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Showing videos filed under: palestinians
Hebron Palestinians Protest Closures
March 2, 2010The Real News Network reports on protests in the occupied Palestinian city of Hebron. After Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a new Israeli "heritage" plan, which classifies national and holy sites in Israel and the occupied territories as Israeli "heritage." This video explores the tensions that this plan is helping to escalate.Mapping Torture, Renee Feltz, and Hebron
March 1, 2010In Trevor Paglen's new book, Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World, he investigates the "off the map" locations of covert government activity: including the "salt pit" in Kabul where Khaled El-Masri was held.Rapping Against Post-War Misery
December 22, 2009MC Tamarrod is a rapper living in Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon. The camp was destroyed in the war in 2007, and MC Tamarrod is among 30.000 displaced Palestinians. In this video from a-films, he tells his story and performs one of his rhymes.Movies, Philadelphia Security Officers, and Alan Grayson
December 21, 2009The holiday season is usually when the biggest movies of the year come out, but there are several that have been out for a while generating lots of buzz. Kathryn Bigelow received a Golden Globe nomination for The Hurt Locker and is being touted as the woman who could break the Best Director Oscar's all-male streak. Other films this year told unconventional stories of women outside the usual mold of Hollywood superstars. But was this actually a good year for women in cinema?The F Word: Anti-Palestinian Amendments Fail
March 10, 2009What's involved in undoing discriminatory ways of thinking? Sometimes its as simple as practicing a little empathy or exercising imagination.Closing the Polls on Peace
February 15, 2009Peace isn’t having a good week in the Middle East. Bombs continued to drop on Gaza and right wing fanatics made fast paced gains in Israel’s Knesset. Avigdor Lieberman’s extremist party, Yisrael Beiteinu, picked up 15 seats in the February 10 election (nearly one fourth of the seats needed for a coalition government), even beating out the so-called moderate Labor party, which picked up 14 seats.
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