October 2007 archive

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This show includes a live interview with Ali Abunimah, a Palestinian American author and activist and co-founder of the Electronic Intifada. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Oct30_2007_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB) VOP_Oct30_2007_16kbps.mp3 (16 kbps encoding, ~7.0MB)

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News Highlights: Israel’s new sanctions against Gaza are internationally condemned, and the Israeli Supreme Court gives the government a week to justify its embargo. 10 Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups had petitioned the court over the act of collective punishment. Human Rights Watch reveals that Israeli forces are preventing Palestinians from receiving medical treatment …

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This show includes a live interview from Palestine with Huweida Araf, a long-time activist and co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Oct23_2007_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB) VOP_Oct23_2007_16kbps.mp3 (16 kbps encoding, ~7.0MB)

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News Highlights: Oct. 21st – surgery rooms in Gazan hospitals are closed due to lack of anaesthetic as a result of Israeli restrictions; Palestinian human rights groups call on international community to pressure Israel to allow medicine and medical supplies into Gaza. Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails go on one-day hunger strike after Israeli authorities …

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This show includes an interview with American activist and author Lenni Brenner about the new petition campaign calling on the U.S. government to stop selling weapons to both Israel and Saudi Arabia. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Oct16_2007_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB) VOP_Oct16_2007_16kbps.mp3 (16 kbps …

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News Highlights: Israeli soldiers kill two Palestinians, including a 70-year-old man, in Nablus. U.N. official, John Dugard, says the UN should pull out of the Quartet if the group doesn’t start to take Palestinian human rights seriously; this is the second high-ranking UN official to take this position. Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmer as the …

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This show includes an in-studio discussion about the diplomatic maneuvers currently happening in advance of the U.S. sponsored summit next month. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Oct09_2007_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB) VOP_Oct09_2007_16kbps.mp3 (16 kbps encoding, ~7.0MB)

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News Highlights: Israel will expropriate more Palestinian land near East Jerusalem, from four Palestinian villages; experts say the move advances Israel’s plan to join Jerusalem with the settlement of Maaleh Adumim, effectively cutting the West Bank into two and severing the northern and southern regions. Israeli forces overrun Al Bureij refugee camp in Gaza; earlier, …

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This show includes an interview with Mustafa Habib, the coordinator for Marcel Khalife’s North American concert tour. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Oct02_2007_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB) VOP_Oct02_2007_16kbps.mp3 (16 kbps encoding, ~7.0MB)

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News Highlights: Israel releases 29 Palestinian prisoners from Gaza, a day after releasing 57 from the West Bank; Israeli soldiers shoot and wound a teen and a Reuters photographer when they fire at the crowd waiting to greet the released detainees. New report shows that Israel has changed the route of its apartheid wall to …

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