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South Church, 645 Boylston St., Boston “The Apartheid Paradigm in Palestine-Israel: Issues of Justice
and Equality”
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On this week program, a report on Depleted Uranium and it’s
consequences. Featuring Dr. Doug Rokke , director of
the U.S. Army Depleted Uranium Project.
According to the INDEPENDENT’s Patrick Cockburn. Toxic legacy of US
assault on Fallujah/ Iraq is 'worse than Hiroshima'.
The shocking rates of infant
mortality and cancer in Iraqi city raise new questions about
dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the
Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004.
According to the Independent, the study, entitled "Cancer, Infant
Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005-2009", by Dr
Busby, Malak Hamdan and Entesar Ariabi, and concludes that the types
of cancer are "similar to that in the Hiroshima survivors who were
exposed to ionising radiation from the bomb and uranium in the
fallout". Researchers found a 38-fold increase in leukaemia, a
ten-fold increase in female breast cancer and significant increases
in lymphoma and brain tumours in adults. At Hiroshima survivors
showed a 17-fold increase in leukaemia, but in Fallujah Dr Busby
says what is striking is not only the greater prevalence of cancer
but the speed with which it is affecting people.
1-On this week program, we bring you a continuation of our coverage
of the new England anti war conference with panelist Pardiss
Kebriaei, on the topic of “Debunking the war on terror”. Ms. Pardiss
Kebriaei is a Gantanamu attorney from the center for constitutional
rights. She has described the horror of the Gantanamu and Bagram
prisons, and her efforts to bring legal aid and justice to the
prisoners.
Pardiss Kebriaei is introduced by moderator Lisa Savage of code Pink
2-Following up on last weeks footage pf the demonstration in the
village of El-Wa-la-ja in the occupied west bank. We’d like to
report that the Separation Wall, being built by the Israelis will
not just cover one side of the village but rather will surround the
villageof Al-Walaja on all sides. And the
Palestinian non violent protests continue as they have for a long
while now.
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Footage of the village of El-Wa-la-ja
in occupied west bank. We see another chapter of the struggle
against the Israeli military occupation.
During the Israeli Military occupation, which continues today, there
has been varied and consistence non-violent Palestinian resistance
in the form of demonstrations and actions through out the west bank.
Today, we bring you footage of one
such demonstration which took place on Aug 4th, 2010, which
consisted of the following action, to obstruct the destruction of
the village land, they succeeded in stopping the bulldozers for an
hour and a half. The Palestinian led demonstrations was supported as
well by international and Israeli activists. 15 people were
arrested and many were charged and most had to sign a paper to
promise they would not come near the wall again for 60-180 days.
The villagers need support in many
ways especially to demand Israel release those were arrested.
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And Salma abu Ayash speaking at the New England Anti war
conference.
a panelist on the new England anti war conference which took place
Jan 30th 2010 at MIT in Cambridge Massachusetts. The title of the
panel was Debunking the war on terror. Ms. Abu Ayah is introduced by
moderator Lisa Savage of code Pink.
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And part 6 of the Lebanese musical
“Loulou” starring Fairuz . The play is a comedy and a musical co-starring the late
Lebanese singer Nasri Shams Al-dine.
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Dr. Nancy Murray spoke at a forum entitled: Israel/Palestine
South Africa and the USA: making the connection sponsored by
Community Change Inc. in Boston. Dr Nancy Murray, who holds a
BA from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Oxford University, is a
life-long human rights activist. She has been an advocate for the
rights of the Palestinian people for more than two decades, and has
founded and participated in several organizations that seek to
change US policy and promote a just solution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Among her publications are numerous
articles on the conflict and a book, Palestinians: Life Under
Occupation. She has also written a chapter on the post 9/11
profiling of Muslims and Arabs in the award-winning book edited by
Elaine Hagopian, Civil Rights in Peril? The Targeting of Arabs and
Muslims.
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And part 5 of the Lebanese musical
“Loulou” starring Fairuz . The play is a comedy and a musical co-starring the late
Lebanese singer Nasri Shams Al-dine.
