The Electronic Intifada

A team of Canada-based physicians has paired up with four major hospitals in the Gaza Strip to install solar panels and provide reliable energy 24 hours a day to emergency rooms, intensive care units and operating theaters. Dr. Tarek Loubani talks about the EmpowerGAZA project. More here: http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-solar-panels-gaza-hospitals-aim-ease-healthca...

Students at Marquette University in Wisconsin are organizing against a recent attempt to silence Palestine solidarity activism and the watering-down of a divestment resolution. More here: http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/wisconsin-student-government-censors-criticism-firms-abetting-israels (Photo from MU Divest campaign)

Approximately 130 members of faculty at NYU have joined a growing campaign to urge the university to divest from companies profiting from Israel's crimes. (Photo: NYU Students for Justice in Palestine members march in New York, from NYU-SJP Facebook page)

Durham County had joined the boycott of South African goods during the 1980s apartheid era, and current campaigners were able to "use that as precedent for them taking action on [private security firm] G4S." (Photo from Jewish Voice for Peace, part of the Durham Drop G4S campaign in North Carolina)

Filmmakers Malek Rasamny and Matt Peterson have begun producing short documentary films about the common struggles between Palestinian refugees and First Nations communities on reservations across the North American continent. In this interview, Rasamny told The Electronic Intifada that it's important to link the struggles together because of the "general historical similarities between the Palest...