The Palestinian community of Tana has resorted since 2017 to live in the caves in the area after their homes have been demolished over a dozen times by Israeli military. Now, Stop the Wall and partners have joined the community to transform the caves into spaces of resistance and dignified existence to allow the families […]
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In Photos: International Workers’ Day demonstration
On May 2, as part of its International Workers’ Day actions, the New Unions joined a popular march organized by the Minimum Wage Campaign. First published in the New Unions blog: newunions.wordpress.com. The gathering began in the middle of Ramallah, at al-Manara circle. Participants from labor and farmers unions, women’s organizations, and other left and […]
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New Unions: International Workers’ Day statement
The first of May encompasses the best of human values: freedom, justice, equality, and peace. Human history coalesces through the blood and oppression of the workers and downtrodden who sacrificed – and still do – on the social, political, and economic stage. The liberation of human potential and labor from any form of exploitation and robbery […]
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Emergency Action: Not One Tree Less!
In reaction to the uprooting of 320 olive trees by the Israeli military in Bardala, the Stop the Wall Campaign and partners have organised only 48 hours later an ad-hoc tree planting voluntary day to re-plant trees on the very place Israel has wrecked havoc. On Monday April 23, the Israeli military arrived with bulldozers […]
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Making Women Visible in the Labor Struggle
As part of wider project to build up women’s organizing capacity within their respective unions, the New Unions concluded a 3-day leadership training at their central office in the West Bank city of Tulkarm on March 19. Under the slogan “Making Women Visible”, 14 Palestinian women participated in a series of workshop that explored the […]
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#GreatReturnMarch – Palestinian protests in Gaza, West Bank and inside the Green Line
On the fourth Friday of the #GreatReturnMarch Israel continues its criminal shoot-to-kill-and-maim policy towards the over 10 thousand Palestinians in protest inside the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip. Some 30 protests where also held in the occupied West Bank. Inside the Green Line, a mass demonstration denounced that “Your Independence is Our Nakba (‘catastrophe’ in […]
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Brazil: Protest against ‘Fair of Death’ denounces internationalization of Israeli apartheid
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 […]