Peace with justice in the Holy Land

Activist Radio has the following on this week:

Voices for peace in the Holy Land, a compilation of discussions and music for the holidays. Hear the views of Noam Chomsky, Yonatan Shapira and others.

Activist Radio can be heard: Thursdays 5-6 pm on WVKR 91.3 FM at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY; Thursdays from 9-10 pm on WBDY 99.5 fm at The Bundy in Binghamton, NY; Sundays 1:30-2:30 pm on WESU 88.1 FM at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT; Sundays 4-5 pm from WIOF 104.1 FM in Woodstock, NY; and Sundays 5-6 pm from the Progressive Radio Network at PRN.FM. Past programs are available as a podcast, or anytime on the web at ClassWars.org.

 

Why Is the State Making Us Sign a Pledge About Israel?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/opinion/israel-arkansas-bds-pledge.html

We’re a Small Arkansas Newspaper. Why Is the State Making Us Sign a Pledge About Israel?

Nov. 22, 2021

GUEST: Anas Amireh, Palestinian/American activist and organizer of the coalition to boycott Duty Free Americas

Activist Radio has the following guest on this week:

GUEST: Anas Amireh, Palestinian/American activist and organizer of the coalition to boycott Duty Free Americas, talks about how this US company is funding the settler movement which is forcing Palestinians from their homes and land in the West Bank.

https://truthout.org/articles/boycott-duty-free-americas-dont-buy-airport-goods-that-fund-israeli-settlers/

Activist Radio can be heard: Thursdays 5-6 pm on WVKR 91.3 FM at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY; Sundays 1:30-2:30 pm on WESU 88.1 FM at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT; Sundays 4-5 pm from WIOF 104.1 FM in Woodstock, NY; and Sundays 5-6 pm from the Progressive Radio Network at PRN.FM.

https://www.classwars.org

Boycott Duty Free Americas

Tell Duty Free Americas, and its owner, the South Florida Falic family, to stop funding the Israeli settler movement that is responsible for ongoing violence against Palestinians and the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and land.

We had a good showing of people who came out for this demonstration in Woodstock. Thanks to those who participated.

Photo by Ellen Davidson

BOYCOTT DUTY FREE AMERICAS until it stops funding Israeli apartheid!

Please join us in Woodstock on Sunday, October 31st, from 11 AM until noon at the Village Green 

Tell Duty Free Americas, and its owners, the South Florida Falic family, to stop funding the Israeli settler movement that is responsible for ongoing violence against Palestinians and the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and land.

According to the Associated Press: "The [Falic] family has donated at least $5.6 million to settler groups in the West Bank and east Jerusalem over the past decade...The Falics support the ultranationalist Jewish community in Hebron, whose members include several prominent followers of a late rabbi banned from Israeli politics for his racist views…. "

According to the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz: "The Falic family also operates the Panama-based Segal Foundation for Israel, which ran afoul of even Israeli law because it “did little more than transfer millions of shekels to right-wing organizations in Israel… ."

Shopping at Duty Free Americas helps the Falic Family foot the bill for settlement expansion in Palestine/Israel!  

BOYCOTT DUTY FREE AMERICAS until it stops funding Israeli apartheid!

If you can, bring a sign saying Boycott Duty Free Americas or Duty Free Americas: Stop funding ethnic cleansing.

Recognizing Ben & Jerry's

 

The 2021 William Sloane Coffin, Jr. Peacemaker Awards

Honoring the Activism of Athletes

Monday, October 4th at 6pm ET on ZOOM

 

Peace Action New York State's William Sloane Coffin Awards evening is coming up on Monday! Here are some highlights:

 

➼ Recognizing Ben & Jerry's for raising their voice to defend Palestinian rights. (We will hear from co-founder Ben Cohen.)

 

Come join us for an evening that will keep you believin'.

 

CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS.

 

Boycott PUMA

 

It’s not a good time to be PUMA’s CEO. Last month we learned just how nervous he is about the growing campaign to boycott PUMA over its support for Israeli apartheid. Teams in several countries are dropping PUMA, and PUMA’s celebrity ambassadors and business partners are raising ethical concerns. Now nearly 60,000 people have signed a petition to PUMA by global advocacy organization SumOfUs. And tomorrow, September 18, groups around the world, from New Zealand to South Africa to North America, will join the #BoycottPUMA Global Day of Action. We don’t particularly enjoy seeing PUMA’s CEO so agitated, but we would really enjoy seeing Palestinians enjoy freedom and justice. So we advise him to end PUMA’s complicity in apartheid Israel’s denial of Palestinian rights. Join nearly 60,000 calling on PUMA to “stop its complicity with the Israeli apartheid state.”

