Free Forum - Redefining the Occupation in Palestine

A conversation with
MARK TURNER
Founder & Director, Research Journalism Initiative
Human Rights Activist, Nablus, Palestine
NORA BARROWS-FRIEDMAN
Executive Producer & Co-host, Flashpoints, KPFA

As the U.S. corporate establishment media pretends not to notice the daily Israeli incursions, kidnappings, extra-judicial assassinations, torture, land theft, and economic subjugation inside the West Bank and Gaza strip, it is more important than ever to educate ourselves and our communities about the reality in which Palestinians are forced to live and to better understand the role that we play here in the States as taxpayers -- and as global citizens of conscience.

The Research Journalism Initiative is a cooperative education partnership between Najah University in the besieged West Bank city of Nablus and a growing number of High Schools in the United States. RJI's founder and director, Mark Turner, has just returned from another nine-month stay in Nablus. He will discuss the current and historical situation inside occupied Palestine.

Nora Barrows-Friedman is the Executive Producer and co-host of Flashpoints, a daily investigative newsmagazine on Pacifica Radio. Since 2004, she has been reporting regularly from the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip for Flashpoints and as a correspondent for Inter Press Service, a news agency based in Europe. Nora is on the board of directors of the Research Journalism Initiative. Her website is http://www.norabf.com/, and she can be heard daily on http://www.flashpoints.net/.

The program will be broadcast live on Mid-Peninsula Community Media cable Channel 27 and webcast at http://www.communitymediacenter.org, with rebroadcasts throughout February; visit http://www.PeaceandJustice.org for a schedule. As always, you are an important part of the conversation. Come with your questions and comments and be a part of the studio audience. Watching from home or on the internet? Phone in with your questions: (650) 856-1491.