Los grandes líderes son inmortales, sus palabras y hechos resuenan a través de años, décadas y siglos. Resuenan a través de océanos y fronteras convirtiéndose en una inspiración que pulsa las vidas de muchos que están deseando aprender. Uno de esos líderes es el extraordinario Martin Luther King Jr. Cuando leo sus palabras, le imagino [...]

Los palestinos llevan la lucha a sus ocupantes en Bab al-Shams Cuando la dirigencia palestina obtuvo el estatus de observador (no miembro) de las Naciones Unidas en noviembre, numerosos escépticos a los dos lados de la línea divisoria cuestionaron qué beneficios prácticos devengarían los palestinos. Los incrédulos todavía no han callado.

Palestinians take the fight to their occupiers in Bab al-Shams When the Palestinian leadership won their upgrade to non-member observer status at the United Nations in November, plenty of sceptics on both sides of the divide questioned what practical benefits would accrue to the Palestinians. The doubters have not been silenced yet.

Native Americans’ resistance to the westward expansion of Europeans took two forms. One was violence. The other was accommodation. Neither worked. Their land was stolen, their communities were decimated, their women and children were gunned down and the environment was ravaged. There was no legal recourse. There was no justice. There never is for the [...]

Después de que por fin cayera el régimen de Gadafi, después de la entrada en la capital, Trípoli, unas pocas voces dispersas se levantaron desde Siria pidiendo que se siga el modelo libio, con la opinión de que tomar las armas y solicitar una intervención militar extranjera es el mejor camino para «hacer caer al [...]

Acting as a Living Tribute to Martin Luther King I didn’t think it was possible, but my admiration for Martin Luther King, Jr., grew even stronger these past days. As I headed to jail as part of the first wave of what is turning into the biggest civil disobedience action in the environmental movement for many years, [...]

Fue un legislador árabe quien hizo el comentario más elocuente cuando la semana pasada el parlamento israelí aprobó la ley anti-boicot que prohíbe todo llamamiento al boicot contra Israel o contra sus asentamientos en los territorios ocupados. Ahmed Tibi preguntó: “¿Qué le está permitido hacer a un activista por la paz o a un palestino [...]

It was a Palestinian legislator who made the most telling comment to the Israeli parliament last week as it passed the boycott law, which outlaws calls to boycott Israel or its settlements in the occupied territories. Ahmed Tibi asked: “What is a peace activist or Palestinian allowed to do to oppose the occupation? Is there [...]

My co-passengers and I of the U.S. Boat to Gaza have now gone from “High-Seas Hippies,” according to the right-wing Washington Times, to participants in a flotilla full of “fools, knaves, hypocrites, bigots, and supporters of terrorism,” says Alan Dershowitz in his usual measured prose. Poor Alan, he seems upset at our audacity not only to [...]

Note by the author: I am a pianist currently enrolled in the doctoral program at the Juilliard School in New York City, though I dedicate a generous amount of my spare time to keeping myself informed of and involved in issues of politics and social justice. I have been one of the regular student contributors [...]