7/3/08, 3PM Radio Intifada: Israels 60th - The Times They are "A Changin"?

Dedicated to the memory of Don White -

advocate of justice for Palestinians, among others

RADIO INTIFADA

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Voices from Kolkata to Casablanca

Voices of struggle, Voices for change

Thursday, July 3, 2008 3-4pm PDT

KPFK/Pacifica Radio 90.7 fm, Los Angeles

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The Times They Are ‘A Changin’ – Or are they?

This year, as Israel celebrated its 60^thbirthday, something unusual happened. It didn’t gain the kind of steam or garner the publicity for which it had expended so much money. Instead, for the first time in 60 years, “nakba” entered the lexicon – in the mainstream medium. Not yet as a parallel narrative, to be sure, but . . . the times they are ‘a changin’.

And while Barack Obama shamelessly pandered to AIPAC last month, an increasing number of Jewish peace and justice activists are questioning their long held support of the Zionist state and are joining the call for a one-state solution. . . the times they are ‘a changin’.

And recently the cease fire that HAMAS has been offering Israel for two years was finally successfully negotiated and seems to be “working.” The times they are ‘a changin’. Or are they?

This week, Radio Intifada will explore both the positive signs of change and analyze what is myth/illusion and what is reality with guests:

Naseer Aruri, Chancellor Professor (Emeritus) of political science, U of Massachusets, Dartmouth, former chair of the board of Trans-Arabk (with the late Samih Farsoun) is Palestine and the Palestinians:A Social and Political History (Westview Press, 2007)
Nora Barrows-Friedman, senior producer and co-host of Flashpoints on KPFA/Pacifica in Berkeley, and a correspondent with Inter Press Service and the Electronic Intifada.net.
Marcy Winograd, co-founder of Jews for Peace and co-founder and former president of Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles, who is now an outspoken advocate for a one state solution.
- and we will have a brief conversation with Attorney Pat J. Barry about the contracts that the City of LA might have negotiated with the Israeli government and Israeli companies on the recent junket made by Mayor Villarigosa.

Produced and hosted by Sherna Gluck (with participation of Hagit Borer in Winograd interview), SWANA (South and West Asia and North Africa) Collective of KPFK

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