Olive Oil: Sustaining Palestinian Farmers
By ISM-NorCal Al’Ard (The Land), is a Palestinian company started to support impoverished and small Palestinian farmers who were struggling to sell their olive oil at a fair price by providing them with state-of-the art facilities and helping them into the global market. Today, Al-Ard is the largest Palestinian exporter of olive oil, working with […]
Katie Miranda interview with Jonas Moffat Caballero
The following interview with Jonas Moffat Caballero is republished from Katie Miranda’s website. I met Jonas Caballero in 2006 in the West Bank when we were both human rights workers in Hebron. We became inseparable and a mutual friend even referred to him and my shadow and vice versa. In 2007 he was abruptly arrested […]
Thurs, Aug. 12: Join us to leaflet Barbara Lee film in Berkeley!
“Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth To Power,” will have another preview screening on Thursday, August 12 at 7 pm on an outdoor screen at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, which is at 2155 Center St., at the corner of Oxford St., right across the main UC campus and just a block from the Downtown Berkeley BART. After […]
Tonight, August 2 in Oakland: Come leaflet Barbara Lee movie Mon. evening at Grand Lake
>Please join us tonight, Monday, August 2 to leaflet outside the screening of the new film on Rep. Barbara Lee! Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth To Power,” with Rep. Lee in attendance, will screen this evening at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland (3200 Grand Avenue and Lake Park Avenue). In response to her increasingly poor record on […]
ISM part of Palestinian call to #DefundRacism, cut charitable status of settler organizations
The International Solidarity Movement is one of the over 150 Palestinian organizations, activists and municipalities that launched the Campaign to Defund Racism today, July 21. The campaign calls upon New York Attorney General Letitia James to revoke the charitable licenses of multiple U.S.-based settler organizations headquartered in the state. All of these groups benefit from […]
Summer 2021 ISM Newsletter
The all-new Summer 2021 edition of the ISM NorCal newsletter, “Live from Palestine, ” is now available. The newsletter is edited by ISM’s Jeff Pekrul and contains news reports, diaries, analysis, events and more. Download the PDF copy or read the articles below:
Interview with ISM Founder Huwaida Arraf
NorCal ISM newsletter editor Jeff Pekrul interviewed Huwaida Arraf by phone in April. Huwaida is a founder of the International Solidarity Movement and now lives in Detroit, Michigan. Q: You were one of the founders of ISM nearly 20 years ago. Did you think the organization would still be around after this many years? A: […]
Palestinian Resistance and the Continuing Struggle
by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network With the announcement of a ceasefire in Gaza, Palestine, one lesson is extremely clear: Palestinian resistance lives, Palestinian resistance thrives, Palestinian resistance unites, and Palestinian resistance wins. The resistance, in all of its varied and creative forms, is deeply rooted in the Palestinian people inside and outside Palestine. The […]
New Young Adult Book on Silwan Resistance
DETERMINED TO STAY: Palestinian Youth Fight for Their Village by Jody Sokolower; Introduction by Nick Estes; Paperback, 208 pages, 6” x 9” Buy from MECA https://tinyurl.com/uex3t7vy Silwan is a Palestinian village just outside the ancient walls of Jerusalem’s Old City. Determined to Stay is the moving story of its people in the face of occupation. As Silwani youth and community members […]
Tell Congress to End the Blockade of Gaza!
As we go to press, the Gaza Strip enduring yet another Israeli bombing campaign and over 200 Palestinians in Gaza, including 50 children have been killed in the past few days. But Gaza was in crisis before this — it has been blockaded for the past 13 years. We say enough of this madness! It […]