Company’s decision is not a contradiction nor is it anti-Semitic.

We are the founders of Ben & Jerry’s. We are also proud Jews. It’s part of who we are and how we’ve identified ourselves for our whole lives. As our company began to expand internationally, Israel was one of our first overseas markets. We were then, and remain today, supporters of the State of Israel.

But it’s possible to support Israel and oppose some of its policies, just as we’ve opposed policies of the U.S. government. As such, we unequivocally support the decision of the company to end business in the occupied territories, which a majority of the international community, including the United Nations, has deemed an illegal occupation.

While we no longer have any operational control of the company we founded in 1978, we’re proud of its action and believe it is on the right side of history. In our view, ending the sales of ice cream in the occupied territories is one of the most important decisions the company has made in its 43-year history. It was especially brave of the company. Even though it undoubtedly knew that the response would be swift and powerful, Ben & Jerry’s took the step to align its business and operations with its progressive values.

That we support the company’s decision is not a contradiction nor is it anti-Semitic. In fact, we believe this act can and should be seen as advancing the concepts of justice and human rights, core tenets of Judaism.

full article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/28/opinion/ben-and-jerry-israel.html

What a foul flavor that would be

 

One Sweet Vote

Ben & Jerry's to boycott West Bank settlements, east Jerusalem

"We believe it is inconsistent with our values for Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to be sold in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)."

Jerusalem Post  Israel News

GUEST: Jane Hirschmann, author, psychotherapist, and co-founder of Jews Say No

 Activist Radio has the following guest on this week:

GUEST: Jane Hirschmann, author, psychotherapist, and co-founder of Jews Say No, talks about her work as co-chair of the Freedom2Boycott NYS Coalition.

https://truthout.org/authors/jane-hirschmann/

Activist Radio is broadcast: Thursdays 5-6 pm from WVKR 91.3 FM at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY; Sundays 4-5 pm from WIOF 104.1 FM in Woodstock, NY; and Sundays 5-6 pm from the Progressive Radio Network at https://PRN.FM. It will also be posted on https://classwars.org for the next ten weeks. Simply click on the date to hear it.

Tell Puma not to support apartheid

Last week, Israeli bulldozers as well as heavily armed Israeli police and soldiers stormed the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem, in apartheid Israel’s latest round of Palestinian home demolitions.

 

In Silwan, just as in Sheikh Jarrah and across historic Palestine, Israel is carrying out a decades-long policy of gradual ethnic cleansing through settlement expansion. At the same time, it violently represses Palestinians trying to save their homes and livelihoods.

 

What does Puma have to do with this?

 

Just north of Silwan and Sheikh Jarrah is an official Israel Football Association (IFA) pitch. The IFA includes a number of teams and pitches in illegal Israeli settlements that force Palestinian families from their homes.

 

Puma is the IFA’s main sponsor. Not only that, just over 1 km away sits a swanky outlet of Puma’s exclusive distributor in Israel, Factory 54, built on occupied land in violation of international law.

Tell PUMA: Supporting Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing is a very bad look!

Share the map of PUMA's complicity in Israel’s gradual ethnic cleansing on Facebook

GUEST: Luma Nichol, writer, LGBTQI activist and Co-founder of the United Front Against Fascism

Activist Radio has the following guest on this week:

GUEST: Luma Nichol, writer, LGBTQI activist and Co-founder of the United Front Against Fascism (UFAF) that was organized to counter White Aryan Resistance, the Populist Party, and Aryan Nations in the Northwest, talks about today's anarchist movement.

https://socialism.com/fs-article/are-todays-anarchists-movement-builders

Activist Radio is broadcast: Thursdays 5-6 pm from WVKR 91.3 FM at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY; Sundays 4-5 pm from WIOF 104.1 FM in Woodstock, NY; and Sundays 5-6 pm from the Progressive Radio Network at PRN.FM. It will also be posted on the ClassWars website for the next ten weeks. Simply click on the date to hear it.

 

FREE PALESTINE is the theme for this Wednesday Walk for Black Lives

FREE PALESTINE is the theme for this Wednesday Walk for Black Lives on June 9 at 5:00 p.m. at Academy Green Park in Uptown Kingston. Jewish Voice for Peace/Middle East Crisis Response will present a handful of speakers including Palestinians, Muslims and Jews. They will give brief overviews of the region’s history, current political situation and Palestinians’ resistance to Apartheid Israel.

