Thu, 26 April 2012
A five-minute segment of news from Bethlehem, in the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank.
Comments[0]
|
Thu, 26 April 2012
On this week's Radio Against Apartheid, DJ Ev Daddy and Matt Graber bring a whole hour of news and updates from what's been happening around the US, Israel, and Palestine. Finally, and most importantly, Bahraini human rights advocate Abdulhadi al Khawaja is on his 78th day of hunger strike protesting his imprisonment and Bahrain's violent crackdown on peaceful protests. Please take action to demand al Khawaja's release!
Comments[0]
|
Sat, 21 April 2012
On this week's Radio Against Apartheid, DJ Ev Daddy and Matt Graber are joined by Natalia Cuadra-Saez, the coordinator for the United Methodist Kairos Response. At the United Methodist General Conference, convening in Tampa, Florida on April 24, delegates to the United Methodist Church be voting on a resolution to divest from Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions, and Hewlett Packard for their complicity and support of the Israeli occupation. In 2009, Palestinian Christian leaders from Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and throughout the region issued the Kairos document, in which they wrote:
In this historic document, we Palestinian Christians declare that the military occupation of our land is a sin against God and humanity, and that any theology that legitimizes the occupation is far from Christian teachings because true Christian theology is a theology of love and solidarity with the oppressed, a call to justice and equality among peoples. In response to the call from Palestinian Christians, and in an effort to conform to the UMC's own policies, the United Methodist Kairos Response is seeking the passage of a resolution at this year's General Conference to divest from three companies supporting and profiting from the military occupation of Palestinian lands: Caterpillar, Motorola, and Hewlett Packard. First and foremost, the divestment initiative is an effort from United Methodist Church to remove our own financial support for the military occupation.
Caterpillar, Inc. is a multinational corporation based in Peoria, Illinois, that sells weaponized bulldozers and other civil engineering tools to Israel. Caterpillar bulldozers are routinely used to destroy Palestinian homes, construct Israel's illegal separation barrier, and to injure and kill civilians. Caterpillar specially manufactures the D9 and D10 military bulldozers for Israel; and Ben David Alon, an Israeli military commander, once referred to Caterpillar bulldozers as 'the key weapon' in Israel's military occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Since Israel's military occupation began in 1967, Israel has demolished over 26,000 Palestinian homes in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Jerusalem. Even today, the Israeli military is attempting to remove Palestinians from their lands in the village of Al Walaja in the West Bank, Beit Arabiya in East Jerusalem, and Al Araqib in the Negev Desert, in the south of Israel (in fact, Palestinians, Israelis, and international activists have rebuilt the homes in Al Araqib 33 times, each time to have their structures bulldozed by the Israeli military).
In an advisory opinion released in 2004, the International Court of Justice found that the wall being constructed by Israel is contrary to international law. Israel has the right to construct a wall, but 88% of the wall is built on occupied Palestinian territory in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and this construction proceeds by force under the oversight of the Israeli military with no authorization by the Palestinians whose lands it is built upon. The wall goes deep into the territory in the West Bank and segregates Palestinians from their own farmlands and other villages, oftentimes enabling settlers to confiscate the land.
With this resolution, the United Methodist Church has an historical opportunity to do something that 18 years of peace talks have been incapable of achieving: the opportunity to bring a cessation of violence to the land of Israel and Palestine.
Direct download: Show_24_United_Methodist_Kairos_Response.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:35 AM
Comments[0]
|
Fri, 13 April 2012
No show this week.
Comments[0]
|
Fri, 6 April 2012
This week on Radio Against Apartheid, we honor the memories of Juliano Mer Khamis, Martin Luther King Jr., and Trayvon Martin. We are joined on the program by a representative of Addameer, the Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association to talk about the recent hunger strikes of Hana Al Shalabi, Khader Adnan, the process of administrative detention, and the "kangaroo courts" of the Israeli military in the occupied territories.
Palestine News Network provides a tribute to the memory of Juliano Mer Khamis, and gives a wrap-up of this week's news in the occupied territories.
Finally, we are proud to conclude the show with a song from Philadelphia's own tUnE-yArDs, who back in January canceled their show in Tel Aviv as a demonstration of their support for the Palestinian call for a cultural boycott of Israel.
It should be noted that in the United States prisoners are being unjustly held in solitary confinement. Two such cases which have gotten the attention of the BBC and Amnesty International are those of Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace, two black men held in solitary for almost 40 years.
Please sign Amnesty's petition to LA state governor Bobby Jindal to have them both released to general population, and to hold the state accountable for this cruel and inhumane punishment.
Comments[0]
|
Radio Against Apartheid
Amplifying voices for justice and equality in the Middle East
Categories
generalArchives
FebruaryJanuary
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
March
February
January
December
November
October
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
| 29 | 30 | |||||
Syndication
