Grassroots Activism

Surround me with songs of deliverance: crossing the borders of solidarity

by Haitham Sabbah January 3, 2010

By Haitham Sabbah | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Activists for Palestine have to have the same goal as Palestinians – the liberation of Palestine. They have to pay attention to not being diverted from this objective or to interfere with a greater geopolitical situation that may have consequences none of us can predict and which [...]

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Gaza Freedom March Wrap Up

by SR Editor January 2, 2010

By Sana (Keffiyeh And Onions) I’m sure its going to take me some time to process everything that has happened in Cairo with the Gaza Freedom March over the past week or so but here are some of my initial thoughts and feelings. Bear in mind, these are my own opinions and reflections and they [...]

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Egypt Approves Gaza Freedom March Passage, Viva Palestina Blunders Paperwork and Blames Egypt

by Haitham Sabbah December 30, 2009

In a press conference conducted earlier this evening, the Egyptian foreign minister, Ahmed Aboul Gheit announced some threats, warnings, surprises as well as some good news. The press conference that aired on Egyptian official TV a few hours ago was boiling with Aboul Gheit’s very firm and angry answers to the journalists’ questions who did [...]

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Gaza Freedom March Set for Minneapolis on Dec. 30 and for Gaza on Dec. 31

by SR Editor December 27, 2009

By Coleen Rowley (Former FBI Special Agent) | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Gandhi said that the purpose of nonviolent action is to “quicken” the conscience of humankind. Citizens of Minnesota are called upon to stand in solidarity with an expected 1,300 International Peace Activists (including a number of Minnesotans) from over 40 countries marching in [...]

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Egypt allow humanitarian group Viva Palestina to enter Gaza

by Haitham Sabbah December 24, 2009

Press release: Government of Egypt changes policy to allow humanitarian group Viva Palestina to enter Gaza December 27, 2009 Gaza Freedom March congratulates the Government of Egypt on its change of policy to allow international missions into Gaza during December with the decision to allow the Viva Palestina convoy to go into Gaza on December [...]

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BBC: Exclusive News on Viva Palestina Convoy to Gaza

by Haitham Sabbah December 20, 2009

At Last! BBC NEWS coverage of the Viva Palestina Convoy: 13 days into the journey and the BBC has yet to cover the 200+ vehicle Viva Palestina Convoy that is travelling with aid from London to Gaza. With massive media coverage in Greece, Turkey and around the World the UK Media should be ashamed of [...]

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Apartheid government panicking: Time to increase actions

by Mazin Qumsiyeh October 18, 2009

By Mazin Qumsiyeh * On 16 October 1935, a barrel marked “cement” fell as it was being unloaded from ships at the port in Jaffa. The broken barrel contained guns, grenades, and ammunition and was one of many secret shipments to the underground Zionist terrorist militias in Palestine. That incident among others (including the British [...]

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The Grand Hotel Intercontinental cancels the Israeli Tourism Fair

by SR Editor January 14, 2009

Confronted with the indignation expressed by so many people in France and abroad who had heard about the scheduled Israeli Tourism Fair in this great Parisian hotel, the management of this establishment has made the decision to cancel this event, which was supposed to open on January 15. The hotel’s management, as the Paris police [...]

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