In the face of ongoing Israeli military actions directed at the Gaza Strip, which have taken the lives of over one-hundred Palestinians within the past week — including multiple children — a popular committee has formed in Gaza, which has been coordinating a series of popular direct actions and appealing for protests lead by social justice movements throughout the world.
On Monday, February 25th, the Popular Committee Against the Siege in Gaza, organize a major protest, bringing tens-of-thousands of Palestinians on the streets of Gaza, to protest the ongoing Israeli closure enforced on Gaza, which has left the 1.5 million Palestinians of Gaza without basic supplies, without regular electricity and often without clean water. The protest aimed to highlight the realities of the ongoing Israeli siege on Gaza, which Amnesty International recently deemed a violation of international law.
This interview with organizer Sam Hadeeb provides a direct perspective on popular, or grassroots organizing taking place in Gaza in opposition to the ongoing Israeli siege on Gaza, which has been maintained in the context of ongoing Israeli military operations throughout the Gaza Strip, that have drawn international condemnation, including from the Secretary General of the U.N.
This program was produced by Stefan Christoff for Radio Tadamon! on March 10, 2008.
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Stefan Christoff speaks to writer/activist Tariq Ali on the history of Hezbollah as a political force in Lebanon & the Middle East, while also addressing Canada’s designation of the movement as “terrorist” in the post 9/11 political environment.
This program was produced for Radio TADAMON on November 2, 2007.
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http://tariqali.org
On Saturday, December 16th, 2006, Palestinian solidarity activists gathered on St. Catherine street in downtown Montreal to draw attention to a 2005 appeal from Palestinian civil-society organizations to “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel Until it Complies with International Law and Universal Principles of Human Rights.”
This audio report was produced for CKUT Radio’s Off the Hour by Stefan Christoff on December 16th, 2006.
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