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Jessica Azulay is a co-founder of PeoplesNetWorks and an editor at The NewStandard. A writer, activist, and educator from West Virginia, she has been an organizer in the anti-war and anti-capitalist globalization movements for almost a decade. Over the past several years, she has researched and written about political issues on three continents, including struggles in Appalachia, Nicaragua, Southern Mexico, and Israel/Palestine. Jessica has also been actively opposing and writing about anti-Muslim and anti-Arab oppression in the US since 9-11. Her work has appeared in several publications internationally, and she is a regular commentator for ZNet. To view her collection of articles and essays about Palestine and Israel (Retaliatory Strikes), which can be viewed on the web at http://tools4change.org/retaliatorystrikes
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