The weekly Wednesday Walk for Black Lives is a coalition of grassroots organizations including ENJAN, Rise Up Kingston, Citizen Action and Real Kingston Tenants Union.

A call for Jews to endorse BDS

 

A call for Jews to endorse Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

About Face: Veterans Against the War

From the state violence we've seen recently in Colombia and Palestine to the ongoing atrocities against poor, Black, Brown and Indigenous communities at here at home, it is as clear as ever that our anti-militarist struggle must be rooted in anti-colonial analysis and internationalist. We must understand the wars we seek to end as functions of this same, broader system and take action in solidarity with other communities being actively attacked by that same system accordingly. Our struggle is collective and our power is solidarity. 

Today, and in the coming days, there are several actions we can each take to show up for our Palestinian comrades and I've listed a few below. Please join us in taking a stand in this critical moment, and continuing to be involved in the long term organizing to dismantle these systems of violence entirely. 

1. Learn and protest- Curated actions and resources from Palestinian Youth Movement. This includes a list of educational resources, credible sources of information about what's happening on the ground in Sheikh Jarrah, and a list of demonstrations happening (mostly tonight) around the country. 
   
2. Sign a letter to Congress- Petition to end U.S. complicity in Israeli government abuses organized by our allies at Adalah Justice Project and US Campaign for Palestinian Rights. You can also spread the word on your social media using these graphics. 
   
3. Take Direct Action-5 ways to boycott, divest and advocate against complicity in the Israeli government's human rights abuses curated by BDS United States. 

Thank you as always, for being a part of this movement and community. We are grateful to be in this fight with you. 

In love and solidarity always, 

Brittany Ramos DeBarros

May 15 events

As Israel attempts to ethnically cleanse Jerusalem and drops bombs on Gaza, join us tomorrow, no matter what time zone you are in, for global rallies in solidarity with Palestine!   The BDS Movement is hosting discussions on international solidarity and organising against apartheid and settler-colonialism with speakers from Palestine, Japan, Malaysia, Kuwait and the Chagos Islands (Mauritius).

Register for Nakba 2021: International Solidarity to Resist Israel's Apartheid - Saturday May 15th 11AM Palestine time

The BDS movement will also co-host a rally with Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) UK, Jewish Voice for Peace, and the South African BDS Coalition.

Register for Nakba73: Global Online Rally For  Palestine - Saturday May 15th 7PM Palestine time

In solidarity, The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)

Stop the "Hebron Fund"

My name is Tarteel, and I work with the CPT Hebron team. Recently, we are partners with Good Shepherd Collective "GSC" in Stop the "Hebron Fund" campaign to Highlight the legal violation of the "Hebron Fund" inside the USA.

The Hebron Fund plays a crucial role for the support of the settler movement through financial aid of the settler movement in Hebron. The Hebron Fund is registered as a US-based charitable organization. As such, it receives tax-deductible donations from the US - money from the US-American taxpayers. The campaign to Stop the Hebron Fund aims to stop the transfer of charitable money to this racist and illegal organization.

We need to collect more signatures for the petition and especially people from NY, however, we've been having a hard time finding organizations that could support the campaign, so If you are from NY, Part of an organization that is based in NY, or you know organizations or people who could support us, please contact us.

Feel free to contact me or the Palestine team if you have any questions, 

Looking forward to hearing back from you, 

Best Regards, 

Tarteel

 

Get "Engaging Critics of BDS"

We are pleased to announce the publication of Engaging Critics of BDS: A Resource for Activists! QPIN has written this guide as a tool for BDS activists to help counter some often encountered arguments from critics of BDS.

This document was inspired by discussions held at a Quaker consultation in April, 2016 organized by QPIN and hosted by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC).

Get Engaging Critics of BDS here: Engaging Critics of BDS print version

GUEST: Jen Marlowe, award-winning author, documentary filmmake

Activist Radio has the following guest on this week:

GUEST: Jen Marlowe, award-winning author, documentary filmmaker and playwright, talks about her most recent film, "There Is a Field," and how Black actors help audiences understand the links between Black Lives Matter and Palestinian liberation.

https://www.thereisafield.movie

Activist Radio is broadcast: Thursdays 5-6 pm from WVKR 91.3 FM at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY; Sundays 4-5 pm from WIOF 104.1 FM in Woodstock, NY; and Sundays 5-6 pm from the Progressive Radio Network at PRN.FM. It will also be posted on the ClassWars website for the next ten weeks. Simply click on the date to hear it.

https://www.classwars.org

 

Too Radical for Harvard?

