Today on the show, guest host Gil Halsted is joined in the studio by Laila Hassan, co-founder of Women in Hebron, a Palestinian nonprofit fair-trade cooperative, to talk about her experience supporting women’s work in the West Bank. Women in Hebron are hosting two sale events in Wisconsin this weekend: – Saturday, December 14, 2:00 […]
Open Line with Allen Ruff
“The world is increasingly on fire, literally and figuratively,” says host Allen Ruff at the beginning of today’s episode. So let’s talk about it! This afternoon, we opened up the phone lines to hear from listeners about their own observations and concerns about our world-on-fire. Callers weighed in on newsworthy topics like the political crisis […]
Palestinian Youth Under Siege and Occupation with Yousef Aljamal
On today’s episode, Allen continues his coverage of the Middle East with Palestinian journalist Yousef Aljamal, who is currently on a US speaking tour to promote the collection Dreaming of Freedom: Palestinian Child Prisoners Speak, featuring firsthand accounts of Palestinian youth held in Israeli detention facilities in the occupied West Bank. Yousef Aljamal is a […]
Human Rights in Palestine with the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
Since 2008, the Freedom Flotilla movement has sent thirty-five ships attempting to break Israel’s illegal, US-backed military blockade of Gaza that has denied two million people, including children, access to food, clean water, fuel, medicine, and other necessities for the past thirteen years. This week, the Gaza Freedom Flotilla’s North American Boat is in Madison […]
Nakba Tour: The Story of a Palestinian Refugee
On May 14, 1948, Mariam Fathalla was forced to leave her ancient Palestinian town of al-Zeeb at the age of eighteen. In the year that followed, more than half of all Palestinians were expelled or killed in a series of events now known as al-Nakba (the Catastrophe). For today’s episode, guest host Gil Halsted presents […]
Climate Displacement, Human Rights, and Refugees
We bring you another two-part show today! First, we talk to research scientist and human rights attorney Robin Bronen about climate displacement and the human costs of environmental disaster. In the second segment, Palestinian journalist and refugee Amena ElAshkar discusses her work raising awareness about human injustices in Palestine with the North America Nakba Tour. […]
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