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Palestine Conditions "More Brutal" Than in U.S. South of 50 Years Ago, Says Author Alice Walker (Interview Transcript)
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Alice Walker has been a longtime advocate for the rights of Palestinians. Last summer, she was one of the activists on the U.S. ship that attempted to sail to Gaza as part of the Freedom Flotilla aimed at challenging Israel’s embargo of the Gaza Strip. Alice Walker also serves on the jury of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, an international people’s tribunal created in 2009 to bring attention to the responsibility other states bear for Israel’s violations of ...
Keep Reading »Call for Participants -- Mideast Wire's The Exchange: City-Focused Conferences in Beirut, Tunis, & Turkey
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The Exchange is an effort by Mideastwire.com and its partners to promote understanding and academic enrichment through a variety of city-focused conferences in and around the Middle East. During their stay, typically lasting from one to two weeks, students and professionals from around the world engage directly with some of the leading intellectuals, academics and political leaders in the country - representing all sides. The First Exchange was launched in June 2008 in ...
Keep Reading »Press Release and Video: Russell Tribunal on Palestine
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Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, and Angela Davis at the Russell Tribunal on Palestine New York City, October 6-7, 2012 The world's most prominent public intellectual Noam Chomsky, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, and the civil rights leader Angela Davis will be offering and weighing testimony at the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP), an international people’s tribunal that was created to expose human rights abuses and stir ...
Keep Reading »Divided We Stand: Libya's Enduring Conflicts
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[The following report was issued by International Crisis Group on 14 September 2012.] Divided We Stand: Libya's Enduring Conflicts Executive Summary The 11 September killing of the U.S. ambassador and three of his colleagues is a stark reminder of Libya’s security challenges. It also should serve as a wake-up call. There is, of course, more than one way to look at the country today: as one of the more encouraging Arab uprisings, recovering faster than ...
Keep Reading »Press Release: The River Has Two Banks
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The politics of segregation has greatly hindered a collective understanding of shared realities and common histories across the east and west banks of the River Jordan. As individuals who are invested in the relationship between Palestine and Jordan, the historical trajectory of the two compels us to examine where we are now and how we can build new alliances to overcome the social, economic, and political challenges of the day. The river has two banks is an ...
Keep Reading »Reports Roundup (September 29)
[The following list is a compilation of the reports, statements, and other materials featured on the Jadaliyya Reports Page this past week.] Living Under Drones: Death, Injury, and Trauma to Civilians from US Drone Practices in Pakistan This study, published jointly by centers at Stanford Law School and NYU School of Law, investigates the effects of American drone strikes on civilians in Pakistan, including not only casualty statistics, but also mental and social ...
Keep Reading »Call for Applications: PARC Fellowship for Scholars Conducting Field-Based Research on Palestine, 2013-2014
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The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) announces its 14th annual round of competition for post-doctoral and doctoral research fellowships in Palestinian Studies for 2013 - 2014. To be eligible for research fellowships, the following criteria must be met: The research project must make a contribution to Palestinian Studies. The research can be in any area of Palestinian Studies, including the humanities, social sciences, economics, law, health and sciences. ...
Keep Reading »UNHCR Releases New Guidelines for Detention of Asylum-Seekers
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[The following press release and guidelines were issued by the United Nations High Commission on Refugees on 21 September 2012.] Press Release The UN refugee agency on Friday issued new guidelines on the detention of asylum-seekers and said UNHCR was concerned at its growing use in a number of countries. "The guidelines represent UNHCR policy and are intended as advice for governments and other bodies making decisions on detaining people," spokesman Adrian ...
Keep Reading »NYC Event -- Feminisms in the Time of Empire: Complicities, Contestations, and Solidarities (29 September 2012)
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Feminisms in the Time of Empire: Complicities, Contestations and Solidarities Saturday, 29 September 12:00-3:00 Institute for Public Knowledge 20 Cooper Square Discourses of race, gender and sexuality have served an important ideological function within imperialist projects. The current phase of US imperialism is no exception. Today, this project calls on increasingly explicit forms of Islamophobia, forms that circulate in news programs, on subway billboards, in the ...
Keep Reading »California's Largest Student Union Votes to Condemn Attempts at Silencing Dissent
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[The following statement was issued by the University of California Student Association on 15 September 2012.] The University of California Student Association, which represents hundreds of thousands of students at all ten UC campuses, passed a resolution today condemning recent attempts to censure boycott and divestment efforts by Palestinian human rights activists on campus, and demanding that the UC stop profiting from Israel’s human rights violations. The motion ...
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