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Nov 11
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This show includes an interview with Jef Keighley, the co-chair of Stopwar.ca, and representative of the Canadian Autoworkers Union; speaking about the involvement of Canada in the Middle East and Afghanistan and how current Canadian foreign and military policy does not serve Canadian interests. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at …
Nov 11
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News Highlights: 13 Palestinians killed in 48 hours over the weekend by Israeli forces, including a 10 year old boy in Gaza and a 14 year old near Jenin. Four activists from the International Solidarity Movement were shot and injured by Israeli soldiers in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus. 3 Palestinians died on Nov. …
Nov 04
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This show includes a live interview with Melissa, a B.C. university student and activist who is currently in Rafah, Gaza with the International Solidarity Movement. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Nov4_2003_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB)
Nov 04
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News Highlights: Five Israeli soldiers, members of a parachute commando unit, were wounded in an explosion in Nablus on Nov. 2; Nablus was then totally sealed off and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel said ambulances were forbidden passage and a nine-month pregnant Palestinian woman had to wait for four hours at a checkpoint. Two Palestinian teenagers, …
Oct 28
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This show includes an analysis on the biased (usually by neglect) coverage in our local media regarding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Oct21_2003_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB)
Oct 28
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News Highlights: Israeli government grants “legal and permanent” status to wildcat settlement outposts, thus providing education and security services – Palestinian analysts state this will create new demographical and geographical facts on the ground. Israeli forces shot and killed Palestinian worker Jamal Ismail Qados, 39, near Nablus. Palestinian leaders denounce the new Israeli decision to …
Oct 21
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This show includes an interview with Mazin Qumiyseh, professor at Yale University and co-founder of Al Awda (Palestine Right to Return Coalition), who spoke about his recent trip to Palestine and also about the new “Geneva Accords”. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Oct21_2003_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps …
Oct 21
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News Highlights: Palestinians across the Gaza Strip mourned the dead and wounded from the previous day’s Israeli air raids, and the Nusseirat refugee camp with 7 people killed was the scene of a mass funeral. International leaders and even some Israeli politicians criticized the air raids and their toll on innocent civilians. A 14-year-old Palestinian …
Oct 14
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This show includes an interview with Maxine, a B.C. woman currently in the West Bank for over a month. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Oct14_2003_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB)
Oct 14
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News Highlights: Israeli raid into Rafah leaves hundreds of Palestinians homeless and eight dead, including two young children; entire rows of houses crushed under bulldozers. Palestinian Center for Human Rights reports that the Israeli army used a banned nerve gas, adamatite, during the attack on Rafah Israel announces plans to deport 18 Palestinian administrative detainees …