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Previously on Media Edge:
Episode 351 (January 28-30)
Segment 1 -- "Sleepless in Gaza...and Jerusalem"
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 Independence 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.
Segment 2 -- "Grounds for Resistance"
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.
Segment 3 -- "Make a Better World"
A music video by Media Edge producer Michael Stavros, blended with the music of Maria Muldaur.
Episode 350 (January 21-23)
Segment 1 -- "Peak Moment"
This turbulent, troubled global economy is precisely what author Chris Martenson predicted in early 2010. He asserts that we can no longer look at the economy without factoring in the terminal decline of its master resource: oil. Martenson believes that, as “the generation that gets to deal with hitting up to resource limits,” we first need a new cultural story to inspire appropriate action.
Segment 2 -- "Daniel Ellsberg, PhD"
Daniel Ellsberg is a former United States military analyst who, while
employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political
controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret
Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the
Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers. Ellsberg spoke
in Sacramento on September 9, 2011 about secrets, lies and ethics from
the Viet Nam era through today’s WikiLeaks publications. His presentation
was recorded by Media Edge.
Segment 3 -- "SHADA"
A photographic journey with Haiti's Forgotten Children by Sacramento area photographer and activist Leisa Faulkner.
Episode 349 (January 14-16)
Segment 1 -- "Sleepless in Gaza...and Jerusalem"
Day 50: Join Yara in Aroura as she reports for Ajyal Radio station on the largest Musakhan dish (Palestine's National Dish) trying to break the Guinness Book of World Records. While talking to Ribhi on how Israel claims Palestinian dishes as their own, Yara discovers that he is the brother of Mashour Arouri who was killed 34 years ago and his body is still not delivered to his parents. At her request, he takes her to his parent's home to meet them. Mashour’s parents only wish to bury their son in his village. Who is Mashour Arouri? Mashour’s mom shows us her son’s clothes that she has kept in place since his death.
In Gaza, Eman goes to the Corner Market (Souk Al Zawiya); a historical landmark, to buy groceries. People from all around the Gaza strip come to the Phoenix square. What does it symbolize? Check out the rich souk, and listen to Abu Ahmad, a cart merchant, singing about his goods and customers. Take a look at one of the oldest mosques in Gaza boasting several domes: Al Omari Mosque.
Segment 2 -- "The 800 Mile Wall"
The 800 Mile Wall highlights the construction of the new border walls along the U.S.-Mexico border as well as the effect on migrants trying to cross into the U.S. This powerful 90-minute film is an unflinching look at the failed U.S. border strategy that many believe has caused the death of thousands of migrants and violates fundamental human rights. Since border walls have been built, well over 5,000 migrant bodies have been recovered in U.S. deserts, mountains and canals. Some unofficial reports put the death toll as high as 10,000 men, women and children. As a direct result of U.S. border policy, migrants are forced to cross treacherous deserts and mountains in search of low skill and low paying jobs in the United States.
Episode 348 (January 7-9)
Segment 1 -- "Peak Moment"
"I have a ball preserving food with my friends!” And at the same time, author Kathy Harrison is making sure her kids can eat if storms knock out power or roads. She gives practical tips on storing food without getting overwhelmed. She looks at dehydrating, canning, and root cellaring; finding and preserving local food, and buying food at discount. For Kathy, preparedness is an empowering, community activity.
Segment 2 -- "Sleepless in Gaza...and Jerusalem"
Day 49: Diana and Ashira are adamant to find out the truth about Raed Abu Hamad's death while in solitary confinement at Beersheba Prison. Diana heads to Raed's home and Ashira heads to the Israeli Forensic center where the autopsy is performed. Why did the parents and the PA's Ministry of Prisoners send a Palestinian doctor and lawyer to monitor the autopsy? So was it a suicide like the Israeli Prison Authorities claimed? What did the lawyer have to say? The Israeli ambulance takes the body of Raed close to his hometown where he is moved to a Palestinian ambulance. Why is the forensic doctor checking Raed's body again? After five years away, arriving in an Israeli black bag is not the way to return back home, so his brothers wrap him in a Palestinian flag. Join Ashira in the ambulance till they reach home where Diana and the family await. How is Raed received at home? The girls stay with him through the farewells at home, a procession of thousands that takes him to the cemetery, last prayers and until he is buried.
Segment 3 -- "Death and Taxes"
Twenty-eight people offer their motivations for and methods of resisting the war machine with their tax money. This tightly paced film introduces viewers to war tax refusal and redirecting tax dollars to peace, with music by Sharon Jones and the DapKings, Antibalas, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, and First Strike Theatre’s version of “Don’t Pay Taxes” by Charlie King.
Segment 4 -- "I Won't Drown on that Levee and You Ain't Gonna Break My Back"
After Hurricane Katrina, there was a botched evacuation of the Orleans Parish Prison, and racial tension and brutality that divided the population into survivors and looters along lines of race and class.
Episode 347 (January 1-2)
Segment 1 -- "A Community Debate -- Achieving a Just Peace in Israel/Palestine: Is the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) Campaign a Help or Hindrance?"
Recorded in Davis, California in 2010 by a Media Edge crew, this debate was sponsored by the Davis Peace Coalition and features:
(1) Omar Barghouti, an independent Palestinian researcher, commentator, human rights activist, founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and of the Palestinian Civil Society Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. Barghouti holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia University, NY.
(2) Zeev Maoz, a UC Davis professor of political science, and director of the International Relations Program. Maoz is a scholar of Middle East politics and an expert on the Israeli security establishment. He serves as a distinguished fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel, and is a past director of academic programs at Tel Aviv University, the University of Haifa and the Israeli Defense Forces' National Defense College.
Segment 2 -- "A Stranger in His Own Country"
Thousands of Iraqis have been displaced by sectarian violence and have had to seek refuge in other parts of the country. This is a portrait of Abu Ali, a refugee from Kirkuk living in a displaced person’s camp on the outskirts of Kerbala. He is a peace-loving man with a keen sense of justice, trying to find a way to survive and provide for his family in the difficult circumstances in which they now find themselves.
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