KINGDOM OF OLIVES AND ASHWriters Confront the Occupation Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman 448 pp. HarperCollins. $16.99. From 1992 to 2014, writers Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon were hesitant to get involved in the question of Israel/Palestine. “We didn’t want to write or even think, in any kind of sustained way, about Israel and Palestine, about […]
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For Americans who can’t imagine the occupation — Waldman and Chabon’s collection might do the trick
September 26th, 2017 Awake Goy
Families Of Death Squad Victims Allowed To Sue Chiquita Executives
June 4th, 2016 Awake Goy
(Photo by UggBoy UggGirl/Wikimedia/CC) In what supporters described as “a victory for accountability for corporate crimes,” a U.S. judge ruled in favor of allowing Colombians to sue former Chiquita Brand International executives for the company’s funding of a paramilitary group that murdered plaintiffs’ family members. Chiquita poured $1.7 million between 1997 […]