Waves of Resistance Engulf the Middle East
Volume: 24
Number: 4
Flow Charts and Food The War Resisters League’s National Committee came together for a hot weekend of structure assessment and decision making around program in mid-July. Against the backdrop of the recent U.S. Social Forum – where War Resisters League had a robust presence amid more than 12,000 activists – these seemingly routine organizational exercises…
Road from Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Mejia By Camilo Mejia The New Press, 2007 320 pages, $24.95, hardcover Camilo Mejia was the first of the now numerous and growing list of soldier resisters to the Iraq War to go public. Mejia had served all but four months of an eight-year-term in…
Army of None: Strategies to Counter Military Recruitment, End War, and Build a Better World By Aimee Allison and David Solnit Seven Stories Press, 2007 224 pages, $14.95, paperback How can a movement rooted in the community on a local or regional level have a large enough impact that it could end up transforming the…
by Emily Winkelstein Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer by Phyllis Bennis Olive Branch PRess, 2007 208 pages, $10.00, paperback Here’s my confession – even though I have long identified myself as an activist for social justice, the first time I went to Palestine back in 2002, I knew nothing about what was really going…
Iran: A People Interrupted By Hamid Dabashi The New Press, 2007 311 pages: $26.95, hardcover In his introduction, Hamid Dabashi promises that by the end of his book the reader “will know more about Iran than the U.S. Department of State, the C.I.A., the Pentagon, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies…
In a desert nation in northwestern Africa, an Arab Muslim people have been engaged in a nonviolent struggle against a repressive U.S.-backed foreign military occupation that has largely been ignored by the peace and human rights community here in the United States. Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated territory about the size of Colorado, located on…
On Christmas Eve 2006, an off-duty Blackwater mercenary, freshly drunk from a party in Baghdad’s Green Zone, got into an argument with a security guard for one of Iraq’s vice presidents. Apparently, the Blackwater guard was trying to force his way into an area where senior Iraqi officials live when he was confronted. It’s…
Ever since the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through the ethnic cleansing of more than 750,000 indigenous Palestinians from their homeland and the destruction of Palestinian society, many “peace plans” have been put forth to resolve the “conflict.” But virtually all these plans have had one factor in common: They have…
The use of weaponized bulldozers manufactured by the Illinois-ased Caterpillar, Inc. (CAT), to demolish Palestinian homes and uproot Palestinian trees and orchards has killed dozens of Palestinians, mainly by the demolition of their homes while they are still in them. Nabila sl-Shu’bi was seven months pregnant when she, her three young children and four…
Dissent in the Heartland Seventeen peace activists, arrested while occupying the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, offices of Sen. Charles Grassley, (R-IA) and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), will go to trial on charges of criminal tresspass on October 29. On July 6, 75 activists traveled from across Iowa to take part in the nonviolent sit-in, organized by…
The human capacity for injustice can be a breathtaking thing. Iraqis living under U.S. occupation face a regime “far more cruel, deadly and venal than anything that existed under Hussein,” writes A.K. Gupta in his analysis of the Iraq war. Iraqis must deal with daily bomb attacks mass killings by death squads, impunity of the…
Lebanon is currently facing one of the most difficult periods of its history. A country known for its instability and civil wars, Lebanon has yet to overcome the postcolonial legacy of a country divided between 18 religious sects and ethnic groups, which include Christian, Sunni and Shia Muslim, Druze, and Armenian. In addition, the…
We spent August 1-12 traveling the length and breadth of Israel/Palestine on a delegation with the California-based Middle East Children’s Alliance. We stayed at the Ibda’a Cultural Center guest house in the Dheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem in Palestine; we talked with Palestinian and Israeli NGOs and grassroots groups; we visited Palestinian homes, a…
Though all recent media attention on Iran has focused on the Islamic Republic’s quest for nuclear power, another type of power has been slowly and steadily incubating in Iran, receiving very little to no coverage: people’s power. Over the past few years, a surging tide of activists, ranging from labor organizers, women, students, and…
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