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Media Panel, Garbage Dreams and Cartoons in Conflict
Obama headed overseas this week, to the Copenhagen climate talks. Today, though, he made a stop in Oslo to accept his Nobel Peace Prize. It's also Human Rights Day, but you might be excused for not having heard that--the media seems more concerned with Tiger Woods' sex life.
A panel of journalists join us in the studio to discuss the way the media did--and didn't--cover the biggest news of the week. Joseph Huff-Hannon, independent journalist and Nation contributor, Rana Foroohar, senior editor at Newsweek, and Lionel of Air America critique coverage of Copenhagen, Obama, health care, the economy, and yes, even Tiger.
Our documentary feature this week is Garbage Dreams, directed by Mai Iskander, a film that tells the story of the 60,000 Zaballeen who live in a "garbage village" and make their living by recycling an impressive 80 percent of Cairo's garbage. The documentary follows several teenage boys as they figure out their futures, while multinational garbage corporations threaten their livelihood.
Since it's Human Rights Day, we take the time to remember those whose human rights are often forgotten. Until When, co-produced by our own Suzy Salamy, follows four Palestinian families living in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp near Bethlehem.
In Obama's acceptance speech today, he mounted a defense of war as a tool for peace. But activists Robi Damelin, who lost her son to a Palestinian sniper, and Mazen Faraj, who lost his father to an Israeli sniper, are advocating a different approach. Members of The Parents Circle-Families Forum, they're touring the U.S. with Cartoons in Conflict, an exhibit featuring the work of forty renowned American and international cartoonists, who offer their singular perspective on conflict, reconciliation, and peace. Robi and Mazen join Laura in the studio to tell their stories, how they came to work for peace, and talk about the cartoons they're presenting.
Finally, today we peel back the curtain a bit with Joel Silberman, strategic communications consultant/trainer with the New Organizing Institute and also an award-winning theatrical director and performer. Joel gives us some quick tips for doing media that anyone can use should they find themselves on the receiving end of a camera.
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so so right. Let the Israelis and Palestinians work it out. But, that means of course getting our Pentagon to cease and desist with IDF, Mossad and AIPAC et al. Israel serves a purpose for the US military in a place we are in deep deep trouble. And using them puts them in deep deep trouble. Read The Nation article “Myths, Meth and the Georgian Invasion” to find out how Mossad is helping us in Republic of Georgia. Doesn’t sound too good for Israel, given Putin is the Big Boy in that part of town with an oil business to protect. Us backing Saakisvili and using Israelis to get pipeline for Chevron across the Caucasus can’t be good for the Jews either! Messing things up every day with Palestinians and provoking freedom fighters is exactly what the neo-cons needed to continue to justify the US backing the conflict and keeping all of us in a fog of war. Hence, settlements and many provocations. This is classic Brzezinski, CIA “destabilization” strategy used countless times everywhere we had interests in preventing democracy and peace!(the Brit empire stirred up the locals too everywhere it went too). Even the Israelis are against each other now!
By AlbyFlugzeug on December 10th, 2009 at 11:31 pm