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This installment of the logbook is dedicated to getting to know the captains who come from far away and are with us on the flotilla. Karina is from Brazil, from the São Paulo region. She has a 17-year-old daughter, is…

The sea opens paths that the powerful tried to close. From Barcelona sets sail the Global Sumud Flotilla, a flotilla of persistence, of constancy, of resistance. Half a hundred boats that do not carry bombs but food and medicine, that…

A new report from our collaborators aboard the boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla, currently in Sicily awaiting departure for Gaza. No beatings yesterday for the members of the Global Sumud Flotilla. We carried out a simulation of direct nonviolent…

While the Sumud Aid Floatilla (50 boats, 44 nations) is preparing itself to take route to Gaza, the Western mainstream media stay in total silence about its existance. Their silence speak for itself, as they are ordered not to make…

Lucio, Manfredo and Stefano are on the boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla and will recount their adventure for Pressenza. This is their first logbook. Fair winds from the entire editorial team. A tsunami of humanity is about to unleash…

Yesterday was an exciting day in Genoa, with a huge celebration that began in the afternoon at the Music for Peace headquarters, one of the collection points for the 300 tons of aid brought by the Genoese and arriving from…

Many people, both Jewish and non-Jewish, blame Israel for violating Jewish ethics. More erudite critics quote the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud and even codes of Jewish law to prove their point. This is a mistake. David Ben-Gurion, who directed the…

Yuli Novak, executive director of B’Tselem, the Israeli non-governmental organization recently cited by many newspapers for the publication of the report “Our Genocide,” wrote: “Genocide does not happen without mass participation, a population that supports it, allows it, or looks…

The future never manifests itself at the center first. The future manifests itself at the margins first. Otto Scharmer. Do the strike and the demonstration on August 17 in Israel give a sign of hope for transformation in the consciousness…

Israelis settlers in the West Bank, consume up to 10 times more water than Palestinians. This isn’t simply about scarcity, it’s about control. And for Palestinian farming families, it means every day is a struggle to hold onto their land, their crops, and their…