This is BAJ's announcement:
7:30 Wednesday February 11, at the
Community Church of Chapel Hill, UU
106 Purefoy Road [see directions below]
BALANCE & ACCURACY IN JOURNALISM,
with co-sponsors
Carolina Interfaith Taskforce Connecting the Americas
and the
and the
Charles Jones Peace and Justice committee
invites your discussion on
ENGAGING THE MEDIA ON MIDEAST CONFLICT
Media strategy, myths and answers
Good news angle: Educating with positive options
Dealing with the engineering of a violent outcome
Dealing with the politics of fear
Networking for the long term
Wednesday evening's meeting is a discussion among
peace organizations and other interested parties to
bring together strategies for a sustainable peace and
to reject "the peace of the graveyard" falsely promised
by our arms exporters.
Listed below are links to a few of the organizations
working for Mideast peace. Some are relative
newcomers and represent fresh hope and energy
for the long process.
Present for the discussion will be representatives of
the new peace coalition, TIMELEAP: Triangle Middle East
Legislative, Education and Advocacy Project.
Gazan journalist Laila al-Haddad currently lives in Durham.
In her January 30 post of "10 things YOU can do..." she
comments on "how little many people know about the conflict."
One of the main needs is to expand public knowledge of the
realities in the Holy Land.
Her blog "Raising Yousuf and Noor: Diary of a Palestinian Mother"
explores the complex relationships between the personal and
the political as she raises kids and negotiates the occupation.
Her list of meaningful actions to take to help bring all to the
conference table and to ameliorate the suffering is [1/30/09 entry] at
When conflict is preserved, the arms industry's lobbyists plus
a toxic mix of warmongers and fearmongers get to cherry-pick
the abuses that "prove" the need for more of their brand of violence,
raw power, missiles and death.
Our voices and actions are an essential part of a just outcome
for all.
WATCH FOR A MEDIA HANDOUT FROM BAJ'S COMMITTEE
FOR MEDIA IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST, FEATURING
TALKBACK OPPORTUNITIES, CONNECTIONS TO LOCAL /
NATIONAL MEDIA, LINKS TO KEY WEBSITES, AND RATINGS
OF LOCAL PUBLIC RADIO STATIONS. Electronic version
makes it easy to link to the websites.
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DVDs to share:
We will share copies of Adam Curtis's BBC documentary
"The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear"
...plus a recent Democracy Now! program featuring an exchange between
Hillary Clinton advisor and occupation supporter Martin Indyk, and
occupation opponent, professor Norman Finkelstein.
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Related links:
Jewish Voice for Peace set up a website to thank Jon Stewart:
On The Daily Show's January 5 "Strip Maul" segment, Jon Stewart
did what few American television personalities have dared to do:
he criticized Israel's campaign against Gaza, making it clear that
bombing will not bring peace for Israelis or Palestinians. He mocked
the one-sided response of U.S. politicians by calling the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict the "Mobius strip of issues because there's only one side!"
Israeli Coalition of Women for Peace:
Israeli activists need a powerful global movement to help us build
a just peace in Israel/ Palestine. Looking for effective tools for
ending the occupation, we have launched a new website
listing companies directly involved in the occupation of the
West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights.
The grassroots initiative, of the Israeli Coalition of Women for Peace,
includes a database and an information center, and reflects
an on-going two-year effort, rigorous research, documentation and site visits.
What You Don't Know About Gaza By RASHID KHALIDI
Rashid Khalidi, a professor of Arab studies at Columbia,
is the author of the forthcoming "Sowing Crisis: The Cold War
and American Dominance in the Middle East." Int'l Herald Trib.
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Come to Wednesday's meeting to identify the points that the
peace organizations agree on, and then contact various Washington
offices and local media to press for improvements such as:
A) an end to the blockade of Gaza, B) a longterm ceasefire
on terms that honor the needs of both sides, C) a requirement that
all parties come to the table and be included without preconditions
and D) an evenhanded and robust peace process after booting out
the negotiators and advisors who thwarted the process for so many years.
Contact info at
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Global view of the US role in armed conflicts, including the economically
self-destructive outcome. posted Feb 5, 2009:
The Empire v. The Graveyard -- Afghanistan,Where Empires Go to Die
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Seattle peace activist website Tikun Olam: Make the World
a Better Place [not connected with Tikkun mag and community]
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OTHER PERSPECTIVES
Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America:
CAMERA busies itself challenging such disreputable characters
as Jimmy Carter and Bishop Desmond Tutu.
Samson Blinded: A Machiavellian Perspective on the Middle East Conflict
Book urging the kind of "To succeed, Israeli violence against Arabs should
be immediately overwhelming. Israel should show itself a bloodthirsty
monster to scare the Arabs into submission in any war." [this is not satire]
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DIRECTIONS to
Community Church of Chapel Hill:
106 Purefoy Road, in Chapel Hill
FROM EITHER DIRECTION ON THE CHAPEL HILL BY-PASS:
take 15-501 [or 54] to the 15-501 Pittsboro exit
106 Purefoy Road, in Chapel Hill
FROM EITHER DIRECTION ON THE CHAPEL HILL BY-PASS:
take 15-501 [or 54] to the 15-501 Pittsboro exit
As you exit, TURN at the traffic light toward Chapel Hill.
In half a block, TURN RIGHT just short of the convenience store.
That's PUREFOY ROAD, and you take it almost a half mile,
passing side streets and curving left up the hill past speed bumps and
an extra stop sign,
passing side streets and curving left up the hill past speed bumps and
an extra stop sign,
until you can just see the stop sign at the end of the street.
Watch for a driveway on the left
with a white-painted curb and a tan colored sign for the church.
that driveway takes you to the parking lot and the Community Church.
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