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Jan 26
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This show includes an interview with Rev. Robert Assali from Montreal about the Canadian government’s de-funding of NGO’s such as Kairos and Sabeel, both faith-based organizations. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Jan26_2010_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps encoding, ~14MB)
Jan 26
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News Highlights: International delegations come to Nilin to learn more about the escalating Israeli arrest campaign against human rights activists. Israeli settlers, and then soldiers, attack Palestinian villagers near Nablus. Israeli government upgrades Ariel College to university status, which is located in an illegal settlement deep inside the occupied West Bank. EU says it will …
Jan 12
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This show includes an interview from Cairo with Abdu Mihirig, a UBC student who went to Cairo to be part of the Gaza Freedom March. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Jan12_2010_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps encoding, ~14MB)
Jan 12
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News Highlights: Amnesty International calls on the Israeli government to release 3 leading Palestinian human rights activists or bring them to trial; the 3 are all being held without charge, and are prisoners of conscience. An international activist with the International Solidarity movement is seized by Israeli soldiers in Ramallah and deported. Some Gazan families …
Jan 05
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News Highlights: An Israeli court extends the detention of Palestinian human rights activist Jamal Juma despite no charges being brought against him after 20 days of incarceration. Egyptian authorities try to block the Viva Palestina aid convoy after stopping international delegates from going to the Gaza Freedom March the week prior. Protestors in Jordan hold …
Jan 05
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This show includes a live interview from Cairo with Ehab Lotayef, an Egyptian Canadian poet, activist and engineer who was part of the Gaza Freedom March Coordinating Committee. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Jan05_2010_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps encoding, ~14MB)
Dec 29
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News Highlights: Egyptian government refuses to allow 1400 international delegates to leave Cairo and reach Gaza on the first anniversary of the Israeli assault; the delegates were all part of the Gaza Freedom March and are from 42 countries. On December 26th, Israeli forces killed 6 Palestinians in two separate attacks in the West Bank …
Dec 29
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This show commemorated the first anniversary of the Israeli aggression on Gaza with a very special cultural presentation, the play “Seven Days from a Gaza Diary”. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Dec29_2009_32kbps.mp3 (32 kbps encoding, ~14MB)
Dec 22
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News Highlights: Organizers of the Gaza Freedom March call on the Egyptian government to open the Rafah border crossing, which was recently closed, and allow the international march to go ahead on December 31st. Palestinian Christians in Gaza are refused permits by the Israeli government to visit Bethlehem for Christmas. Jamal Juma, coordinator of Stop …