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• VOP_Aug24_2010_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps encoding, ~14MB)

This show includes a broadcast of a workshop entitled "From Gaza to Gustafsen", which was part of this year's 20th and final Under The Volcano festival. The workshop featured Gord Hill, a Native writer and activist, Hanna Kawas, cohost of Voice of Palestine and chair of the Canada Palestine Association (CPA), as well as Israeli American DJ Invincible.

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• VOP_Aug17_2010_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps encoding, ~14MB)

News Highlights:

• Israeli authorities demolish a Palestinian Bedouin village for the 4th time after it was rebuilt by residents.
• Israeli human rights groups release pictures of Israeli soldiers posing alongside Palestinian prisoners, some of them dead.
• Mahmoud Abbas is consulting with the U.S. administration over resuming “direct talks” with Israel.
• Activists in Bristol, England called for the boycott of Israeli goods in front of a main supermarket and also commemorated the memory of the 9 passengers killed on the Mavi Marmara by Israeli commandos.

Feature:

August 8th, 2010 marked the 20th and final Under The Volcano, a cultural and political festival that has long given voice to marginalized and indigenous communities. To honor their contribution, we presented a broadcast of one of the workshops at the 19th Under The Volcano, entitled From Gaza to Gustafsen, which detailed the links and similarities between the Palestinian struggle and the struggle of the indigenous people here against settler colonialist aggression. The workshop featured Gord Hill, a Native writer and activist, Hanna Kawas, cohost of Voice of Palestine and chair of Canada Palestine Assoc.(CPA), as well as Israeli American DJ Invincible. The full workshop was recorded by Pasifik.ca and can be listened to at the CPA website www.cpavancouver.org

Focus on Zionism:

Due to the length of the feature, Focus was postponed for this show.

This week includes a special cultural presentation, marking both the second anniversary of the passing of the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and also the 34th commemoration of the fall of Tel Zaatar Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut.

Download an audio file of today's entire show to listen at home on your computer:

• VOP_Aug10_2010_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps encoding, ~14MB)

News Highlights:

• Israeli authorities demolish more Palestinian homes in the Jordan Valley.
• More Muslim graves are destroyed in the Maman Allah cemetery in West Jerusalem by Israeli bulldozers, for the 3rd time in just over a week.
• The weekly anti-wall protest in the Bethlehem area also marks the anniversary of the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• Israel threatens to pull out of the U.N. probe into its deadly raid on the Gaza flotilla if the panel insists on questioning any of its soldiers.

Feature:

A special cultural presentation, marking both the second anniversary of the passing of the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and also the 34th commemoration of the fall of Tel Zaatar Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut. We presented Darwish's famous poem, Ahmad Zaatar, written specifically in dedication to the refugee camp, recited on tape by the poet himself. We also had the English translation, as well as two interpretations of the poem set to music first by Marcel Khalife and then Khalid El-Haber.

Focus on Zionism:

Excerpts of a August 9th, 2010 article about “eco-resistance” in the occupied West Bank, the reality of Palestinian communities there squeezed by settlements and occupation.

News Highlights:

• Israel approves more settlement construction in occupied East Jerusalem.
• The weekly anti-wall protest in Al Masara near Bethlehem also called for national unity and an end to futile negotiations.
• National Council of Churches Australia calls for boycotting goods from Israeli settlements.
• Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Lebanese movement Hezbollah, said they will not stand by if Israel attacks the Lebanese army again; his speech came hours after a clash between the Israeli and Lebanese armies that left 4 Lebanese and one Israeli officer dead, and also marked 4 years since the end of Israel’s 2006 aggression on Lebanon.

Feature:

A special Eyewitness Palestine highlighting what has been termed the slow-motion ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians by the Israeli state. The feature included excerpts of two reports, the first from Human Rights Watch about recent Israeli demolitions of Palestinian Bedouin homes in the Negev, which resulted in the destruction of the whole village of Al Araqib. The second report was from British writer Ben White about his return visit to the Nassar family near Bethlehem, who are living under the threat of demolition orders issued by the Israeli occupation authorities, whilst illegal Israeli outposts expand around them.

Focus on Zionism:

Highlights of an August 2nd, 2010 report about the video footage being shown around the world of a 4-year-old Palestinian boy pleading with Israeli forces to release his dad who was being detained for protecting his farmland.

This show includes a special Eyewitness Palestine highlighting what has been termed the slow-motion ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians by the Israeli state.

Download an audio file of today's entire show to listen at home on your computer:

• VOP_Aug03_2010_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps encoding, ~14MB)