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As part of our continuing coverage of the Gaza Siege, today we bring
you part 2, the conclusion, of an eye witness testimony by Ann
Wright who was a passenger on the Challenger 1, one of the six boats
in the Gaza freedom flotilla that was raided by Israeli commandos on
May 31.
The
mission of the flotilla was to bring desperately needed aid to the
besieged Palestinian in Gaza.
During the incident Ms. Wright was detained in Israel and deported
to Turkey.
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And part 4 of the Lebanese musical
“Loulou” starring Fairuz . The play is a comedy and a musical co-starring the late
Lebanese singer Nasri Shams Al-dine.
As
part of our continuing coverage of the Gaza Siege, today we bring
you part 1 of an eye witness testimony by Ann Wright who was
a passenger on the Challenger 1, one of the six boats in the Gaza
freedom flotilla that was raided by Israeli commandos on May 31.
The
mission of the flotilla was to bring desperately needed aid to the
besieged Palestinian in Gaza.
During the incident Ms. Wright was detained in Israel and deported
to Turkey.
Ann Wright, a retired US Army colonel, spent twenty-nine years
in the military and later served as a high-ranking diplomat in the
US State Department. In 2001, she helped oversee the opening of the
US mission in Afghanistan. In 2003, she resigned her post at the
State Department to protest the war in Iraq.
Ms.
Wright shares her experience about the attack at sea as an Eye
witness.
We
beg your indulgence regarding the audio of the footage, which we
have decided to bring you due to the importance and urgency of the
content.
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Last week, we brought you part 2 of the Lebanese musical
“Loulou” starring Fairuz and this week, join us for
part 3. The play is a comedy and a musical co-starring the late
Lebanese singer Nasri Shams Al-dine.
On
this week program: A documentary entitled "Still
in Cairo: The Gaza Freedom March."
Courtesy of Alternate focus.
This Gaza Freedom March, brought over 1,300 internationals to Cairo
for a historic December 31, 2009 attempt to break the Israeli,
Egyptian, and US siege of Gaza. This was one of numerous efforts to
stop the siege all together, and culminated recently with the Gaza
Freedom flotilla tragedy. This cumulative efforts have placed
pressure on Israel to ease the blockage.
Which unfortunately continues to this moment.
2- Last week, we brought you part 1 of the Lebanese musical
“Loulou” starring Fairuz and this week, join us for
part 2. The play is a comedy and a musical co-starring the late
Lebanese singer Nasri Shams Al-dine.
On
this week program: Appearing in Maine, his home state, Scott
Hamann spoke about his personal experience on Challenger 1 (a
ship under the American flag), part of the Freedom Flotilla
that was illegally attacked in international waters on the morning
of May 31st by the Israeli navy. The Freedom Flotilla carried over
10,000 tons of humanitarian relief aid for Gaza, with the goal of
breaking through the blockade imposed on Gaza by the Israeli
government under “collective punishment”, an action illegal under
international law. This event took place on June 11, 2010 at Sacred
Heart/St. Dominic Parish Hall in Portland, Maine And was Sponsored
by The Kennebunk's Peace Department, Peace Action Maine, Maine Peace
and Justice in Israel/Palestine, Portland Pax Christi and Sacred
Heart/St. Dominic Social Justice and Peace Commission.
2- Part one of the Lebanese musical
“Loulou” starring Fairuz . Loulou, is the name of a
Fairuz character. The story is about a young woman
called Loulou, she is acquitted after spending fifteen years in
prison for a charge of killing someone. She tells the people who
lied against her in court that since she already paid 15 years in
prison, for a crime she was wrongly convicted of....
The play is a comedy and musical, most of the songs were composed by
Rahbani brothers ( Assi, Mansour and Elias ). One song is by
Philemon Wehbe, and another song, Natarounah by Fairuz’s Son
Ziad Rahbani.
This play is co-starred by the late Lebanese singer Nasri Shams
Al-dine.
On
this week program, we have a program entitled: “welcome to
Ramallah” produced by Alternate Focus and Moral
Politics. Welcome to Ramallah was
written by Sonja Linden and Adah Kay. It was performed at the
Compass Theater in San Diego in 2008 and then again in 2009. Today’s
program provides clips from the original stage play and segments
from a rehearsal in preparation for the second staging. It includes
interviews with the Director Charlie Riendeau and perspectives from
the actors who performed for both productions, Allison McDonald,
Saiid Zamingir, Haig Koshkarian and Sherri Allen.
