Danny
Glover, Peter Hallward, and Anthony Fenton
contribute to breaking down the media avoidance
of Haiti's history of foreign intervention.
According to Hallward, Haiti's poverty can
be explained as a series of foreign responses
to the independence and strength of the Haitian
people, but since the media doesn't acknowledge
this, they are forced to propose weakness
and bad luck as the sources of Haiti's poverty.
Glover adds that without the history, we are
prone to misunderstanding and the blaming
of the victim, which in some cases serves
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democracy in Haiti, in recent years Canada
has played a very significant role, among
others.
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"Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct. If they [the Jews] must look to the Palestine of geography as their national home, it is wrong to enter it under the shadow of the British gun. A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb."
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UN Security Council: The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question - 6th January 2009OPEN
“This is Dante’s Inferno, hell. There are injuries here you just don’t want to see in this world. Children coming in with their abdomens open and legs cut off. We just had a child and we had to amputate both legs and an arm. Their only crime is that they are civilians, Palestinians, living in Gaza. The bombing has to stop immediately. This cannot go on. Anyone who portrays this as a clean war against another army is lying. This is an all out war against the civilian population in Gaza. They cannot flee as other populations can in war time because Israel has them trapped in a cage. Israel is bombing one and a half million people trapped in a cage.”
END THE SIEGE of GAZA demonstration (London) - 3rd January 2009OPEN
GAZA - Stop The Massacre demonstration (London) - 10th January 2009OPEN
The Question of Palestine & The United NationsOPEN
Holocaust Denied: The Lying Silence of Those Who KnowOPEN
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