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Rosemarie Esber moderated a distinguished panel for a lively discussion on the state of Palestine activism in the U.S. at a June 12 ADC presentation. Nadia Hijab, executive director of [...]

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's April 14 visit to President George Bush at the White House sparked a press conference called by the Muslim America Society Freedom Foundation (MAS), and [...]

Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, held its second annual international convention at Hunter College in New York City over the weekend of April 16 to 18, 2004. Activist [...]

A reception room at the Jordanian Embassy in Washington, DC was transformed into a hushed and darkened theater March 8, as a packed house journeyed through time and space to [...]

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) hosted Palestinian doctor Jumana Odeh and Israeli doctor Zeev Wiener at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) on March 11, to discuss the incidence [...]

The Islamic Coalition Seeking Universal Justice and Peace for All People (ICSUJAP) sponsored a memorial for murdered peace activist Rachel Corrie at Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC March 13--just three [...]

As many advocates for Palestinian justice are aware, U.S. activists to the left of center have failed to really push the issue to the forefront of the peace movement. Literally [...]

Mourners packed the Palestine Center in Washington, DC on Saturday, Nov. 1 to remember Edward Said on what would have been his 68th birthday. Fellow academics from various fields, institutions [...]

Early in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Oct. 28, President George W. Bush decided to host a fast-breaking iftar dinner at the White House, as his predecessor, Bill [...]

The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown University hosted an Oct. 7 screening of a documentary film trailer about Baghdad today. Five current or former Georgetown students--Sinan Antoon, [...]

Amidst a storm of controversy, including Zionist attacks and internal disagreements, New Jersey Solidarity (NJS) hosted the Third North American Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM) in New Brunswick, [...]

Activists gathered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and around the reflecting pool on the national mall in Washington, DC, on Saturday, Aug. 23, to commemorate the 40th anniversary [...]

International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) hosted a Sept. 3 panel discussion and press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, to consider the [...]

The District of Columbia Anti-War Network, (DAWN) marked the second anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon with a vigil for peace at Dupont Circle [...]

On the weekend of July 19 to 22, Gallaudet University in Washington, DC was the site of an organizers' meeting for a new campaign aimed at ending the Israeli occupation [...]

On May 31, the United for Peace and Justice coalition (UFPJ) hosted a National Teach-in at the National City Christian Church in Washington, DC. As some conference-goers browsed through books [...]

Following his remarks Secretary Powell quickly left the banquet, and former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader, an Arab American and longtime consumer advocate, entered. There was no appeal from [...]

ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) anti-war organizers met in New York City the weekend of May 17 and 18 to discuss lessons learned in the past [...]

With just a couple of weeks to organize, ANSWER'S Saturday, March 15 demonstration at the Washington Monument was not as big as some previous ones, but it still drew a [...]

On March 4 at the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine (CPAP), activist John Stein-bach of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Committee and the Grey Panthers, among other organizations, said there is [...]

At a March 1 demonstration and prayer vigil in front of the Department of State, members of an interfaith coalition of religious leaders announced plans to travel to Baghdad to [...]

In conjunction with a 'week of resistance' which culminated in massive anti-war demonstrations around the world (see pp. 38-40), International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) sponsored [...]

Ambassador David Satterfield garnered quite a different response during a MESA plenary session on American policy and prospects for Middle East peace. Appearing instead of Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern [...]

A packed house portended a successful art show/musical fund-raiser for Arab Youth Organizing (AYO), a branch of San Francisco's Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) on May 30 at The [...]

Representing a segment of American society that has felt the brunt of racism and learned the lessons of political action, Black Voices for Peace issued a call for 'at least [...]

Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark was the keynote speaker at a Sept. 4 press conference held by ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) at the National [...]

Black Voices for Peace held a community forum at Howard University Law School in Washington, DC on Sept 9, to both commemorate the victims of terrorism, and to reflect on [...]

A Saturday afternoon, Aug. 31 ISNA panel examined Muslim civil rights post 9/11--one of many panel discussions on this vital topic. After an introduction stressing that the concepts of justice [...]

Moderator Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai of the Kashmiri American Council opened the Saturday, Aug. 31 ISNA session on peace and justice in Kashmir by citing Sen. Joseph Lieberman (DCT), who [...]

A statesman without a state, well-known Palestinian activist Dr. Haidar Abdel Shafi addressed an overflow house at the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine Aug. 5. As a physician and [...]

Longtime human rights advocate Bianca Jagger addressed the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine July 16, 2002, regarding her experiences in Palestine and Israel as part of the United Nations [...]

Palestinian peace activists, George Rishmawi and George Qassis, both of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People and, more recently, of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), launched a nationwide drive [...]

Over 600 activists from around the country came to New York for a June 1 organizational conference held by International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism). As [...]

The main message Chibli Mullat--as the primary lawyer in the war crimes snit against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for the 1982 massacre of Lebanon's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps--wanted [...]

Since Sept. 11, Dr. Sami Al-Arian has come under attack, as the University of South Florida (USF) tried to fire the tenured professor, allegedy for neglecting to specifically state that [...]

Scholars from all over the U.S. and from as far away as Lebanon, Spain, and Germany came to Washington, DC for a conference at Georgetown University April 26 and 27 [...]

Black Voices for Peace (BVFP) and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) threw a demonstration on April 5 and everybody came. Protests in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC [...]

Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies and Ambassador Edward Peck, vice president of Foreign Service International, addressed the question of whether or not the U.S. could be an [...]

Afghans4Tomorrow, Young Afghan Professionals for the Reconstruction and Development of Afghanistan, hosted a Jan. 6 seminar at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. A4T is an impressive group of young [...]

The International Republican Institute, a nonprofit organization with the stated purpose of advancing democracy worldwide, hosted at its Washington, DC offices on Dec. 6 British Member of Parliament Michael Anscram, [...]

Black Voices for Peace (BVFP), formed by longtime anti-apartheid activist Damu Smith as a forum for African Americans to vocalize their concerns following the national crisis of the 9/11 attacks, [...]

As the U.S. started a bombing campaign against the Taliban and Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, many Americans began a quest for a better understanding of the Afghani region, its [...]

The dire conditions of Palestinian refugees still in camps after more than half a century were the concern of United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) Commissioner General Peter Hansen's Sept. [...]

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported the following errors.