Why We Refuse » 2009

Want to know more about Netta?

August 23rd, 2009 — 10:10 pm

Netta was born and raised in Tel Aviv. At the age of fifteen, she started to take an active part in the demonstrations against the wall in the West Bank. The brutal violence she witnessed there radicalized her. At the age of sixteen, she was an organizer for an alternative education project that politically empowered youth and exposed them to radical ways of activism. It was in this project where the idea of the 2008 Shministim letter was born, with two other future members of the Shministim 2008, Sahar Vardi and Raz Bar David-Varon. Continue reading »

Want to know more about Maya?

August 22nd, 2009 — 10:06 pm

Maya Yechieli Wind, 19, grew up in Jerusalem during the second Intifada, where she was raised in a secular home but educated in religious schools. Her first experience with conflict resolution was at age fifteen in “Face to Face” – a dialogue group for Israeli and Palestinian youth. Continue reading »

Maya Wind: Please help your government understand

August 22nd, 2009 — 02:21 am

“I know that the US is financing some of Israel’s actions in the Occupied Territories. I also know that many Americans believe that they are helping establish security in Israel. But this is not true, for real security will not be achieved by military means. Please help your government understand that by supplying weapons it is not helping the Israelis or the Palestinians. I would like to ask you to support those that are seeking peace for both Palestinian and Israelis.

–Maya Yechieli Wind

Hear her full testimony.

The Spectrum of Disobedience: Howard Zinn on Refusal

August 21st, 2009 — 05:00 pm

September 2009 By Gabriel Matthew Schivone

This is a continuation of a discussion with Howard Zinn on activist education; the first part, “A Joyful Insurgency”, was published in the July-August 2009 issue of Z Magazine. Continue reading »