On the program: A
coverage of a talk on the siege of Gaza and its continued human,
political and economic consequences one year after Israel’s 22 day
Assault on Gaza. We’ll hear from Nancy Murray and Noam
Chomsky. This event took place on Dec 6, 2010, at the one-year
anniversary of Israel's invasion of The Gaza Strip. For 22 days the
residents of Gaza—half of them children—were subject to a terrifying
assault known to the Israelis as “Operation Cast Lead”. More than
1400 Gazans were killed in the attacks. Numerous illegal targets
were destroyed, including homes, mosques, hospitals, factories and
United Nations facilities. The people of Gaza whose borders are
controlled by land, air and sea were trapped during the onslaught
within one of the most densely populated areas on earth. The
blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip predates the invasion and
continues to this day. Gazans cannot rebuild and they cannot leave.
This talk was Sponsored by Newton Dialogues on Peace and War,
BCPR ( Boston Coalition for Palestinian rights ) , CODEPINK
and Jewish Women for Justice In Israel/Palestine. Originally
scheduled for the Eliot Church in Newton, this public talk had to be
relocated to the Church of the Good Sheppard in Watertown after
complaints and threats from pro-Israel Zionist groups.
On this week we
continue our coverage to the
tragic incidents on the Mavi Marmara ship part of a flotilla
bringing humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza strip. As you might
know, Israel confiscated all cameras and all communication devices
including all security footage. Additionally, the Israeli navy
jammed all communications as the assault was occurring. But, Israel
did not count on the activists having a backup plan. Courageous
filmmaker and activist Lara Lee, one of the few Americans on
the Mavi Marmara ship had her equipment confiscated, but she
managed to smuggle out an hour’s worth of footage.
The program about
freedom
Flotilla humanitarian aid, and an interview with Al Jazeera's
journalist Jamal El-Shay-yal, one of the passengers on the
Mavi Marmara. Unfortunately the siege of Gaza continues. despite
the fact that Israel supposedly withdrew in 2005 yet the Occupation
continues as evidenced by the blockade on the residents of Gaza. The
Israeli Army, the strongest army in the region, one of the most
powerful in the world with nuclear capability against the
Palestinians under occupation and under siege.
the lack of parity
is stunning. Since Jan 2006 when Hamas was democratically elected,
the Israeli government has relentlessly blockaded the Gaza strip, as
1.5M residents, 80% of whom are refugees and descendents of
refugees, are held hostage by extreme economic/medical/energy/food
restraints power outages and complete restriction of mobility. The
blockade is nothing short of collective punishment. The persistent
claim by Israel has been that the strategy for the blockade is to
squeeze out Hamas. When in fact it’s punishing the entire populace
in retaliation for the election of Hamas. Let’s remember that Israel
was one of Hamas’ greatest supporters when it used it to
delegitimize the secular PLO and destroy any chance of a partner for
peace. The blockade became worse after Israel’s military operation
Cast Lead, from Dec 2008 to Jan 2009. when Israel assaulted the Gaza
strip.
According to Amnesty International, “Hamas and other Palestinian
armed groups fired hundreds of rockets into southern Israel, killing
three Israeli civilians, injuring scores and driving thousands from
their homes. However, “the scale
and intensity of the attacks on Gaza were unprecedented. Some 300
children and hundreds of other unarmed civilians who took no part in
the conflict were among the 1,400 Palestinians killed by Israeli
forces. More than 3,000 homes were destroyed and some 20,000
damaged in Israeli attacks which reduced entire neighbourhoods of
Gaza to rubble and left an already dire economic situation in ruins.
Much of the destruction was wanton and could not be justified on
grounds of "military necessity". According to Amnesty International.
Consequently Gaza is in greater need of supplies and
humanitarian aid than ever.
