Check out the articles in the new June 2018 issue of “Live from Palestine,” the ISM-NorCal newsletter, or download the PDF copy to save or print. Online Special: ISM tour comes at potential turning point for Palestine by Joe Catron The biggest question from the ISM speaking tour: Why? by Katie Miranda The Spectacular North America ISM [&hellip
By Joe Catron, April 2018 This year’s International Solidarity Movement tour, which brought ISM coordinators and volunteers to speak at over two dozen sites across Canada and the United States, came at a crucial moment in the struggle to liberate Palestine. Fresh on the heels of an Israeli occupation court’s sentencing of seventeen-year-old Palestinian activist [&hellip
By Katie Miranda, April 2018 The first week of April, I had the honor of being a part of the North American International Solidarity Movement speaking tour. The idea for this tour came as a result of a meeting between various ISM support groups worldwide and people working on the ground with ISM in Palestine. [&hellip
ISM volunteers are getting in to Palestine. The other NGOs are honest about their intentions, and Israel turns them away. We lie about our intentions and we get in. Sorry, but that’s what we have to do. But our supply of money and volunteers is very low because people are beginning to forget who [&hellip
By Billy, April 2018 Since Syria took down the Israeli fighter jet in early February, the F16s have been circling more frequently overhead. Their droning sounds distinct as they drop light flares and play war games in the sky. I get lost looking up, forget where I am, retrace my steps and find myself on [&hellip
By the International Solidarity Movement March 18, 2018 Palestinian and international activists successfully planted dozens of olive saplings in the village of Burin near Nablus, located in the northern West Bank. Palestinians and internationals together laid pictures of prominent activists in front of the planted saplings; some of these activists were killed by the Israeli [&hellip
By Paul Larudee, April 2018 Live from Palestine, the newsletter of the International Solidarity Movement support group in Northern California, has been publishing reports from ISM volunteers for fifteen years now, but only twice before to our knowledge has the ISM experience been expanded into a book. This one is very special indeed. Richard Hardigan [&hellip
Date: Sunday May 27 2018 Time: 10:00 AM-4:00 PM Place: Grassroots House, 2022 Blake St, Berkeley CA (near downtown Berkeley BART station) Come out to help support Palestinian grassroots organizing resistance! We’ll be packaging the ISM Norcal newsletter’s latest edition, hot off the presses, for shipping to thousands of supporters across the country. We’ll also [&hellip
ISM-NorCal is the major sponsor and organizer of the ISM Spring Tour, which is bringing four long-term ISM coordinators and activists to cities across North America for two months. The Tour issued the following statement after the Israeli attack on the Great March of Return in Gaza, Palestine on March 30: Today in Gaza, as [&hellip
Are you ready to take your activism for Palestine to the next level? In 2002, the International Solidarity Movement grabbed world attention by bringing volunteers from around the world to defend Palestine through nonviolent resistance. They stayed with resistance fighters in the Nativity Church in Bethlehem. They brought medical supplies to the besieged Palestinians in the ancient [&hellip