 Cornel West on Failed Fight for Tenure

"So I figured it had to be political. And the most taboo issue on U.S. campuses these days, in many instances, has to do with the vicious Israeli occupation of precious Palestinians. It’s very difficult to have a respectful, robust conversation about that. And I am unequivocal in my solidarity with Palestinian brothers and sisters. And as you’ve heard me say on many times, you know, if there’s a Palestinian occupation of Jews, then I’m unequivocally in solidarity with Jews. I hate injustice. I hate occupation. I’m not in any way going to stop talking about the Palestinian plight and predicament."

#SheBoycotts

Today, International Women’s Day, companies supporting Israeli apartheid like Puma and AXA will be marketing their supposed support for gender equality. Take action now to call for full equality for all women.

Puma is launching “She Moves Us,” a marketing campaign to “celebrate the women who have moved culture and sports forward.”

She Moves Us, but Puma supports illegal Israeli settlements forcing Palestinian women and their families from their homes. She Moves Us, but Puma supports Israel’s military occupation preventing Palestinian women athletes from traveling to matches. She Moves Us, but Puma supports Israeli apartheid, including medical apartheid denying millions of Palestinians vaccines during a pandemic.

Celebrate Palestinian women in sports by joining

#SheBoycotts.     Share the video of Palestinian athletes calling to boycott Puma until it ends support for Israeli apartheid.

 

Yalla Y'all | Episode 1 | w/ Prof. Alex Lubin

About Yalla Y'all

After last year’s killing of George Floyd and the much-needed national reckoning with racial injustice and white supremacy which has been sparked by his death, AMP decided to better educate itself and its supporters about anti-Black racism, convening a series of powerful monthly webinars entitled #LetsTalkBLM​.

Building on this webinar series, Felicia Eaves, AMP's Black-Palestinian Solidarity Coordinator, undertook an oral history project of Black and Palestinian activists and allies to better document the long-standing history of solidarity between the two communities and how they have supported each others’ struggles.

What made you decide to run for office?

 HT 
What made you decide to run for office?

ZM
I started organizing around solidarity for Palestinians. I cofounded my college’s Students for Justice in Palestine. And when you get started in that kind of organizing, you typically have zero to negative ambition to political office in the United States.

Soon after I graduated, I worked a bunch of different jobs, as seemingly everyone my age does. And then I heard about a man named Khader El-Yateem, a Palestinian Lutheran minister who was running for city council in Bay Ridge and southern Brooklyn. He was a socialist, he was pro-BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions), and he was running for local office. These are all things that I had been told could never exist simultaneously in a person. And their existence was not a cause for fear or anxiety among so many but, in fact, of inspiration.

There was definitely a point at which I started to call myself a socialist, and that was Bernie’s 2016 campaign. I ran the paid canvass for that campaign, and that was the beginning of my work within local politics in New York City in a serious way. From there, I became campaign manager for a state senate campaign in the same area, Ross Barkan. I then became a foreclosure prevention counselor at an organization called Chhaya CDC in Jackson Heights. I simultaneously became a DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) point person on the Tiffany Cabán for district attorney campaign.

What led me to make the jump to run myself was sustained involvement in DSA, and then a good friend and fellow member asked me at an electoral meeting to run for this seat. That was the first time I thought about mounting a primary challenge. And here I am. ...

Zohran Mamdani represents New York’s 36th district in the state assembly

whole article at: 
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/02/zohran-mamdani-new-york-state-assembly-queens

Criminal justice system's assault on Muslims families

Activist Radio has the following guest on this week:

GUESTS: Leena Al-Arian, Executive Director of the Coalition for Civil Freedoms, and Zaira Abu Baker, the daughter of Shukri Abu Baker who was horrifically sentenced to 65 years for providing charity to Palestinians, talk about the criminal justice system's assault on Muslims families in the United States.
https://www.civilfreedoms.org

Activist Radio is broadcast: Thursdays 5-6 pm from WVKR 91.3 FM at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY; Sundays 4-5 pm from WIOF 104.1 FM in Woodstock, NY; and Sundays 5-6 pm from the Progressive Radio Network at PRN.FM. It will also be posted on the ClassWars website for the next ten weeks. Simply click on the date to hear it.

Thanks,

Fred

Activist Radio
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