Posted on Friday, 25 June, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
Deep Dish TV is assisting my friend in Rafah, Gaza, Fida Qishta, develop and distribute Where Should the Birds Fly, a powerful on-the-ground view documentary. Fida worked with several folks including yours truly on the Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project for a spell, and this documentary represents a lot of what that project was about: bringing a real view of life in Gaza to the rest of the world. Get a perspective from a local’s point of view.
In this film, Fida captures what was happening in Gaza during Israel’s onslaught in 2008, “Operation Cast Lead,” which killed and injured thousands of Palestinian civilians, and the aftermath since. You can help complete this moving film, a story that can engage the minds and touch the hearts of people in the U.S. Distribution isn’t cheap. Deep Dish is working to raise $30,000. Donations are tax deductible, which is more than you can say about the part of your taxable income that goes to perpetuate the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. Visit the Deep Dish website to help this project move along.
Posted on Friday, 18 June, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
Cultures of Resistance the film is a feature-length documentary directed by Iara Lee. The film draws connections between people on every continent and highlights the work of artists, musicians, and dancers throughout the world who are re-conceiving resistance as a fundamentally creative act. The Cultures of Resistancewebsite seeks to get audiences involved with the activist groups and campaigns featured in the film.
Posted on Thursday, 11 February, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
This is funny and sad when you have a newspaper career somewhere in your past and can still recall once having some sort of passionate feeling about them. Then you remember the incredibly thick-headed herd of corporate executive types who were basically doing news rags in faster than any other force ever could hope to, and that thing that could have saved them (the web) was looked at suspiciously by the majority of this same cadre of non-contributing mouth breathers who didn’t spend any time in news rooms and who could only imagine the possibilities of online distribution in terms of an outmoded, outdated business model that had been used for decades to erode independent journalism in favor of higher quarterly profits and car advertising inserts.
Some came and took our land, forced us to leave, forced us to live in camps. I think this is terrorism. Using means to resist this terrorism and stop its effects – this is called struggle. — Leila Khaled
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Some came and took our land, forced us to leave, forced us to live in camps. I think this is terrorism. Using means to resist this terrorism and stop its effects – this is called struggle.
