Who We Are: The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the long-entrenched and systematic oppression and dispossession of the Palestinian population, using non-violent, direct-action methods and principles. Founded in August 2001, ISM aims to support and strengthen the Palestinian popular resistance by being immediately alongside Palestinians in olive groves, on school [&hellip
Monday, October 8 6:30 pm Buena Vista United Methodist Church 2311 Buena Vista Avenue Alameda, CA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/150743759204820/ International Solidarity Movement, NorCal, in partnership with Buena Vista United Methodist Church invite community organizations and people of faith to join Dr. Nabila Espanioly and Jafar Farah, on Monday Oct 8 – quite appropriately on Indigenous People’s [&hellip
ISM-NorCal will have a table at the Palestine Cultural Day in Foster City, marking 40 years of celebrating culture and building bridges. Join us and visit our booth with Palestinian olive oil, soap and more, or choose from jewelry and kuffiyehs, books, stickers and flags to support the work of the International Solidarity Movement in [&hellip
The following interview with Katie Miranda, ISM organizer, artist and jewelry designer, is reprinted from My Olive Roots, where it was originally featured. Interview by Maha Huneidi: Katie Miranda (KM) is a multifaceted artist/activist living in Portland, Oregon where she has a jewelry and apparel business: www.katiemiranda.com, and does cartoons for Mondoweiss and the Middle [&hellip
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