Palestinians on tour in USA representing THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION FOR PALESTINE
Host: Basima Farhat
Previously Aired On: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 – Listen to the Show!
MIRA DABIT is a Palestinian youth activist and folkloric storyteller, who lived and worked in north and south Ireland after receiving her BA in psychology and sociology from Birzeit University. She has returned to the West Bank where she is organizing theater projects for youth, along with other initiatives that strive to make marginalized voices heard.
Hanna Qassis was born in Jerusalem in 1983 and is from the town of Birzeit, Palestine. He graduated from Birzeit University in 2006 with a BA in Business Administration, and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in International Studies, also at Birzeit University.
In addition to working for the Academy for Educational Development in the West Bank, Hanna is a political and youth activist and volunteers with several Palestinian civil society organizations.
The speakers will talk about their inspiring struggle for education and for a just and democratic society. “The Right for an Education” tour, sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace, will take place from March 28 to April 27 in cities and campuses across the country.
From East Jerusalem, Mira Dabit, an activist with the Right to Education campaign and an alumna of Birzeit University (Ramallah), will anchor the tour. She will be joined by Hanna Qassis. They will share with American audiences their experiences living and struggling to educate themselves under Israeli occupation, where many of their human rights –including the right to education–are denied. “The checkpoints, the wall, arbitrary arrests make something as simple as going to school a near impossibility for many Palestinians in the West Bank. The situation in Gaza is even worse – they can’t go abroad, they can’t come to the West Bank, and their universities are repeatedly bombed,” said Ms. Dabit. “We are coming to the United States to call on the academic communities here to support us in our resistance to these policies with grassroots, non-violent tactics, such as boycotts, divestment and sanctions.”
The tour, organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, will visit New York, Boston, Ithaca, Washington DC, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Seattle San Francisco Bay Area, Albuquerque, Tucson, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego and Los Angeles
Please visit:
www.WeDivest.org
and
www.JewishVoiceForPeace.org
www.wedivest.org for detailed schedule).
April 1st, 2011
--Previous Guests--, Hanna Qassis, Mira Dabit |
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Author/Filmmaker – Kevin returns for an update about the international tribunal into allegations of decades of abuse and mass graves of Native children in Canada.
Host: Jeannette LaFeve
Previously Aired On: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 -Listen to the Show!
Kevin Annett (Eagle Strong Voice) is a community minister, author and award-winning film maker who lives and works with low income and aboriginal people in Vancouver, Canada. For nearly two decades, he has led the campaign to expose and bring to trial the churches and governments responsible for Genocide and other crimes against humanity across North America.
Kevin is the co-founder of The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS), which has summoned Pope Joseph Ratzinger and others to appear before its opening session in September in London. Kevin is a consultant to many indigenous and human rights groups around the world and is in constant demand as a public lecturer.
His websites are:
www.hiddennolonger.com
www.hiddenfromhistory.org
His email is: hiddenfromhistory@yahoo.ca
See the evidence of Genocide in Canada at www.hiddennolonger.com
Watch Kevin’s award-winning documentary film UNREPENTANT on his website www.hiddenfromhistory.org
“We will bring to light the hidden works of darkness and drive falsity to the bottomless pit. For all doctrines founded in fraud or nursed by fear shall be confounded by Truth.”
- Kevin’s ancestor Peter Annett, writing in The Free Inquirer, October 17, 1761, just before being imprisoned by the English crown for “blasphemous libel”
“I gave Kevin Annett his Indian name, Eagle Strong Voice, in 2004 when I adopted him into our Anishinabe Nation. He carries that name proudly because he is doing the job he was sent to do, to tell his people of their wrongs. He speaks strongly and with truth. He speaks for our stolen and murdered children. I ask everyone to listen to him and welcome him.”
Chief Louis Daniels – Whispers Wind
Elder, Turtle Clan, Anishinabe Nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba
April 1st, 2011
--Previous Guests--, Kevin Annett |
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Host of Antiwar Radio
Host: Basima Farhat
Previously Aired On: Tuesday, April 5, 2011 – Listen to the Show!
Scott Horton is the host of Antiwar Radio for KAOS Radio 95.9 FM in Austin, Texas, KUCR 88.3 FM in Riverside, California and Antiwar.com, where he is also assistant editor. Horton conducts interviews with journalists, politicians, pundits, lawyers and experts on foreign policy and war-time law. Guests have included Eric Margolis, Ron Paul, Ray McGovern, Daniel Ellsberg, Russel Means, Harry Browne, John Cusack, Pat Buchanan, Noam Chomsky, Lew Rockwell, Patrick Cockburn, James Bamford, Sibel Edmonds, Glenn Greenwald, pseudonymous Matthew Alexander, Andrew Bacevich, Robert A. Pape, and near weekly appearances by Gareth Porter.
Horton won the Austin Chronicle’s “Best of Austin” award “Best Iraq War Insight and Play by Play” for Antiwar Radio in 2007.
Horton hosted six shows in Austin, Texas, including Say it Ain’t So on controversial micro broadcast station Free Radio Austin which was followed by The Way Sh*t Is, The Best I Can Tell, the Philip Dru Interviews, the Weekend Interview Show and KAOS Report. He also hosts a weekly broadcast for Pacifica Radio’s KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles
In 2004, Horton served as foreign policy adviser to Libertarian Party presidential candidate Michael Badnarik.
Please visit:
http://Antiwar.com
April 1st, 2011
--Previous Guests--, Scott Horton |
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