November 2011 archive

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This show includes an in-studio interview with two members of the local Canada Boat to Gaza CBG committee, Karen DeVito and John Turnbull. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Nov29_2011_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps encoding, ~14MB)

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News Highlights: Israeli officials approve 119 housing units in the illegal settlement of Shilo. Mahmoud Abbas says Palestinian elections will be May 4, after recent reconciliation talks in Cairo with Hamas leader Khaled Meshal. The Palestinian Sumarin family in occupied East Jerusalem gets a temporary delay on their eviction by a Jewish National Fund subsidiary, …

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This show includes an interview with author Michael Riordon, who is in BC on a speaking tour about his new book “Our Way to Fight”. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Nov22_2011_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps encoding, ~14MB)

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News Highlights: Israeli settler groups are given approval to take over more Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem. Cairo police attack demonstrators in and around Tahrir Square, killing at least 33. Israeli authorities extend the detention of a female Palestinian journalist from al Quds TV, even though no charges have yet been brought against her. …

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News Highlights: Palestinian activists board settler buses in Jerusalem, in an inspiration from the Freedom Riders of the US civil rights movement; all the activists are arrested but later released. Palestinian prisoner advocates say Israeli authorities have failed to lift arbitrary restrictions on detainees in Israeli jails, including the extended use of solitary confinement. 3 …

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This show includes a live, in-studio interview with Dr. John Soos from Vancouver, who had just returned from a trip to occupied Palestine. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Nov15_2011_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps encoding, ~14MB)

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This show includes a live interview with Palestinian American writer and activist Ali Abunimah, who was also one of the cofounders of the Electronic Intifada. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Nov08_2011_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps encoding, ~14MB)

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News Highlights: Palestinians continue to protest against the Israeli apartheid wall and its confiscation of land, especially in the Bethlehem region; al Walaja village will be entirely encircled by cement blocks on the wall is completed and the land of the Cremisan monastery in Beit Jala is now also threatened. Israeli military forces board two …

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News Highlights: UNESCO votes in favour of admitting Palestine as a full member; the US, which voted against the move along with Israel and Canada (amongst others), immediately cuts its funding to the UN body. Another Palestinian is killed in Gaza by Israeli airstrikes, bringing the death toll to 12 in two days. Feature: The …

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This show includes another is our series of Eyewitness Palestine segments, this one highlighting the Palestinian olive harvest, the harassment of Palestinian farmers and the slow recovery of the Gaza olive trade. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Nov01_2011_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps encoding, ~14MB)