“Early Monday morning May 31st Israeli soldiers stormed the
Gaza-bound international aid convoy called the Freedom Flotilla in
international waters about forty miles off the coast of Gaza. The
six ships had nearly 700 international activists on board and 10,000
tons of humanitarian aid. They were aiming to break the
three-year-long siege of the Gaza Strip. Israeli commandos landed on
the lead ship in the convoy, the Turkish Mavi Marmara, which had
about 600 activists on board. At least ten and as many as nineteen
civilians on board the ship have been reported to have died in the
attack. Israeli troops proceeded to seize the Mavi Marmara and the
five other ships and take them to the port of Ashdod.
On
the program, we’ll remember Howard Zinn, by bring you
coverage of an event entitled: A Celebration of the Life of
Howard Zinn 1922-2010.
Howard Zinn, legendary historian, author and activist, died
early this year at the age of 87. His most famous book is “A
People’s History of the United States.” A book that go beyond what
people have learned in school ... to the voices of ordinary people.
This event took place on March 27 2010 at Marsh Chapel - Boston
University.
Participants:
President Robert Brown - Boston University. Noam Chomsky
-MIT. Irene Gandzier - Boston University. Joseph Gerson
- American Friends Service Committee. Ross Caputi - Boston
University Anti-War Coalition, mong many others
On
this week program: A coverage of an event entitled Arab
American Identity after 9/11: Anthropological and Comedic
Perspectives sponsored by the Evelyn Abdalah Menconi Memorial
Cultural Series and Tufts University’s Departments of Anthropology,
which took place Thursday, April 8, 2010 at Tufts University in
Massachusetts. The event was introduced By moderator Dr. Amahl
bashara and Doctor Elaine Hagopian. The featured speakers
are Anthropologist Nadine Naber, and Comedian Dean
Obeidallah.
Dr. Nadine Naber is an Assistant Professor in the Program in
American Culture and the Department of Women’s Studies and an
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her Ph.D. in
Socio-Cultural Anthropology from the University of California,
Davis. Her research and teaching focus on Arab American Studies,
Women of Color and Transnational Feminisms, Race and Ethnicity, and
Colonialism and Post-Colonial Theory.
Dean Obeidallah is an Arab-American Comedian. He has appeared
on national and international television shows, including Comedy
Central’s “Axis of Evil” special and “The Watch List,” ABC’s “The
View” and “20/20,” PBS’s documentary “Stand Up: Muslim Comics Come
of Age” and “News Hour with Jim Lehrer,” CNN’s “American Morning”
and “Wolf Blitzer’s Report,” and CNN International . He serves as
the Co-Executive Producer of the annual New York Arab-American
Comedy Festival and the Amman Stand Up Comedy Festival.
This week: A coverage of a fund
raising benefit for the MAIA ( Water ) project to provide clean
water to the Children of Gaza, which took place on Sunday April 25th
2010 at the university of Massachusetts. Founded in 1988, the
Middle East Children’s Alliance is a nonprofit organization
working for the rights and well-being of children in Palestine,
Lebanon and Iraq. MECA sends shipments of aid, builds playgrounds
and supports projects that make life better for women and children.
When MECA asked the children in Bureij Refugee Camp in Gaza what
they could do to help them, they responded that what they wanted
more than anything was to have a clean glass of water to drink at
school. Because of the Israeli occupation and the diversion of water
to the settlements in the West Bank and Israel, the water table has
been lowered to such an extent that the water in Gaza is almost
undrinkable and causes disease. Speaking at the event were:
Noam Chomsky - Professor
emeritus of linguistics, Massachusett sInstitute of Technology
Nancy Murray – President, Gaza
Mental Health Foundation
Ziad Abbas - Associate
Director, Middle East Children’s Alliance.
This week: A coverage of a talk
entitled: Voices from Iraq and Afghanistan. The talk was
sponsored by, WCES - Watertown citizens for Environmental safety,
and United for Justice with Peace. The event took place April 18,
2010 at St. John's United Methodist Church in Watertown,
Massachusetts. The guest speakers were: Raed Jarrar and
Maryam Shansab.
Maryam Shansab is an
Afghan-American activist and
PhD student at Tufts Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences.
Raed Jarrar is an Iraqi
architect, blogger, activist, and consultant to the American Friends
Service Committee.
