Tag: Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement

WERU News Report 8/15/12

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributor: Matt Murphy

Program Topics: Occupy Maine/Occupy Wall Street; Mainers Report Back From Palestine

*Occupy Maine statewide meeting will be held at Burdock Gathering in Starks on 8/19/12
*Mainers who recently returned from Palestine spoke about their experiences recently
*Efforts underway to organize a group in Maine to join the international BDS (boycott, divest, sanctions) movement for human rights

-Interview with David Smith, Occupy Waldo County
-Recorded audio from Palestine presentation: Sally Bowden-Schaible

FMI:
https://www.facebook.com/OccupyMaine
https://www.facebook.com/OccupyWallSt
http://www.burdockgathering.org
http://hamdiabu.tumblr.com/
https://www.facebook.com/LAMDI.PhotoGraPhy

WERU Special: Palestine/Israel 5/22/12

Producer/Host: Carolyn Coe

Key Discussion Points:
a) Framing: the political messaging in the language used about Palestine/Israel
b) Under-reported stories and voices of Palestinians and people in the Jewish Israeli human rights movement
c) “Brand Israel” and the push back against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement

Guest:
Dr. Alice Rothchild, co-founder and co-chair of American Jews for a Just Peace-Boston and author of Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resistance

Call In Program: no