Jamal Dajani, 12.31.2009
Senior Director and Producer of Mosaic News, Link TV
More than a thousand activists from around 40 countries remained in Cairo after the Egyptian government declined them entry due to the "sensitive situation" in the Palestinian territory. When was it not a "sensitive situation" in Palestine?
Patricia DeGennaro, 12.31.2009
Assistant professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs
The continued bombardments of people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Pakistan and Yemen are not giving us the peace and security we crave. In fact, the result is to the contrary.
Eric Trager, 12.30.2009
Writer, Ph.D. Student
CODEPINK's goals have nothing to do with actual Palestinian freedom. Whether CODEPINK is disrupting a Senate hearing or demonstrating in Cairo, its purpose is the same: to vilify American foreign policy.
Richard Hall, 12.29.2009
Human rights, labour rights and the far right.
An 85-year-old Holocaust survivor entered the second day of her hunger strike on Tuesday, in protest over the Egyptian government's refusal to allow an international Palestinian solidarity march to enter the Gaza Strip.
Kathy Kelly, 12.29.2009
Co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence
About 500 people, including several hundred Gaza Freedom Marchers and scores of Egyptian citizens, are holding a rally outside the offices of an Egyptian Union of Journalists.
Robert Naiman, 12.30.2009
Policy Director of Just Foreign Policy
Cairo - Twelve hours before this writing, it appeared that 50,000 Palestinians in Gaza planning to march to the Erez border crossing with Israel on Th...
James S. Gordon, 12.29.2009
Founder and director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, D.C.
We have been on a journey," says the psychologist who is leading the final session of Mohammed's mind-body skills group. "Men and women speaking together from their hearts, all finding new friends."
Hani Almadhoun, 12.28.2009
DC based, Gaza native Stand up Comic
Name calling and tarnishing the image of frail Gazans by casting them as monstrous smugglers is unfortunate and has to stop.
Kathy Kelly, 12.28.2009
Co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Gaza Freedom March participants are calling their supporters around the world to contact Egyptian embassies and urge them to free the marchers and allow them to proceed to Gaza.
Yossi Zur, 12.28.2009
Mawaz Abu Sharach and Majdi Amro, the two murderers of my seventeen year-old son, are currently in jail. But they could soon be freed with a thousand others, all in exchange for one Israeli prisoner.
Robert Naiman, 12.28.2009
Policy Director of Just Foreign Policy
The government of Egypt is taking a spectacularly hard line against international solidarity efforts in support of civilians in Gaza on the one-year anniversary of the Israeli invasion.
Jillian York, 12.27.2009
Boston-based writer and activist
The Gaza Freedom March, an international caravan for peace set to culminate in a nonviolent march alongside the people of Gaza on December 31 to end t...
Jodie Evans, 12.24.2009
CODEPINK Co-Founder
When we arrive in Cairo on Sunday, December 27, the one-year anniversary of the Israeli invasion of Gaza, we will call on Mrs. Mubarak to once more open her heart to the suffering across her border.
Coleen Rowley, 12.23.2009
Former FBI Special Agent
Gandhi said that the purpose of nonviolent action is to "quicken" the conscience of humankind. Citizens of Minnesota are called upon to stand in sol...
Jillian York, 12.23.2009
Boston-based writer and activist
Mohammad Alsaafin is a Palestinian refugee, from the village of Fallujah which lies in what is now Israel. He has never visited the village; his gran...
Medea Benjamin, 12.22.2009
Co-founder, CODEPINK: Women for Peace
Citing escalating tensions on the Gaza-Egypt border, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry just informed us that the Rafah border will be closed over the coming weeks, into January.
Khulood Ghanem, 12.22.2009
2008-2009 Gaza invasion diarist
At the start of the Gaza war I was on my way walking in the street. I heard the first rocket, the second and the third, at this moment I could see nothing, all I remember was the biggest explosion I have ever seen.
James S. Gordon, 12.22.2009
Founder and director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, D.C.
Sitting in the circles of our small groups we move more deeply into each others' minds and hearts. Experiences and feelings that are rarely if ever publicly revealed in tradition-saturated Gaza are shared.
James S. Gordon, 12.21.2009
Founder and director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, D.C.
December 20, 2009
Day 6 of December 2009 Gaza Mind-Body Skills Training
If Gaza is saturated with tradition, and blessed with generous impulses, i...
Robert Naiman, 12.21.2009
Policy Director of Just Foreign Policy
On December 31, together with more than 1000 peace advocates from around the world, I plan to join with tens of thousands of Palestinians in a march in Gazao for action to relieve Gaza's humanitarian crisis.
Richard Hall, 12.18.2009
Human rights, labour rights and the far right.
BEIRUT: It was a typically cold London day in January earlier this year when, in front of thousands of people demonstrating against the Israeli invasi...