St. Paul, Minnesota 6 July 2001
The following e-mail was sent out on 6 July 2001 to several Red Hot Chili Peppers mailing lists, and posted on several bulletin boards relating to the band. The best way to raise an issue outside of the usual audience remains… raising the issue outside the usual audience. Read more about Dear Red Hot Chili Peppers fans...
Amman, Jordan 10 July 2001
I am writing to express my deepest opposition to the United States continued support for and participation in Israeli attacks against Palestinian civilians in the occupied territories. Read more about Open letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell
Shatila, Lebanon 13 July 2001
Abu Ismail is sitting on a sofa as he speaks. The tape recorder sits on a low table in front of him, absorbing his voice, and the noise of mopeds and people from the alley outside. He is in his mid-sixties, but looks perhaps a little older. Read more about Back to Shatila
Annapolis 13 July 2001
Your children are hungry, irritable, and smelly. You try to calm them, singing them songs while heating up some left-over coffee and listening to news reports on a battery powered radio that promise your difficult life is only going to get worse. Read more about Imagine Suburbia Under Siege
19 July 2001
The Palestinian people have made it quite clear that they will resist the occupation until it ends completely, and they are learning more about the occupier’s vulnerabilities every day. Even Sharon will have to stop and think before he does anything more foolish than he has so far. Read more about Sharon's deadly calculus
Chicago, Illinois 8 August 2001
The question remains, though, what it would take for those countries that crow loudest about human rights to be up to the challenge of holding Israel and its leaders accountable. Read more about Israel's campaign of death continues unabated
St. Paul, Minnesota 6 September 2001
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres underlined that Israel was pulling out of the conference because of “anti-Israel and anti-Semitic comments,” adding that the conference was “a farce.” And yet one more opportunity to make Israel accountable for the hell on earth it creates daily for Palestinians under its military occupation was neatly side-stepped. Read more about Highly improbable plot situations, exaggerated characters, and slapstick elements
6 September 2001
A few days ago I received an email declaring that McDonald’s Corporation, the US fast food giant, would be donating money to Israel to fight against the Palestinians. Read more about Hamburger Hoax-- Don't swallow the claim that McDonald's is sending money to Israel
Victoria, Canada 12 September 2001
What has happened is so horrible I cannot find the words to express my reactions. I don’t have a television, so it was not until this morning when the Toronto Globe and Mail landed on our front porch that I saw the images—the huge buildings now gone, the body parts in the streets, the people with faces of absolute fear and shock. Read more about Letter from Canada
Chicago, Illinois 12 September 2001
It is extremely hard to write this morning, and yet I feel I have to. Everything hurts so much. After a few hours sleep, I woke up in the dark, hoping and praying that I had woken up from a nightmare. The nightmare is still there. Read more about A Few Words