RADIO INTIFADA
intifada=shaking off - oppression/silence
Voices from Kolkata to Casablanca
Voices of struggle, Voices for change
Thursday, September 11, 2008 3-4pm PDT
KPFK/Pacifica Radio 90.7 FM, Los Angeles
streaming at kpfk.org and available on audio archive for 90 days
9-11 SPECIAL
Commemorating the 1982 Sabra and Shatila
Massacre
For people in the US, September 11th has become an iconic marker of a tragedy in this country - referred to only as 9-11 – when several thousand people were killed.
The day September 11th is also a marker of political crimes and massacres elsewhere in the world. On that day, in 1973, the CIA backed coup deposed Salvador Allende, the democratically president of Chile, ultimately resulting in the death of thousands of Chileans.
And on that day in 1982, following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the international forces that guaranteed the safety of Palestinian refugees left, opening the way for the massacre of several thousand Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
This week’s Radio Intifada is dedicated to that horrific massacre – another moment in the ongoing Palestinian nakba – and to all victims and survivors of war crimes.
We will be exploring the politics and history of the massacre and the psychological impact of catastrophes like this, and be talking about the phenomenal art installation, “Return of the Soul,” which both depicts the nakba and empowers its survivors.
Guests:
Mahmood Ibrahim, Middle East historian and chair, Department of History, California Polytechnic University, Pomona
Jess Ghannam, Psychiatrist and Chief of Medical Psychology, UCSF Medical School, former president of SF ADC, and member Coordinating Committee of Al-Awda (Right of Return)
Jane Frere, Scottish theater director, designer and artist, whose installation, “Return of the Soul,” just closed at the Edinburgh Arts Festival and is opening in Beirut, Lebanon.
Co-produced and co-hosted by Lucy Der-Tawitian and Sherna Berger Gluck, SWANA (South and West Asia and North Africa) Collective of KPFK
