A new phase is developing in the US Palestinian solidarity movement: Block the Boat. In organizing theory, activists often emphasize the importance of formulating what they call an “escalation plan.” ...

Behind the success of the California-based Block the Boat campaign are a multitude of activists, and two exceptional women in particular. One of them is 32, a tiny little woman with long black hair ...

COOS BAY, Ore. — An exercise in boatbuilding is giving a group of Coos Bay seventh-graders a lesson in engineering, design and oceanography. Sunset Middle School received a 5-foot sailboat to assemble ...

"The fact that only 1,000 people have taken to boats since September offers an important window of opportunity to put those plans in place." During the meeting, UNHCR, the International Organization ...