This week: An interview with Rima Merhi, a Fellow at the
Kennedy School of Government Harvard University, on recent Lebanese
Politics, including events at the Nahr el Bared Palestinian Camp as
well as the issues regarding Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon.
Rima Merhi is a researcher, human rights activist, and freelance
journalist with publications in leading newspapers and other media
outlets. She recently conducted research at the Middle East
Institute and the Library of Congress in Washington DC.
Rima has a BA in public
administration and MA in political science (emphasis international
affairs) from the American University of Beirut (AUB), and an MBA
from the Lebanese American University. In July 2005 she testified
before the U.S. Congress on youth aspirations for political,
economic, and social reform in Lebanon. Rima then worked for the UN
to improve the humanitarian situation of Palestinian refugees in
Lebanon and participated in the media and relief committees
organized by the prime minister's office to manage the crisis at
Nahr el Bared Palestinian camp in May 2007. Rima acquired human
rights education and training at Oxford and holds numerous
certificates related to the field of human rights. Rima is currently
enrolled in media and journalism classes. She is interviewed by
Dr. Elaine Hagopian
On
this week program,
an interview with Sarah Roche
Mahdi, coordinator of Code Pink Greater Boston and her
participation in the Gaza Freedom Marches. Sarah Roche Mahdi
is a Cambridge-based writer, scholar, and human rights activist who
spends much time in France. She earned her AB from Smith College,
PhD in Germanic languages from UCLA, and taught at Williams College
and Bard College. Her main scholarly interests include the formation
of a persecuting society in Europe, subversive medieval European
literature, Orientalism, and images of the "Other"—interests she
shared with her late husband, Professor Muhsin S. Mahdi. A long-time
reproductive rights counselor and activist, she has been
increasingly engaged in antiwar actions since 9/11. Currently
coordinator of Code Pink Greater Boston, she has participated in
three Code Pink delegations in the past year--to Gaza (March 2009),
Israel, West Bank and East Jerusalem (June 2009), and to Cairo as
part of the Gaza Freedom March (Dec 27 2009-Jan 5 2010).
On
this week program we’ll bring you coverage of an event sponsored by:
Social Change Society and Students for Justice in the Middle East
at U Mass Dartmouth, entiltled: Empire, Occupation, and
Resistance with Dahr Jamail. Dahr Jamail is an
American journalist who is best known as one of the few un-embedded
journalists to report extensively from Iraq during the 2003
Iraq invasion. He spent eight months in Iraq, between 2003 to 2005,
and presented his stories on his website, entitled Dahr Jamail's
MidEast Dispatches. Jamail writes for the Inter Press Service news
agency, among other outlets. He is the author of: Beyond the Green
Zone: Dispatches from an Un-embedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq.
and The Will to Resist: Soldiers who refuse to fight in Iraq and
Afghanistan both published by Haymarket Books
On the program: A full
coverage of a lecture by world-renowned linguist and political
activist, Noam Chomsky who spoke on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at
Boston University as part of ISRAEL apartheid Week.
Hosted by Boston University Students for Justice In Palestine.
Noam
Chomsky is a prolific author Professor Emeritus at MIT. Among
his many books are Rogue States: The United States, Israel, and the
Palestinians,
Manufacturing Consent, Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in
Democratic Societies, and Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the
Assault on Democracy....
On the program: Featuring
professor Mazin Qumsiyeh,. who appeared at St. John's
Methodist Church in Watertown Massachusetts as part of the
international ISRAEL apartheid Week that took place the first
week of march.
Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh a
well known pacifist, teaches and does research at Bethlehem and
Birzeit Universities in occupied Palestine. He previously served on
the faculties of the University of Tennessee, Duke and Yale
Universities. He served on numerous board and committees of a
number of groups including, the US Campaign to End the Occupation,
Association for One Democratic State in Israel/Palestine.
On
this week program, we focus on The Center for Arabic Culture, a
non-profit organization dedicated to celebrating Arabic language,
culture, art, history, and Arab-American cultural experience.
