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RADIO INTIFADA
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Thursday, May 13, 2010, 2:00-3pm PDT
Palestine, 1948/Mexico 1848
Dispossession, Apartheid and Grass Roots
Activism
May 15th 1948, the day that Israel declared independence, marks the Nakbah for the Palestinian people - the catastrophe in which 90% of the indigenous Palestinians were driven out of their homes and villages. Today, these refugees and their descendants number 5 million, many of whom still live in refugee camps in the Middle East. Not counted in those numbers are those who remained in what became Israel and their descendants, the “internally displaced,” who today are organizing against their dispossession and the system of apartheid under which they live.
One hundred years earlier, in 1848, the people of Mexico faced a similar catastrophe following the US invasion of Mexico, when 42% of its land was forcibly ceded – what today is the southwestern US, including California and Arizona. Today, the people from that land and from throughout Central America are also facing a system of apartheid here in the US and are also organizing against their treatment.
In commemoration of al-Nakbah, Radio Intifada will focus on the dispossession of the Palestinians, the parallel experience of these two peoples, and the grass roots activism in which they are engaged. Featuring:
Nur Marsalha is a Palestinian historian and academic from the Galilee. Currently based in London, he is a Professor of Religion and Politics and Director of the Centre for Religion and History and the Holy Land Research Project at St Mary's University College. He is a widely published author on the Palestinian refugee problem, and has presented some of the most compelling work in English on the internal refugees - the so-called internally displaced.
Mark Gonzales, “the son of one who worked the fields.” is one of the most engaging voices of a generation. Poet, educator, and founder of the Human Writes Project, he has appeared widely on US media and has cultivated projects in Cuba, Palestine, Jordan, Qatar, Portugal, Spain, the U.A.E, and across the United States. He “hums in the name of all indigenous people,” and is on the Advisory Board of the US Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (www.usacbi.org).
+ Naazneen Diwan from "We Are All Arizona" on the effects of 1070 on the greater immigrant communities,and how the L.A. community can get involved.
Produced by Sherna Berger Gluck and hosted by Gluck and Lucy Der-Tawitian
SWANA (South and West Asia and Northern Africa) Collective
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