Chicago-area friends – please consider coming out to this noontime rally / press conference on Chicago’s spacious (social-distancing-ready) Federal Plaza on October 7, the nineteenth anniversary of the start of the U.S.’ never-ending and disastrousContinue reading
Category: Palestine
Reversal – Kathy Kelly
August 6, 2020 With survival at stake, can weapon makers change course? Today, the seventy-fifth anniversary of the atomic attack on Hiroshima, should be a day for quiet introspection. I recall a summer morning followingContinue reading
The Ongoing Dread in Gaza: So Many Names, So Many Lives
by Kathy KellyJuly 23, 2019 “I felt shaky and uneasy all day, preparing for this talk” – Jehad Abusalim, a Palestinian from the territory of Gaza Jehad Abusalim, a Palestinian now living in the UnitedContinue reading
July 18 Educational Forum: Lifting the Siege: Why Gaza Matters to Us
Before our noon Friday protest outside Boeing and before Saturday’s Gaza Freedom Flotilla on the Chicago River, join us 7pm Thursday July 18 for an educational event on Gaza as we begin three days ofContinue reading
July 19 Boeing Protest: Chicago4Gaza: Stop the Bombs, End the Blockade
Following Thursday’s 7pm panel with Jehad Abusalim and Ret. Col. Ann Wright, and leading into Saturday’s Gaza Freedom Flotilla on the Chicago River, on Friday July 19 we will gather at the Israeli consulate andContinue reading
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Wed Jun 12 FREE TRIP TO EGYPT screenings
Voices for Creative Nonviolence is happy to help promote simultaneous screenings of the documentary FREE TRIP TO EGYPT to occur in 500 theaters nationwide at 6:30pm Central Time this Wednesday, June 12th. The film followsContinue reading
July 20 Flotilla: Gaza Freedom Flotilla on the Chicago River
After a Thursday forum with Jehad Abusalim and Ret. Col. Ann Wright, and a noon Friday protest outside Boeing, on Saturday July 20 Voices for Creative Nonviolence will join with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s USContinue reading
Freedom Flotilla Missions Will Continue ‘Until Palestine Is Free’
September 14, 2018 The bold journey of the 2018 Freedom Flotilla Coalition dared Palestinians and the world to dream of peace, dignity and freedom for all. Now, we must keep working to build a cultureContinue reading
Beit Ummar and South Hebron Hills – Carolyn Coe
Above: Reem and Della watch the funeral procession. July 14, 2018 from Beit Ummar, Palestine Two days before the funeral of a man killed by the IDF, Reem, 17, can’t sleep. She anticipates the upcomingContinue reading