Across the media landscape government cuts to longstanding NGOs has created major debate and discussion particularly on the Conservative government’s focus on slashing funding towards groups outspoken towards Israeli military policies towards the Palestinian people living under military occupation in the West Bank and under blockade in Gaza. Conservative minister Jason Kenney has been particularly outspoken in regards to the funding cuts, explicitly outlining that the government cut funding towards KAIROS due to the organizations defense for Palestinian human rights.
As critical voices towards Israel’s apartheid policies towards the Palestinian people grow across Canada and globally the Conservative government has moved in the past years to attempt to stifle democratic discussion on Canada’s policy positions towards Israel/Palestine and to criminalize the growing movement of boycott, divestment and sanctions in opposition to Israeli apartheid modeled after the global solidarity movements against apartheid in South Africa which played a key role in bringing down the racist apartheid regime in South Africa 20 years ago.
This program was produced by CKUT for February 12, 2010.
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Lia Tarachansky is a journalist with the Real News Network, currently based in Israel/Palestine. She has reported for many grassroots independent media outlets over the years such as the Domion, Znet, and Rabble.ca. She recently helped to launch The Daily Nuisance, an online news portal for independent media from Israel/Palestine, which went online in early January. Aaron Lakoff speaks with Lia via Skype at her home in Jaffa. She talks about the mission of The Daily Nuisance, the potential for independent media in Israel/Palestine, and other news stories she has been covering.
This program was produced by CKUT for January 5, 2010.
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http://www.thedailynuisance.com
http://therealnews.com
Lia Tarachansky is a journalist with the Real News Network, currently based in Israel/Palestine. She has reported for many grassroots independent media outlets over the years such as the Domion, Znet, and Rabble.ca. She currently helped to launch The Daily Nuisance, an online news portal for independent media from Israel/Palestine, which went online in early January.
Here she tells us about the mission of The Daily Nuisance, the potential for independent media in Israel/Palestine, and other news stories she has been covering.
This program was produced for CKUT Radio for January 5, 2010.
For more information, visit:
http://ckut.ca
http://thedailynuisance.com
http://therealnews.com
http://sevendeadlymyths.webs.com
Rafeef Ziadah is a third-generation Palestinian refugee, community organizer, and one of the most captivating spoken word artists currently working in Toronto. She recently released a CD of her works, “Hadeel”, which also features music from other notable Toronto musicians such as LAL and Reena Katz. Ziadah speaks about her album, “Hadeel” and the socio-political themes which drive her poetry, such as migration, war, and of course, the return to Palestine. This interview is interspersed with some of the pieces from “Hadeel”, such as “Montreal Subway” and “Trail of Tears”.
This program was produced for CKUT Radio for December 22, 2009.
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http://rafeefziadah.ca
http://bdsmovement.net
A brief interview with Ben White, commentator on Palestine who recently published: “Israeli Apartheid: a Beginner’s Guide”. He discusses the similarities and differences with the South African and the Palestinian apartheid. He also discusses the motivations behind his book.
This program was produced for CKUT Radio for October 22, 2009.
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http://benwhite.org.uk
In late June, 2009, 200 people marched in a boisterous contingent in the Toronto Pride parade under the banner Queers Against Israeli Apartheid. A few years prior, radical Israeli queer folks with the group Black Laundry made waves when they marched with a banner exclaiming “No Pride in the Occupation!”, refusing to be complicit as the second intifada was breaking out. And now, Q-Team and other allied groups are gearing up for a similar intervention in the Montreal pride parade on August 16th.
This program was produced by Under The Olive Tree for August 10, 2009.
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http://aaron.resist.ca
http://www.queersagainstapartheid.org
http://www.aswatgroup.org/english
Interview with Palestinian poet Suheir Hammad, where she discusses the art of performing and how art can transform a human being’s opinion and can change behavior. She also discusses cultural identity and the election of Barack Obama.
This program was produced for CKUT Radio for June 22, 2009.
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CKUT: Interview with Steven Salaita, “Contemporary Colonial Realities: Native America and Palestine”
Steven Salaita is a professor of English at Virginia Tech University and author of The Uncultured Wars: Arabs, Muslims and the Poverty of Liberal Thought. CKUT’s Stefan Christoff interviews Salaita who addresses the colonial history in North America and in Palestine, while also addressing the Obama administration in regards to the Middle East and global neo-liberal economic policies.
This program was produced for CKUT Radio for June 2, 2009.
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Former IDF soldier and founder of Breaking the Silence, Yahuda Shaul, speaks to Joe Broadhurst of CKUT about the occupation of Palestine and the mindset of Israeli soldiers in their control of Palestinians.
This program was produced by CKUT Radio for November 3, 2006.
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http://shovrimshtika.org (Breaking the Silence website)
This documentary recorded and produced by Seth Porcello in July of 2006 (just prior to the war on Lebanon) features audio of the people in the village of Majdal Shams shouting across the minefield (1967 ceasefire line) that separates them from their relatives in Syria. This very tangible sound of a border, and occupation, serves as a point from which to tell this story. As one hears the Safhia family, who very graciously allowed the recording their conversation, one hears without interpretation what it is to go on living and coping with the reality of never being able to reunite with one’s family. Through their bullhorns they give voice to the border through the silence of the minefield. Through a documentation of this border, the reality of life in the Golan comes into focus as the boundaries of land and water resources reinforce this basic structure of the occupation that begins at the shouting mountain.
Seth Porcello is an independent journalist living in Montreal Canada where he works with CKUT 90.3 FM. During the summer of 2006 he worked as a news editor at the IMEMC.org in Beit Sahour Palestine where he produced four radio documentaries on the Occupied Territories.
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http://imemc.org