Episode 351
(January 28-30)

Segment 1: "Sleepless in Gaza...and Jerusalem"
  (52 minutes)

Day 51: Ashira joins her friend Bakrieyh on a tour to the Palestinian villages that were displaced in order to drive the Palestinians out of their homes and make way for Jewish immigrants in 1948. Today marks Israel’s Independent Day which is known to Palestinians as the Catastrophe; when the Palestine lost their country and Israel came to being. Why did Fidaa leave Spain and come back home? Why doesn’t she believe in dialogue anymore? Listen to Sari on how neighbor turned on neighbor. What is the story of Abed who was born in Miska. Listen to what Sheikh Raed Salah has to say on the right of return. What happed at the village of Miska? Where are its people now?
In Gaza, Eman pays a visit to her friend Umm Walid who lives in Beit Lahia. Meet the Palestinian farmer’s women who harvest the land along with their husbands. The farms can’t afford to hire workers so man and woman put hand in hand to make ends meet. Join Eman to help Hend pick her Zucchini’s and listen to the farmers tell you about their experience being so close to the borders with Israel. 

Day 52: Diana is in Belin for the 5th Annual Popular Resistance Conference where locals and Internationals gather to coordinate and plan non-violent action against the occupation. Listen to what some participants have to say. Nagham in Gaza reads the writing on the wall, any wall, everywhere and about everything. Check out the Gazan communications machine. You can use it to make a political stance, express yourself, or place an ad.

Segmen.t 2: "Grounds for Resistance"
(58.5 minutes)

 

 

This documentary film is about Coffee Strong, a coffee shop located outside the gates of the U.S. Army base Fort Lewis in Washington: its importance for its most active members, active duty soldiers and their families, veterans of recent and past conflicts, and regional and national political movements. At the center of the film are the men and women whose experiences in the military and war compel them to commit themselves to help others who are serving or have served in the past. Each individual featured in the film exists within a nuanced tangle of conflicting emotions tied to pride, dedication to service, friendship, anger, disillusionment, sadness, and guilt. The film examines each one’s stories from their decisions to join the military, their experiences of war, and their motivations for devoting themselves to Coffee Strong. It explores how their relationships with one another and their activist efforts to make a more peaceful and just world help them cope with their own experiences.