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No wonder Israel’s One Million Voices event failed: ‘moderate’ politics assumes equality between occupier and occupied. by Ben White, Friday October 19 2007 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/oct/19/themoderateblindfold We’ve had Live 8 and Live Earth, and this week, albeit on a smaller scale, we almost had One Million Voices. Organised by the OneVoice group, the declared aim was to…

Press Release, PACBI, 4 October 2007 http://www.pacbi.org/press_releases_more.php?id=612_0_4_0_M On October 18th, One Million Voices, an organization led by Israelis and international figures with the support of some Palestinians, is organizing a public event in Jericho and Tel Aviv, simultaneously. The event will include performances by renowned artists Brian Adams and Ilham Madfa’i. As stated on the…

Declaration, Bilbao Initiative, 4 November 2008 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9934.shtmlThe following declaration was issued on 31 October 2008 following a gathering of Palestinian, progressive Israeli and international organizations and social movements in Bilbao, Spain: For the past 60 years, the indigenous Palestinian people has been scattered in the Diaspora and fragmented within its homeland by walls and policies…

http://www.bdsmovement.net The broad consensus among Palestinian civil society about the need for a broad and sustained Campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) resulted in the Palestinian Call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel that was launched in July 2005 with the initial endorsement of over 170 Palestinian organizations. The signatories to this call…

22 November 2007Al-Bireh, Ramallahhttp://www.alternativenews.org/news/english/first-palestinian-conference-for-the-boycott-of-israel-bds-20071128.html “The Campaign for the Boycott of Israel will re-vitalize popular resistance and restore dignity to the Palestinian people To read the Declaration of Principles, click here.  An important mile-stone in building the global BDS campaign was achieved in Ramallah on 22 November 2007. Some 300 activists, members of unions, associations and…

by Adri Nieuwhof, Psychologist & Human Rights Activist, June 25th, 2006 http://www.stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/1205.shtml Early May 2005 Stop the Wall Campaign published an article on its website entitled ‘Challenging Tramways of Apartheid – Swiss activists block Connex shuttle run’. The article evoked the memories of campaigns to isolate apartheid South Africa. Research Connex is owned by the…