@mikopeled@NoorElashi@theCCR@PACCUSA Noor Elashi relating the inspiration her family draws from her father & “extremely frustrating” experience of being turned away from visiting her father in Kentucky #freehlf5
Before the gov’t shut it down the Holy Land Foundation had been greatly respected for its charity and disaster relief work in the U.S. & abroad
The emotional toll of visiting family members in prison is hard to believe but common in U.S. w/ largest prison population in world
.@mikopeled: there was a real campaign to lobby Pres. Obama for clemency to #FREEHLF5 but he didn’t respond
Here are the 8 policy recommendations laid out in our report on the #UkraineCrisis. #1 is the highest priority: Ukraine-wide Ceasefire now! >
Some people have queried #2 of our recs: "An embargo on arms shipments into Ukraine by all countries." They say Western countries should send "defensive" arms to help #Ukraine. But >
We've just launched "Ukraine: Stop the Carnage, Build the Peace," our new report building on our #UkraineCrisis webinar series & complete with our policy recommendations. Co-sponsored by @codepink@WorldBeyondWar & Environmentalists Against War-
Read here! bit.ly/JWE-UkraineRep…
Our report contains a list of eight Policy Recommendations that grew out of our #UkraineCrisis conversations - though we realize that not all the participants in the webinar series will agree with all of them.
We've made our report "Ukraine: Stop the Carnage, Build the Peace" available as a PDF on our site at no charge: bit.ly/JWE-UkraineRep…
Alternatively, you can buy copies of the printed report from Amazon for $5 each: amzn.to/37Uz7Ko
[Thread] We had a great couple of days on Capitol Hill with Yousef Aljamal, Wednesday and Thursday. We had > 20 very substantive meetings with various folks, including4 Members of Congress. Here was Rep. Ayanna Pressley:
Here was Rep. Betty McCollum (photo courtesy of her office):
What a leader she is! Another photo, courtesy of her office:
This is a truly outstanding study from @CIPonline's @BenFreemanDC & colleagues of how BAD military spending is at creating actual, you know, jobs: lobelog.com/more-money-few… (Thread)
@CIPonline @BenFreemanDC@WorldBeyondWar@WinWithoutWar@AFSCpeace Trump, like many pols before him, likes to trumpet the fact that military spending (by the US people, or via Saudi purchases of US weapons systems) is a big job-creation machine. But...
With the powerful mass movement for democracy & accountability in #Algeria/#Algerie reaching a turning point in next 2 days, 7 diverse Algerian personalities launched this video appeal for unity & real dialog: (Thread) tsa-algerie.com/lappel-de-pers…
Of note (& sad), that the good news site TSA that carried this has been banned in #Algeria. But it is on FB & other platforms so it should get wide distribution? It's issued in the name of "Agreement for the sake of protecting the homeland"
The seven people who signed the Agreement are standing together and take turns reading short sections of it. This one just says: "Appeal to the Algerian people"