On April 10, about 100 activists from São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro held a protest against the 2018 edition of the LAAD, the International Corporate Security Trade Fair, which takes place this week in São Paulo. Known as “Fair of Death”, this is the biggest weapon trade market in Latin America and includes many […]
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Palestine and Latin America: Marches for Justice meet
StoptheWallOn Tuesday, April 10, the Mexican Coordination for Palestine (CORSOPAL) and the #WorldwithoutWalls delegation handed over a letter from the Palestinian Stop the Wall Campaign to the Via Crucis March of Migrants as it arrived in Mexico City. At the same moment that Palestinians in Gaza started the #GreatReturnMarch, migrants from all over Central America, […]
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#GazaReturnMarch continues despite Israeli killings, global action is needed now
The Long March of Return in Gaza has continued last Friday. Another time thousands have joined the protest in the “Friday of the Tyres”. Again, of people from Gaza strip gathered in the return camps, tents set up at the border inside Gaza. Emboldened by the impunity the international community has granted to Israel after […]
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Towards the 8th World Social Forum on Migration
The World Social Forum on Migration is under construction – a Forum that fights the Walls that oppress the people, fights for refugee rights and stands for a #WorldwithoutWalls. As Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign we join the struggle and the process towards the World Social Forum on Migration, in particular facilitating the theme on “Realities […]
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In Response to Israel’s Latest Massacre in Gaza: Arms Embargo Now!
Last Friday, Israel yet again used Palestinian civilians as guinea pigs in its weapons laboratory, testing its new teargas-firing drones against civilians in Gaza. The export of Israeli military technology, “field-tested” on Palestinians, contributes substantially to financing Israel’s oppression of Palestinians and military aggression against other nations. The BDS National Committee welcomes the recent […]
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#LandDay – Israel’s planned killing of civilians
Today, Israel killed at least 15 and injured over 1200 Palstinians in the Gaza Strip alone. More were injured in protests in the West Bank while Palestinian citizens of Israel have lead huge protests. These unprecedented Land Day protests are the Palestinian response of resistance to the ongoing Israeli ethnic cleansing and colonization of Palestinian […]
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Palestinian BDS National Committee Celebrates International Women’s Day
The Palestinian BDS National Committee celebrates International Women's Day, says "Justice is always a feminist issue. And in turn, justice in Palestine is a feminist issue, and the rights of women are fundamental to our movement’s pursuit of a safe, just and dignified world for all." The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) […]
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“Here We Remain” campaign continues in Jenin
With the participation of dozens of villagers, the Stop the Wall Campaign have held a volunteer day for the cultivation of olive trees in lands near the apartheid Wall in the village of Faqu’a. Last Friday, March 2, a large number of activists, old and young, from the village as well as representatives of local […]
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Bilin’s protests at 13: the struggle continues
Today, the village of Bil’in has marked 13 years of popular struggle against Israel’s apartheid Wall and its regime of apartheid, colonialism and occupation. Activists have staged a mass protest challenging the Wall on its lands and calling for BDS. At noon time around one thousand Palestinian and international activists gathered in a protest called […]
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Al Aqaba protest: We’ll defend every dunum of our land
Sunday, February 24, two hundred Jordan Valley activists protested against settler takeover of yet more of their land in Israel’s attempt to ethnically cleanse the area. Settlers had in the last days occupied land of the residents of al Aqaba, close to the Israeli military checkpoint at Tayaseer in the northern Jordan Valley. In response the […]