This show includes a live interview with Waziyatawin, an indigenous activist and academic, about her recent trip to Palestine as part of a delegation of indigenous and women of color feminists. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Aug30_2011_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps encoding, ~14MB)
August 2011 archive
Aug 30
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News Highlights: Israeli troops attack a peaceful protest in the Palestinian village of al Walaja near Bethlehem and arrest 4 Israeli peace activists who joined the rally; al Walaja is set to lose half of its farming land due to construction of the Israeli apartheid wall. Egyptians continue their protest outside the Israeli embassy in …
Aug 23
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News Highlights: 4 days of Israeli airstrikes kill at least 15 Palestinians, including a two year old toddler Palestinian medical official in Gaza says Israeli forces have been using new and more lethal weapons against the population there Israeli human rights groups criticize the decision of the Israeli Supreme Court upholding the route of the …
Aug 23
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This show includes a live interview with Aaron Lakoff from CKUT radio in Montreal about the recent decision of the National Campus and Community Radio Association in Canada to support the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions BDS Movement against Israel. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Aug23_2011_32kbps.mp3 …
Aug 16
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News Highlights: Israeli warplanes strike Gaza, killing one Palestinian and wounding others, including a 6-year-old child; later, Israeli forces shoot and kill a Palestinian teen near Deir al Balah, with more than 10 gunshot wounds to the head and upper body according to medics Israeli officials announce more illegal settlement housing to be built, with …
Aug 16
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This show includes the first part of a speech presented by Palestinian activist Omar Barghouti at the Socialism 2011 conference in Chicago on July 3rd, 2011. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Aug16_2011_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps encoding, ~14MB)
Aug 09
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News Highlights: French multinational Veolia, at the center of an ongoing boycott campaign, announced major losses; Veolia has been involved in illegally building Israeli projects on occupied Palestinian land. Palestinian prisoners rights group called for the release of Bushra al-Tawil, 18, who has been held for a month without any charge; she is the daughter …
Aug 09
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This show includes a special commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the destruction of the Tal Zaatar Palestinian refugee camp as well as marking the 3rd anniversary of the passing of the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Aug09_2011_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps …
Aug 02
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This show includes a live interview with Noura Erekat, a Palestinian writer, activist and attorney, who currently teaches at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Aug02_2011_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps encoding, ~14MB)
Aug 02
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News Highlights: UN official Chris Gunness says link between Israeli settlement expansion and Palestinian displacement is “abundantly clear”. UN envoy Robert Serry urges restraint from Israeli authorities after 2 Palestinians are killed in a dawn raid by Israeli soldiers on a Palestinian refugee camp. Egyptian tanks enter Tahrir Square to evict protestors on the first …