Dr. Elaine Hagopian
interviews our guests, the President and the Executive Director of
the Center for Arabic Culture in Massachusetts, a non-profit
organization in Boston dedicated to celebrating Arabic language,
culture, art, history, and Arab-American cultural experience. Gheed Amara Itani is one of
the founders and currently the President of the Center for Arabic
Culture in MA. And was a board member of the Arab American
Educational Foundation in Houston, and served in a national advisory
session for the Arab American National Museum in Michigan. Farrah
Haidar is the Executive Director of the Center for Arabic
Culture. Farrah has been involved in the Arab-American community in
various organizations for almost 15 years.
On
this week program we bring you two interviews. One with Maria
Khoury Who will update us on er experience living in the West
Bank. And another with Barbara Whitesides who will tell
us about her latest book "Sugar comes from Arabic: A beginner's
guide to Arabic letters and words".
An
nterview with filmmakers Amal Bishara and Nidal Al-Azraq
discussing their documentary
film ”Degrees of Incarceration”. This is their first film
together, though they are co-authors of the award-winning
story book, The Boy and the Wall.
Director Amahl Bishara is an anthropologist at Tufts University,
who has done research on Palestinian
experiences of spatial confinement, and on the production of U.S.
news about Palestinians
Producer Nidal Al-Azraq is a student and Arabic teacher who has long
been involved with community activism in Aida Refugee Camp.
Interview with Farrah Haidar, and Samer
Balbaky, the discussionfocuses on the significance of
the 2010 census and it’s importance for all communities including
the Arab-American community especially regarding federal funding and
political clout.
Farrah Haidar is the Executive Director of the Center for Arabic
Culture, a non-profit organization in Boston dedicated to
celebrating Arabic language, culture, art, history, and
Arab-American cultural experience, and a Census partner. Farrah has
been involved in the Arab-American community in various
organizations for almost 15 years.
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Samer Balbaky is a Partnership Specialist with the US Census
in Boston. He is primarily responsible for outreach to Arab and Arab
American communities across Massachusetts and surrounding New
England states as well as New York State. Partnership invites the
support of community organizations, including faith based, community
centers, town offices, school districts, businesses and many other
establishments in mobilizing their constituents in support of the
Census Bureau’s goal of achieving a complete count.
A
coverage of the fundraiser to benefit “the fourth Viva Palestina
Gaza Aid Convoys”. That took place on Monday February 1, 2010. At
The Palestinian Cultural Center for Peace in Boston.
The
special guest speaker, Member of British Parliament - Leader of the
Viva Palestina convoys – a Lifelong international activist GEORGE
GALLOWAY .
Viva Palestina has successfully delivered 3 convoys in urgent
humanitarian aid to Palestinians under siege in Gaza. We’ll bring
you this coverage in two parts. Today part 1 to be concluded next
week.
We’re continuing with selected excerpts of “Yearning for peace
with justice. Four women four perspectives”. brought to you
courtesy of Alternate Focus.
We’ll bring you excerpts from Zoe Batarseh and Amal Jubran.
Also, in the program, we’ll pay tribute to the late historian,
writer and activist Howard Zinn, who died Jan 27th, 2010
On
this week program we’re bringing you selected excerpts “Yearning
for peace with justice. Four women four perspectives” brought to
you courtesy of Alternate Focus.
Part
1 with TWO speakerS: Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb and
Ethel Sweed.
“ISRAEL WANTS IRAN WAR” and “Awakening to Israel with Alice
Rothchild” are the main segments of today’s program. Both programs
brought to you courtesy of: Alternate Focus and were co- produced by
Moral Politics.
A talk by Omar Barghouti about “The Global BDS ( Boycott
Divestment & Sanctions.) movement. Omar Barghouti is a Researcher. human
rights activist. And, a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign
for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).
The program brought to you courtesy of Alternate Focus.
An
interview with filmmaker
Jean Marie Offenbacher talking
about her Syria film “Tea on the Axis of Evil”.
