What: Interview with Paul Larudee about the FREE GAZA MOVEMENT
When: Friday, March 28, 2008
Time: 9:00AM
Where: KBOO 90.7FM on your radio dial
Dear friends of One Land, Many Voices,
Please tune in this
Friday morning from 9:00AM to 10AM to KBOO Community Radio for a
special edition of ONE LAND, MANY VOICES. We’ll have special guest,
Paul Larudee, talking about the FREE GAZA MOVEMENT (Paul is also
speaking at Reed College Friday evening) AND we’ll have special
guest-host, Sa’ed Bannoura, joining William Seaman for this membership
drive broadcast. (Hala is traveling abroad but will be back next
month!). Sa’ed is a Palestinian journalist who has reported for the
International Middle East Media Center and for Free Speech Radio News.
(Details on Paul Larudee are appended below).
If you want to
support public affairs programming dedicated to reporting on Palestine,
PLEASE tune in this Friday at 9:00AM … tune in AND renew your
membership in grassroots, democratic, community radio, KBOO 90.7FM in
Portland, 100.7 FM in Corvallis, and 91.9 FM in the Columbia Gorge!
Thanks, everybody
!
– Will
Paul Larudee, Ph.D.
Human Rights Activist for Peace and Justice in Palestine (Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem)
Dr. Paul Larudee is a San Francisco Bay Area activist on the issue
of justice in the region known as Palestine, which includes Israel, the
West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem. He was born to an Iranian
Presbyterian minister and his American missionary spouse in 1946 and
grew up in the American Midwest. He has a Ph.D. in linguistics from
Georgetown University and spent 14 years in Arab countries as a
contracted U.S. government advisor, Fulbright-Hays exchange lecturer,
teacher, training administrator and graduate student.
Paul has visited the Palestinian region ten times since 1965,
including four times with the International Solidarity Movement, a
Palestinian-led movement that applies nonviolent principles to resist
the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. Paul was among seven ISM
volunteers wounded by Israeli gunfire in April, 2002 in an otherwise
nonviolent attempt to help Palestinian families. In 2006, he was held
in Israeli detention for two weeks while appealing a decision to deny
him entry, then expelled from the country. He was in Lebanon during the
2006 Israeli invasion. He is one of the founders of the Free Gaza
Movement, which seeks to break the siege of Gaza through seaborne
nonviolent action. His publications can be found by searching on his
name and at his weblog, www.hurriyya.blogspot.com.
Paul is a compelling storyteller of personal experiences and speaks
of justice and equitable solutions for all persons who consider their
home to be in Palestine, without discrimination on the basis of race,
religion or ethnicity.
He offers new perspectives and provides insight into the way the
parties themselves view the conflict. He challenges established
viewpoints and misunderstandings, and offers innovative ideas for
making progress toward resolution.