THURSDAY, MAY 15th, from 1am until 7pm (AST) - Join us for this historic international radio reflection of the Palestinian Nakba or catastrophe. Content will be hosted by the International Middle East Media Center in Bethlehem (Palestine), in collaboration with CKDU 88.1fm in Halifax (Nova Scotia, Canada), CKUT 90.3fm in Montreal (Quebec, Canada), CHRY 105.5fm in Toronto (Ontario, Canada), and KBOO 90.7fm in Portland (Oregon, USA). Including contributions from Pacifica Radio and Democracy Now!
Tune-in and remember!
Thursday, May 15th, 2008, commemorates 60 years of the Palestinian Nakba. In 1948 eighty-five percent of the Palestinians living in the areas that became the state of Israel became refugees. More than 500 Palestinian villages were depopulated and later destroyed to prevent the return of the refugees. Today there are a total of 7 million Palestinian refugees, dispersed throughout the world - the largest and longest running refugee problem yet unresolved.
60-years later, Israel continues to occupy and colonize Palestinian land through the construction of Jewish only settlements and the Wall in the West Bank. The Gaza Strip has been turned into one large prison. Israel violates international law and commits ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity. And Palestinians abroad are the world's oldest refugee population, making-up more than one fourth of all refugees.
On Thursday, May 15th, we will broadcast throughout the day on these and many other topics. Beginning in Bethlehem live from the IMEMC, then moving to New York City with Democracy Now, plus contributions from stations across Canada and the US.
NAKBA BROADCASTING SCHEDULE ON CKDU 88.1fm AIR-WAVES
1am -2am (hosted by ckut)
- archived sounds from the nakba
- commemoration of the nakba with Arab Summit rappers
2am - 4am (hosted by ckut/imemc)
- Right of return and international law
- The ongoing Nakba
- Ongoing displacement of different kinds
4am - 5am (hosted by imemc)
- Suheir Hammad talking about poetry and resistance in Ramallah, 4/07
- Land day in Yaffa
- Right of Return movement today
5am - 6am (hosted by imemc)
- Interview with Hiyam Mashal, wife of political prisoner (with
translation by Ziad Abbas, Dheisheh refugee camp)
- Cemetery of numbers
- Profile on the Al Numan village
- Road signs in Palestine
- Young singer in Dheisheh talking about music and his life as a refugee
6am - 7am (hosted by imemc)
-Birthright Unplugged and Birthright Palestine
-History of political prisoners in Palestine
- phone update from streets of Palestine commemorating the nakba
7am - 8am (hosted by imemc)
- Artists working under apartheid documentary (feat. Nablus music school and Freedom theatre Jenin)
8am - 9am (hosted by imemc)
- phone update from streets of Palestine commemorating the nakba (5mins)
- Stories from Balata and Nablus
- 3 women from Haifa
11am - noon (hosted by ckut)
- remembering the nakba street interviews
- musical guest live in studio for interview and live music
- I was there: Remembering 1948 from Montreal Palestinians
1pm - 2pm (hosted by kboo)
- excerpts from the nakba competition throughout the hour
- live panel: Organizing in the Diaspora - Movements Worldwide for Justice
and Peace in Palestine
2pm - 3pm (hosted by kboo)
- Palestinian life inside '48: Jonathan Cook, author, Blood and Religion,
and DAM, #1 hip hop group in Palestine and Israel
3pm - 4pm (hosted by chry)
- Panel: Indigenous Solidarity from North America to Palestine
- excerpts from the nakba and/or musical selection
- live report from Palestine on commemoration
4 - 5pm (host ckdu)
- Refugee girls from Dheisheh camp talking about their visit to their original villages inside 48, with translation by Ziad Abbas, Dheisheh refugee camp
- Architecture of the Nakba and Occupation: Carving Israel Then and Now
- remembering the nakba street interviews
5 - 6pm (host ckdu)
- Panel: Zionist Apartheid and the One State Solution
- musical guest live in studio for interview and live music
6 - 7pm (hosted by ckut)
- the media on the nakba, with the Angry Arab blogger Prof. As'ad AbuKhalil
- live panel: international law and the nakba experience, then and now
- tools for justice
