Archive for March 30, 2010

IBDAA- To Make Something Out of Nothing Image by Jos Sances, http://www.josart.net/ From  Wikipedia with additions: The Ibdaa Cultural Center is a grassroots community-based project in the West Bank‘s Palestinian Dheisheh refugee camp. The name, “Ibdaa,” (ابداع) is translated from Arabic as “creation” or “creative ability” – “To Make Something Out of Nothing.” Since being…

http://www.shovrimshtika.org/index_e.asp Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers that collects testimonies of soldiers who served in the Occupied Territories during the Second Intifadah. Soldiers who serve in the Territories are witness to, and participate in military actions which change them immensely. Cases of abuse towards Palestinians, looting, and destruction of property have…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31315139@N03/?saved=1 Born in Gaza City in 1971, Plastic artist and free lance photographer Basel is a painter, photographer and video artist. He attended in 2000, 2001 and 2003 the summer Academy of Arts of Darat al Funun-Khalid Shoman Foundation in Jordan, run by Syrian-German artist Marwan Qassab-Bashi; and completed an arts course at the Gaza…

The Hip Hop Crew DAM at a show at Baladna Association for Arab Youth, in Haifa, Israel. DAM http://www.dampalestine.com/ http://www.myspace.com/damrap Da Arabian MC’s Suhell Nafar, Tamer Nafar, Mahmoud Jreri DAM is the first and leading Palestinian Rap Group. It is composed of Tamer Nafar, 27, his younger brother Suhell, 23, and Mahmoud Jreri, 24. The…

Asia Aamer is the daughter of Hani and Munira Aamer.  The Aamers are surrounded by the Occupation Wall or Apartheid Wall on four sides.  Break the Silence Mural Project, Anarchists Against the Wall, Black Laundry, Flowers Against the Occupation and the Women’s Peace Service worked with the Aamer family and painted this mural.  Asia is…

The Ramallah based Mojat Fan (ArtWAVE) project, undertaken by a group of Palestinan artists from all over historic Palestine, celebrated a successful first workshop series and exhibition this week. A group of twenty emerging Palestinian artists gathered to forge connections, create collective work, and experiment with art as a context and form for communication across…

Artist from Rafah, Gaza Strip.  Member of Palestine Artists’ Union, Rafah Branch.

http://www.awalls.org/ History and Articles: anarwall Booklet_EN About AATW Who We Are Anarchists Against the Wall (AATW) is a direct action group that was established in 2003 in response to the construction of the wall Israel is building on Palestinian land in the Occupied West Bank. The group works in cooperation with Palestinians in a joint…

Photo by Mats Svensson http://www.swedishwire.com/opinion/4719-israel-is-guilty-of-colonialism-and-apartheid The Swedish Wire Opinion – Published Thursday, 27 May 2010 06:15 | Author: Mats Svensson ‘Israel is guilty of colonialism and apartheid’ OPINION – “The similarities between apartheid in South Africa and today’s politics in Israel are many”, Mats Svensson, former Swedish diplomat in Jerusalem, writes. Highlights: • “Often my…

Ibrahim Burnat of Bethlehem, Palestine Detail of installation What you view in the clouds are the clouds To find yourself in the view of some pigeons I hold still over my homeland.

http://www.gcmhp.net/ OUR VISION A Palestinian society that respects human rights and in which people live in dignity, free of oppression, and feel that their well- being is promoted.   OUR MISSION To develop GCMHP as knowledge- based institution to enhance the capacity of the community in dealing with mental health problems based on the principles…

Eman Mohammed is an award winning photojournalist and TED fellow, currently based in Washington DC. Eman is a Palestinian refugee, born in Saudi Arabia and educated in Gaza City, Palestine where she started her photojournalism career at the age of 19. For the past decade, her work had been focused on documenting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,…

http://www.machsomwatch.org/en MachsomWatch, in existence since 2001, is an organisation of peace activist Israeli women against the Israeli Occupation of the territories and the systematic repression of the Palestinian nation. We call for Palestinian freedom of movement within their own territory and for an end to the Occupation that destroys Palestinian society and inflicts grievous harm…

www.newprofile.org http://coalitionofwomen.org/home/english/organizations/new_profile http://www.shministim.com/ Right Side of Leaf Image: Drawing: “Born Soldier”  by Itzik Rennert. Left Side of Leaf Image: Photograph: “Towards Tomorrow” by A. Ettinger. New Profile is a young and visible organization, the outgrowth of our belief that there is a need to question the deep-seated influence of militarism on Israeli society. The movement,…

www.onestate-embassy.net/ This is the Website of OneState Embassy in Vienna Ambassadors Osama Zatar and Tal Adler have appointed themselves as first Ambassadors of OneState in June 2009, in the lack of any other diplomatic services at that time. OneState Embassy in Vienna became the first Embassy to represent OneState globally. Extremely positive reactions in Palestine…

“Magav in Weimar” Israeli border police parked in front of the German national theatre and the statue of Goethe and Schiller.  January 2008 http://ronen.dvarim.com/ Art and Activism in Israel: An Interview with Ronen Eidelman http://inicios.es/2008/10/28/art-and-activism-in-israel-an-interview-with-ronen-eidelman/ P.M.: Your blog’s name is Medinat Weimar, which is also a project you’ve been working on for a long time…

Bil’in is a Palestinian village that is struggling to exist. It is fighting to safeguard its land, its olive trees, its resources… its liberty. http://www.bilin-village.org/english/ “Bil’in Habibti” is a documentary by Shai Pollack that documents Bi’lin’s nonviolent struggle against the Israeli occupation and the building of the wall which has cost the village much land,…