly and Jafar Farah, on Monday Oct 8 – quite appropriately on Indigenous People’s […]
September 15: Join ISM at the Palestine Cultural Day Festival in Foster City!
ISM-NorCal will have a table at the Palestine Cultural Day in Foster City, marking 40 years of celebrating culture and building bridges. Join us and visit our booth with Palestinian olive oil, soap and more, or choose from jewelry and kuffiyehs, books, stickers and flags to support the work of the International Solidarity Movement in […]
Interview: Katie Miranda on ISM, art, politics and Palestine
The following interview with Katie Miranda, ISM organizer, artist and jewelry designer, is reprinted from My Olive Roots, where it was originally featured. Interview by Maha Huneidi: Katie Miranda (KM) is a multifaceted artist/activist living in Portland, Oregon where she has a jewelry and apparel business: www.katiemiranda.com, and does cartoons for Mondoweiss and the Middle […]
June 2018 ISM Newsletter
Check out the articles in the new June 2018 issue of “Live from Palestine,” the ISM-NorCal newsletter, or download the PDF copy to save or print. Online Special: ISM tour comes at potential turning point for Palestine by Joe Catron The biggest question from the ISM speaking tour: Why? by Katie Miranda The Spectacular North America ISM […]
ISM tour comes at potential turning point for Palestine
By Joe Catron, April 2018 This year’s International Solidarity Movement tour, which brought ISM coordinators and volunteers to speak at over two dozen sites across Canada and the United States, came at a crucial moment in the struggle to liberate Palestine. Fresh on the heels of an Israeli occupation court’s sentencing of seventeen-year-old Palestinian activist […]
The biggest question from the ISM speaking tour: Why?
By Katie Miranda, April 2018 The first week of April, I had the honor of being a part of the North American International Solidarity Movement speaking tour. The idea for this tour came as a result of a meeting between various ISM support groups worldwide and people working on the ground with ISM in Palestine. […]