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RADIO INTIFADA

intifada=shaking off - oppression/silence

Voices from Kolkata to Casablanca

Voices of struggle, Voices for change

Thursday, August 21, 2008 3-4pm PDT

streaming at kpfk.org and available on audio archive for 90 days


Visions of the Future for Palestine

Dedicated to the memory of Mahmoud Darwish

This week’s Radio Intifada will feature the poetry of Palestinian Poet Laureate, Mahmoud Darwish, and will explore the vision of one country/one state in Israel-Palestine.

After a personal conversation with Michel Shehadeh on the meaning/impact of Darwish’s poetry for Palestinians in the diaspora, we will talk with Ali Abunimah about the logic of the one state solution, and then turn to Yoav Bar, one of the organizers of the historic tri-lingual (Arabic, Hebrew, English) conference held in Haifa this summer on the right of return/1state solution.

Michel Shehadeh, Executive Director of the Arab Film Festival, is a longtime activist and cultural worker. A former LA8 defendant, he served as the Western Regional Director of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.

Ali Abunimah is the author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse. He is a fellow of the Palestine Center in Washington DC and co-founder of The Electronic Intifada.

Yoav Bar is a member of the Palestinian movement Abnaa elBalad and one of the organizers of The Haifa Conference for the Right of Return and for the Secular Democratic State in Palestine

and poetry recitation by Egyptian American actor, Nasser Faris

Produced and hosted by Sherna Gluck, SWANA (South and West Asia and North Africa) Collective,KPFK

EVENTS COMMEMORATING/CELEBRATING MAHMOUD DARWISH

GO TO FREEGAZA.ORG for update on action to break the siege of GAZA and help assure the safety of the activists

 

Saturday, 8/30. 2pm

Celebration of the Life and Works of Palestinian Poet and Hero, Mahmoud

Darwish, 1941 – 2008

Glendale Public Library Auditorium, 222 E. Harvard St., Glendale 2nd Floor -

Violin piece by Dr. Nabil Azzam, Comments by historian Dr. Mahmood Ibrahim and

many more speakers. Sponsored by Palestine Aid Society, 323-666-1953 for

program information

Program will be in English

Sunday, 8/31 – 4pm

Commemorating the life of the Palestinian Poet Mahmoud DarwishHoliday Inn

Select Hotel, 14299 Firestone Boulevard, La Mirada, CA 90638 -

Hosted by the Arab-American Community of Southern California

Program will be in Arabic