Posted on September 19, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
i’ve been reading various articles and blog posts about the anniversary of the massacre of the palestinian refugee camp shatila and the surrounding neighborhood of sabra (no, sabra is not a refugee camp, but many palestinians live there). pulse media and falasteenyia both had nice posts on the subject. ma’an news posted a reflective [...]
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Posted on September 13, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
there will be a demonstration in trablus in a couple of days to protest the fact that michel aoun has halted the reconstruction of the nahr el bared refugee camp. the reconstruction committee of nahr el bared refugee camp has a new blog where they are documenting the situation on the ground. and you can [...]
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Posted on September 13, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
three great new stories on palestinian rappers and how hip hop culture is used as a mode of resistance:
first: from a dear friend in bourj al barajneh refugee camp in lebanon. yassin and mohammed are originally from akka and are rapping until and for their right of return:
then ayman mohyeldin is [...]
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Posted on September 6, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
the last couple of weeks i was writing a review of rosemary sayigh’s brilliant and important book, the palestinians: from peasants to revolutionaries, which is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand palestine, palestinian refugees, palestinian resistance, and, of course, the right of return. i was re-reading the book and i was struck by [...]
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Posted on August 24, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
so just as i left beit lahem the city was preparing for a major fatah conference. the first signs of this were all of the black fatah suvs driving around the city like maniacs. i drove by ma’an news on my way home one night and a ton of them were out front. it turns [...]
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Posted on August 24, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
my dear friend rami and i have started a new blog to catalog the ongoing nakbas that happen every day in palestine, lebanon, syria as the result of a zionist land grab. here is what rami wrote about it on his other blog:
A few days ago, Marcy sent me a link to a post by [...]
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Posted on July 12, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
holding an american passport, having the privilege of white skin, and living in palestine means that one needs to be conscious of these privileges and also use them strategically to support palestinians. the summer camp last week was one example of using my white privilege to help palestinian refugees learn about their villages and use [...]
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Posted on June 25, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
those of us active in the struggle for the right of return for palestinian refugees and justice for palestinians in general are well acquainted with article 49 of the geneva convention, which reads:
Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or [...]
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Posted on June 23, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
this afternoon my friends wanted to take a walk. we went to cremsian, a church with a vineyard in beit jala. we went for a walk here once before, but it was late at night and so i couldn’t see as much as we could see today. this church is in the middle of a [...]
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Posted on June 20, 2009 by marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان
today is world refugee day. there are 42 million refugees world-wide. there are also 7.6 million palestinian refugees, who are not included in the numbers that the united nations high commission for refugees (unhcr) uses because palestinian refugees fall under the united nations relief and works agency (unrwa) which means something different in terms of [...]
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