Jean Marie Offenbacher graduated from NYU with honors in Philosophy
and Film. Her initial work in film was as an artist, creating 16mm
experimental films. She worked in post-production on three
documentaries, including Ken Burns' Thomas Hart Benton (first
assistant picture editor and sound editor). Her career in
post-production mainly focused on studio feature films, including
Reversal of Fortune with Glenn Close, American Heart with Jeff
Bridges and The Rapture with David Duchovny. From 1994 to 1996, she
worked on various projects for BBC and Prisma Films providing
production management services. She produced and directed her first
feature documentary, Tea on the Axis of Evil, after spending the
larger part of 2004 to 2006 filming throughout Syria. She is
currently shooting a feature documentary in Algeria that explores
the relationship between imposed identity and violence in that
society
presented by:
People of African Descent & Students for Justice in the Middle East.
It took place on
Wednesday Dec 9, 2009, at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
guest
speakers:
Dr As’ad Abukhalil
from California State University
And Mr. Ashanti Alson Speaker, Writer,
Organizer
In
this program,
we’ll bring you Dr. As’ad AbuKhlil presentation. To be concluded
next week with speaker Ashanti Alson and the Question and Answer
period.
Views of Bethlehem: Then and Now - An exhibition of historical
images and contemporary photographs with our guests:
- Dr. Jeffery Spurr, Islamic and Middle East Specialist and
former archivist at Harvard’s Fine Arts Library
- Dr. Abdulfattah Abusrour resident of the Aida Palestinian
Refugee camp in Bethlehem and director of the photography program at
the AL-Rowwad cultural center.
- John Roberts, of the Cambridge/Bethlehem People-to-People
Project
The historic footage Courtesy of:
The Fine Arts Library, Harvard College Library
Related links:
http://alrowwad.virtualactivism.net/
Noam Chomsky on " the
war on Gaza" which will be the focus on today's program in light
of the recent Goldtosone report. The report accused Israel of
war crimes and crimes against humanity. It also accused the Hamas
movement of war crime violations, but reserved most of its criticism
for Israel.
Prof Chomsky's lecture took place on Jan 13, 2009 @MIT in Cambridge
Massachusetts during the time of the war on Gaza.
World-renowned
intellectual Noam Chomsky has been a professor of linguistics at the
Massachusetts Institute of technology
On September 26, 2009,
the University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth honored the eminent
Palestinian-American Scholar, Dr. Naseer Aruri. Dr. Aruriserved on the Political Science Faculty of the University for
decades.
He retired from the University several years ago.
Recently, he contributed his papers, publications, and book
collections to
the University’s Carney Library to be deposited in their research
archives.
Among his many papers from his long professional and activist
careers were those from his term on the Board of Directors of
Amnesty International. It was on the occasion of the dedication of
his life’s work that the University organized the celebration of
this esteemed scholar.
Dr. Aruri is no stranger to Arabic Hour audiences. He is also
nationally and internationally recognized as a respected public
intellectual. Arabic Hour is happy to present the University
program honoring Dr. Aruri.
Today’s guests are Tom Arabia and Khury Petersen Smith, two
young activists from the Boston Area who recently returned from
Gaza, part of the Viva Palestina-USA convoy members to reach
Gaza on July 15, 2009.
Chris Hedges, a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and a foreign
correspondent for nearly two decades in Latin America, Africa, the
Middle East and the Balkans, writes and speaks extensively on war,
religion and the conflict in the Middle East.
Hedges was a member of The New York Times team that won the 2002
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper's coverage of
global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty International
Global Award for Human Rights Journalism.
He is the author of:
best seller “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning”, a book that
draws on the many conflicts he covered to explore what war does to
societies and individuals.
his New York Times bestseller “American Fascists: The Christian
Right and the War on America”.
His most recent work on the subject is titled “I Don't Believe in
Atheists”.
Recently, Chris Hedges delivered the 2009 Tom Cassidy Lecture at
Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
Today, We bring you the conclusion including the question and answer
period.
Chris Hedges, a graduate
of Harvard Divinity School and a foreign correspondent for nearly
two decades in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the
Balkans, writes and speaks extensively on war, religion and the
conflict in the Middle East.
Hedges was a member
of The New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for
Explanatory Reporting for the paper's coverage of global terrorism,
and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for
Human Rights Journalism.
He is the author of:
- Best seller “War
Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning”, a book that draws on the many
conflicts he covered to explore what war does to societies and
individuals.
