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• An Inside Look at Gaza

  January 11, 2010

  Last week on GRITtv, Ali Abunimah noted that it was harder to get into Gaza than to get into a maximum security prison. Journalists are no exception--most of them have been kept out for three years. So the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem handed video cameras to 18 young Gazans and asked them to document what's going on -- for sharing with Israelis and the rest of the world. Thanks so much to B'Tselem for sharing the videos with us.

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• Transgender Equality, El Salvador, and Gaza

  January 11, 2010

  Barack Obama made the first transgender political appointments that we know of recently--Amanda Simpson, appointed last week as senior technical adviser in the Bureau of Industry and Security in the Commerce Department, and Dylan Orr, special assistant to Assistant Secretary of Labor Kathleen Martinez in the Office of Disability Employment Policy at the Department of Labor--but even David Letterman couldn't resist making a crack at Simpson's expense.

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• Will the Blockade of Gaza Continue?

  January 24, 2009

  On his first day in office Barack Obama made a round of phone calls to key players in the Middle East. At the same time, Israel and Hamas have declared unilateral ceasefires and Israel has agreed to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. GRITtv spoke to Phyllis Bennis, Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, in Washington, DC about US policy in the Middle East under Obama.

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• The F Word: Action Is Not Negotiable Here or in Palestine

  November 25, 2008

  It's been two weeks since the Israeli government imposed a complete closure on the Gaza strip. While the Israeli authorities seem to be trying to conceal the reality of life under siege by preventing journalists from entering, pressure for action is growing internationally.

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