WHEN I SEE THEM I SEE US…

Campaigns, Events
A must watch film of an excellent Campaign. When I see Them I See Us... Back Ground: Black-Palestinian solidarity is neither a guarantee nor a requirement - it is a choice. We choose to build with one another in a shoulder to shoulder struggle against state-sanctioned violence. A violence that is manifest in the speed of bullets and batons and tear gas that pierce our bodies. One that is latent in the edifice of law and concrete that work together to, physically and figuratively, cage us. We choose to join one another in resistance not because our struggles are the same but because we each struggle against the formidable forces of structural racism and the carceral and lethal technologies deployed to maintain them. This video intends to interrupt that process…
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Mairead Maguire Talks About Her Experience In The 2015 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN WALK FOR PEACE AND REUNIFICATION OF KOREA – DELEGATION VISITS NORTH/SOUTH KOREA ON MAY, 19th – 25th 2015

Events, Press Releases
The year 2013 marked the 60th anniversary of the Armistice Agreement that ended the Korean War. The temporary ceasefire has never been replaced with a Peace Treaty and the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) continues to divide the country. The DMZ with its barbed wire, armed soldiers on both sides, and littered with thousands of explosive landmines, is the most militarized border in the world. Seventy years ago, as the Cold War was brewing, the United States unilaterally drew the line across the 38th parallel – with the former Soviet Union’s agreement – dividing an ancient country that had just suffered 35 years of Japanese colonial occupation. Koreans had no desire to be divided, or decision-making power to stop their country from being divided; now seven decades later the conflict on the…
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Women peace activists cross North-South Korea border

Campaigns, Events
They did it the group of 30 women peace activists including Mairead Maguire and Ann Patterson from the Peace People cross the heavily militarised DMZ by bus after being denied by authorities to walk across the border Watch the video & see the pictures below which highlighted this wonderful event. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/embed/EeYV-sVY_jA[/embed] [caption id="attachment_787" align="alignnone" width="169"] Mairead Maguire Peace People[/caption] [caption id="attachment_796" align="alignnone" width="300"] Women Peace Activists Cross North-South Korea Border [/caption]
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