It has been roughly a month since concerned citizens of the world have been gathering on Twitter every day at 3pm EST/7 pm GMT/ 9pm Palestine time, (ed. March 11: please check this website for updates about timing!) to tweet for the cause of Palestinian prisoners in administrative detention. These trending actions are initiated and maintained by activists of the...
Thanks to supporters from around the world, the song ‘HUNGRY’ which is dedicated to Samer Issawi and the other Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli incarceration has been rising in the HipHop Charts on Soundclick. If you click on the image, a larger version of it will appear, and you will see that it is a screenshot of the charts,...
Every day, activists gather on Twitter attempting to get a new hashtag for Samer Issawi and the other Palestinian hunger strikers to trend on the world trending list. Until now, this has only been marginally successful*. When compared to previous tweeting sprees such as those undertaken for Khader Adnan, we have a long way to go. (editorial note Feb 11:...
The past week has been an amazing week for Twitter activism for the Palestinian cause. In fact, the achievements could be described as historic. For 6 days in a row, hashtags related to Khader Adnan’s hunger strike managed to make it to the world trending list 7 times in total. The success of these online demonstrations must be attributed mostly...
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