Blog 8
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Alliance Community Meetings:
... Editorial Meeting: Tuesday, January 10
at KBOO, Laughing Horse, or the Alliance
Writers Workshop: Wednesday, January 18
at the Alliance (5926 N. Albina Ave.)
Phone Banking at Sunday, January 22;
Monday , January 23; & Tuesday, January 24.
at the Communications Workers of America
10011 S.E. DIVISION ST., SUITE 302
PORTLAND, OR 97266
Editorial Meeting: Thursday, January 26
at KBOO or Laughing Horse
BBQ and Office Work Party! : Sunday, January 29
at the Alliance (5926 N. Albina Ave.)
Community Board Meeting: Tuesday, January 31
at The June Key Delta Community Center
(5940, North Albina Ave. / Corner of Albina & Ainsworth)
Join us please! There will be food!
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Evil Clowns Research..
Saturday at Beaverton Library...
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http://www.theportlandalliance.org/communitycalendar
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The Portland Alliance: Speaking Truth to power
Joe Hill Day Celebration
A Benefit for The Portland Alliance on November 19 -
The Wordsmith Collection
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Writingresource.info
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Code Pink PDX Fundraiser
ActivismNewsletter: Code Pink Fundraiser at the Peace House!
ActivismNewsletter:
Code Pink Fundraiser at the Peace House!
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Code Pink Fundraiser at the Peace House!
Don't forget the
upcoming
Code Pink Portland
potluck at Peace House
(2116 NE 18th,
corner Tillamook),
this Wednesday,
December 16th at 6:30 PM.
We will also be having a book sale
so please bring any books you would like to contribute.
The proceeds will go to school supplies for Gazan students,
which will be delivered by Oregon State University student
Jessica Campbell in conjunction with
the Gaza Freedom March (www.gazafreedommarch.org.).
We hope to see lots of you there and if you haven't already
RSVP'd and are planning on coming, please let us know.
Just reply to this email: Cristy Murray doglady8@gmail.com
If you have books you would like to donate but cannot attend
the potluck and can't drop them off, please email me and we
will arrange to pick them up.
pdxpeaceevents@lists.riseup.net
Civil Resist Portland civilresistportland@lists.riseup.net
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Every Palestinian has become a prisoner.
"Every Palestinian has become a prisoner. Gaza is surrounded by an electrified fence on three sides: imprisoned like animals, Gazans are unable to move, unable to work, unable to sell their vegetables or fruit, unable to go to school. They are exposed from the air to
Israeli planes and helicopters and are gunned down like turkeys on the ground by tanks and machine guns. Impoverished and starved, Gaza is a human nightmare.
Hope has been eliminated from the Palestinian vocabulary so that only raw defiance remains.
Palestinians must die a slow death so that Israel can have its security, which is just around the corner but cannot be realized because of the special Israeli "insecurity." The whole world must sympathize, while the cries of Palestinian orphans, sick old women, bereaved communities, and tortured prisoners simply go unheard and unrecorded. Doubtless, we will be told, these horrors serve a larger purpose than mere sadistic cruelty. After all, "the two sides" are engaged in a "cycle of violence" that has to be stopped, sometime, somewhere. Once in a while we ought to pause and declare indignantly that there is only one side with an army and a country: the other is a stateless dispossessed population of people without rights or any present way of securing them. The language of suffering and concrete daily life has been either hijacked or so perverted as, in my opinion, to be useless except as pure fiction deployed as a screen for the purpose of more killing and painstaking torture - slowly, fastidiously, inexorably.
That is the truth of what Palestinians suffer."
Edward Said
August, 2002
Friends of Sabeel--North America
www.fosna.org
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