Hey Friends,

I've been meaning to let you know something for quite a while - while this blog has gone quite, the blogging don't stop.  In fact, it's increased.   I've been updating every week, usually on Sundays! (Wow, go me!)  I've being using blogger (the interface for somethings I'd like to do is just so much easier.)  So you can check it out at ( Read more... )

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep."

-- translated by John Moyne and Coleman Barks

Hello! A couple of quick links for you ( Read more... )

Therapy, Bethlehem-Style: http://inpalestine.blogspot.com/2006/09/therapy-bethlehem-style-frankly-this.html

(Did you know that Bethlehem literally means "house of meat" ?)

I'm alive and well and back home.  Here's a shout-out especially relevent to folks who might be in the PDX/Vancouver area.

First, this Friday, Sept. 1st at 6:00 pm I'll speaking on the Bread and Roses show on KBOO Radio!  In Portland and Vancouver, you can listen at 90.7 FM, or any where the world over, you can listen online at www.kboo.fm  Pretty ( Read more... )

There are no words for how I feel leaving Palestine for the second
time.  I don't have the vocabulary to describe the way my heart is
broken apart by a need to stay here - to sit on the land, to hold the
hands my friends, to climb into an olive tree, to refuse to move - and
a desire to escape the madness of this occupation.  I don't want to
keep looking ( Read more... )

Call Out for Stories of Palestinian Nonviolent Resistance ( Read more... )

So, here's my report on World Pride 2006, which focuses mainly on the boycott efforts.  I'd love to hear what other people think, especially if there are any pieces of information needed to help people who don't know the geography or the situation follow the article better.  Cheers!

Proud of What?: My Journey to Jerusalem World Pride

I've never ( Read more... )

Thunk

My friends Hani and Muniera live in a home that has become their prison.  With the help of Palestinian, Israeli, and international peace activists, they refused to leave when the army told them their house would be demolished to make way for the path of the wall.  Now, the wall surrounds them on all four side of their house.  When I last ( Read more... )

"I want to smile"

My friend Hussam has a lovely smile.  And here in Palestine it is always getting him into trouble.

Yesterday I ran into Hussam in a taxi.  I asked him what he had been up to.  "Last night I came back to Bethlehem through the Container Checkpoint.  And for the first time, the soldiers didn't stop me," Hussam told me.  "Why ( Read more... )