One Palestinian village provides a hopeful note for the conflict in this week's featured documentary, Budrus. An unlikely organizer unites Hamas and Fatah, Palestinian and Israeli, men and women in an nonviolent campaign of resistance to the construction of the separation wall.
The film is directed by award-winning filmmaker Julia Bacha (Control Room, Encounter Point), and produced by Bacha, Palestinian journalist Rula Salameh, and filmmaker and human rights advocate Ronit Avni (formerly of WITNESS, Director of Encounter Point).
I loved the Control Room, and this looks very well done. I’m going to keep my eyes open.
By criticiseafterdinner on March 22nd, 2010 at 5:30 pm
In fact, they are counting on violence, cause that is what gives them the ammo they need to clamp down and vilify.
Elites seeding amongst the “vassals” is exactly why they create unequal economics, Jim Crow or Apartheid conditions one working class against another, or use these Western religions so successfully. They were written for that 2500 yrs ago for precisely the same land-grabbing and empire building game they are used so well for today. Cyrus has the very same ideas as did the Brits, and now do the Americans. The empires remain firmly in control of the money in that region, and the locals are lost in rounds and rounds of self-seeding violence amongst each succeeding generation of the young. That is also the reason for sanctions and sieges, so that enterprising thugs get teh economic power in the community, and the middle- and upper-middle- business classes disintegrate and lose their potency as leaders!
Non-violent resistance is exactly what they don’t want you to show the world you are capable of. Then the TV news shows get eerily quiet.
By Planck on March 30th, 2010 at 9:51 pm