- His New York Times
bestseller “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on
America”.
- His most
recent work on the subject is titled “I Don't Believe in Atheists”.
Recently, Chris
Hedges delivered the 2009 Tom Cassidy Lecture at Bowdoin College in
Brunswick, Maine.
Hedges' lecture was
entitled "Covering War and Conflict as a Foreign Correspondent,"
Today, We bring you
part 1 of this lecture, and the conclusion including the question
and answerperiod next week.
ON this week’s Program:
we’ll bring you a speech by George Galloway, a British Member of
Parliament
and founder of the Viva Palestina aid convoy to break the siege of
Gaza.
this program, was brought to you courtesy of alternate focus.
(www.alternatefocus.org)
On this week's Show:
we’ll bring you two programs courtesy of Alternate Focus:
1-“Reverand Don Wagner on Christian Zionism”
2-“Life in Occupied Palestine, a Jewish-American speaks out”.
The title refers to a 10 day time frame, in October of 2006,
six weeks after the Israeli war on Lebanon when a delegation of
Americans including Arab American leaders, congressional staffers,
clerics and journalists visited Lebanon, particularly South Lebanon,
to assess the destruction in the aftermath of the war.
The director, Jocelyn
Ajami, had no affiliation with any of the members of the delegation.
This program
gives a basic framework of the aftermath of the 34-day war including
interviews with major Lebanese officials contrasted to the facts on
the ground and to the
destruction of South Beirut and Southern Lebanon.
The documentary will also ask fundamental questions regarding the
effects of war, in particular the legacy of cluster bombs on
civilians.
On this week's program,
we bring you the documentary “WOUNDS OF THE HEART: AN ARTIST AND
HER NATION” a film by John Halaka presented courtesy of
Alternate focus. (www.alternatefocus.org).
The film features Palestinian visual Artist Rana Bishara
whose work includes sculpture, installation and performance art.
Rana’s artwork functions both as an elegy to the Palestinian Nakba
(the catastrophe of 1948), and as an unmasking of the brutality of
the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
The war on
Gaza and it’s aftermath will be the focus of this program.
1- the conclusion of last week’s interview with Jeff Klein of
Dorchester People for Peace and a long time human rights
activist.
Mr. Klein just returned from Gaza where he was one of the US members
of Viva Palestina, a humanitarian aid convoy whose purpose is
to break the relentless siege of Gaza.
2- the moving story of Dr. Izzeldine Abuleish.
Dr. Abuleish has been nominated for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. And
he continues his struggle for peace and coexistence even in the face
of tragedy.
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On 5/31/2010: Israeli forces storm Gaza aid ship
--- At least 10 people have been killed after
Israeli commandos stormed a convoy of ships
carrying aid to the Gaza Strip. It happened
about 40 miles (64 km) out to sea, in
international waters.
We will rebroadcast a coverage of the fundraiser
to benefit “the fourth Viva Palestina Gaza Aid
Convoys”. That took place on Monday February 1,
2010. At The Palestinian Cultural Center for
Peace in Boston. The special guest
speaker, Member of British Parliament - Leader
of the Viva Palestina convoys – a Lifelong
international activist GEORGE GALLOWA
One State for Palestine / Israel: A Country for All Its Citizens
That was held On March 28 and 29,
2009 on the campus of the University of Massachusetts
Independent
-- UK
What is Israel afraid of? Using the old "enclosed military area"
excuse to prevent coverage of its occupation of Palestinian land
has been going on for years. But the last time Israel played
this game – in Jenin in 2000 – it was a disaster. ...more
Highlight from previous programs
Sabeel Conference
“The Apartheid Paradigm in Palestine/Israel: Issues of Justice and
Equality”
Speakers: Archbishop
Desmond Tutu, Noam Chomsky, Dr. Naim Ateek, Imam Mahdi Bray, Dr.
Sara Roy, Leila Farsakh, John Dugard, Jeff Halper, Anat Biletzki,
Farid Esack, David Wildman, and Noura Erekat...
Click for full coverage
October 26 – 27, 2007
Old South Church, 645 Boylston St., Boston
Jeff Klein
Izzeldine Abuleish
