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Prisoners, Refugees, Gandhi's and Free Radicals

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The prison swap between Israel and Hamas began on Tuesday with the freeing of Sergeant First Class Gilad Shalit.

Israel is to begin freeing over 1,000 potential Palestinian Gandhi's that have been locked up for resisting the occupation of their homeland.

 Addameer is Arabic for Conscience. Addameer Prisoners' Support and Human Rights Association reported in June 2011, that the total number of political prisoners was 5554 and 211 are children.


Gandhi pointed out three possible responses to oppression and injustice. The coward's way out, which is to accept the wrong and run away, or to stand and fight by force of arms, but the third and best way is to fight by speaking truth and remaining physically nonviolent.

 

The Palestinian Gandhi Project is a joint "labor of love" of two women, who I am blessed to know as friends and sisters in the good fight for justice and peace who are grounded in compassion and outraged over the brutal truth.

 

I met journalist and marketing communications consultant, Pam Bailey in June 2009, when I was "embedded' with a Code Pink delegation who had been invited to Gaza to build playgrounds and witness the facts on the ground, post Cast Lead.

 

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Eileen Fleming,is a Citizen of CONSCIENCE for US House of Representatives 2012 Founder of WeAreWideAwake.org Staff Member of Salem-news.com, A Feature Correspondent for Arabisto.com Producer "30 Minutes with Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu" (more...)
 
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