4-14-2015 Against the Occupation: Ten Years of Grassroots Resistance | Truthout | L. Michael Hage

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In the US, Dr. Martin Luther King showed that nonviolent protest works. His Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 inspired passage of the Voting Rights Act that year, a landmark for US civil rights. In Palestine, Iyad Burnat, head of both the Bilin Popular Committee against the Wall and the Friends of Freedom and Justice in Bilin, has followed Dr. King's example.

Bilin is a village of 2,000 residents, some 12 kilometers from the West Bank city of Ramallah. Since 2005, Iyad and his fellow villagers have organized weekly demonstrations to protest repeated Israeli assaults on village assets, in particular the building of a wall that separates farmers from their lands; the destruction of olive trees; the placing of a settlement less than 100 meters from the village boundary; and harmful travel restrictions - all in the name of protecting Israeli citizens.

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