Omar Barghouti, the Electronic Intifada, June 9th 2008.

Photo: Maan Images. Palestinians in Gaza take cover during clashes with Israeli troops during demonstrations marking 60 years of Palestinian dispossession from their homeland. May 15th 2008.
“The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet but not to make them die of hunger,” said Dov Weissglas, Sharon’s [...]

Broadcasts from Beirut VII: Rami Zuraky professor, activist in Beirut: Land and People.

Photo: Shattered glass in south Lebanon.

A Tadamon! interview project aiming to highlight progressive voices from the ground in Lebanon on the ongoing conflict, voices independent from major political parties…
May 2008 saw political turmoil in Lebanon reach its most violent peak since the [...]

Call to support the first major student union in Quebec or Canada to back
the international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions on Israel…

Montreal May 2008: Across the world grassroots movements struggling in opposition to Israeli apartheid are marking the 60th year of the Palestinian Nakba (”catastrophe”) – 60 years of dispossession, ethnic cleansing and [...]

Al-Ahram. by Amina Elbendary. May 2008.

Photo: Cairo streets…

What connections can be drawn between the waves of student and popular protest that swept the world in 1968? Amina Elbendary asks Hossam Issa, an Egyptian student in Paris in May 1968…
May 1968 was an exceptional moment in world history, but like moments of protest before and since [...]

Al-Ahram. May 2008.

Photo: Cairo open sky.

In May 1968, student protests in Paris challenged the foundations of the social order in the heart of the industrially advanced West. Al-Ahram Weekly investigates what remains of the wave of student activism that swept the world 40 years ago and recalls events at the time in Egypt…
On 20 February [...]

Adam Hanieh. Socialist Project: the Bullet.

Photo: Active Stills. Demonstration against Apartheid wall, Bil’in, Palestine.

In July 2005, over 170 Palestinian organizations urged the world to adopt a campaign of boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel in the manner of South Africa Apartheid. This call was signed by all the main Palestinian trade union federations, as [...]

rabble.ca by Raja G. Khouri. May 19th, 2008.

Photo: Lebanese woman admits Israeli military destruction in south Lebanon 2006.
A cluster bomb dropped on Centre Block on Parliament Hill could also reach in its spread the East Block, Senate, Supreme Court, Sparks Street pedestrian mall, Ottawa Visitors Center, and parts of the Wellington and Metcalfe thoroughfares. Such [...]

Daily Star. Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Photo: Mary Ellen Davis. Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in ruins.

BEIRUT: Palestinian refugees across Lebanon staged rallies on Tuesday to mark the first anniversary of the conflict at the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp during which they stressed the need to reconstruct the camp and realize their right to return to [...]

Tuesday, May 15th. Agence France Presse (AFP)

Photo: Palestinian youth flash victory sign in southern Lebanon.

Marwahin: Hundreds of Palestinian refugees headed to Lebanon’s southern border with Israel on Wednesday marking 60 years since the creation of the Jewish state and exile from what was once Palestine. “We want to return to our country. We desperately miss [...]

Photo from Artists Against Apartheid III in Montreal from photojournalist Ion Etxebarria.

Vocalist Joel “Jahnice” Janis a Haïtian performer from the Kalmunity Vibe Collective raises a sign of solidarity at Artists Against Apartheid III at La Sala Rossa in Montreal.

Lebanon’s government cancels measure against Hezbollah.

Interview with Raed Rafei, a Lebanese reporter working with the Los Angeles Times.
Broadcasts from Beirut III: A Tadamon! interview project aiming to highlight progressive voices from the ground in Lebanon on the ongoing conflict, voices independent from major political parties…

Photo: Apartheid in Palestine, an Israeli check-point.

Dear Prime Minister Harper.

We read with dismay and sadness the report of your remarks in the Montreal Gazette with regard to those who criticize the State of Israel. As Jews, and as Canadians, we are deeply offended by your allegations that objections to Israeli policies that include the occupation, [...]

to student unions and social movements across Quebec and Canada.

Declaration from L’Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante.

An open letter to Nadine Gordimer from Tadamon!

Dear Nadine Gordimer.

It is with great shock and dismay that we have learned of your intention to participate in the Israeli Writers’ Festival this May, in conjunction with the “Israel at 60″ festivities (largely supported by the Israeli Foreign Ministry). The function of cultural events such as this [...]

Bold claims about Middle East peace from
London ring hollow in the empty streets of Gaza.

Sami Abdel-Shafi, Gaza City, the Guardian. Saturday May 3 2008

It is a strange feeling: after working as a productive professional in Gaza for five years, I have become a black market junkie. I make several phone calls a day hunting for [...]