A Call to Radio Stations Everywhere to Stand Together on May 15th in Support of Palestinian Rights

April 24, 2008 23:32 by CKUT Radio - 1 of International Middle East Media Center - IMEMC Editorial Group

Radio Free Palestine
18-hours of broadcasting on May 15th
Calling all community radio broadcasters:

You are invited to join an international collaboration and historic radio opportunity. We would like to confirm your station's participation on Thursday, May 15th. This important broadcast will be available in some pre-recorded segments, as a live stream from Midnight until 6pm on the 15th, and as a broadcast quality archive afterwards. Will you be airing any portion of this audio on May 15th or at any later date?

Please let us know if we can confirm you station as a re-broadcaster of any portion.

...RADIO FREE PALESTINE...
18 HOURS OF BROADCASTING ON
60 YEARS OF DISPOSSESSION

Poster: http://humanrightsmedia.org/posters/nakba.pdf

THURSDAY, MAY 15th, from Midnight until 6pm (EST) - Join us for this historic international radio reflection of the Palestinian Nakba or catastrophe. Content will be hosted by the International Middle East Media Center in Bethlehem (Palestine), in collaboration with CKUT 90.3fm in Montreal (Quebec, Canada), CHRY 105.5fm in Toronto (Ontario, Canada), and KBOO 90.7fm in Portland (Oregon, USA). Including contributions from Pacifica Radio and Democracy Now!

Tune-in and remember!

Info? www.imemc.org

Join Pacifica Radio stations, Democracy Now, Campus-Community radio stations across North America, and the International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC) for a special day-long broadcast on this important anniversary.

Thursday, May 15th, 2008, commemorates 60 years of the Palestinian Nakba. In 1948 eighty-five percent of the Palestinians living in the areas that became the state of Israel became refugees. More than 500 Palestinian villages were depopulated and later destroyed to prevent the return of the refugees. Today there are a total of 7 million Palestinian refugees, dispersed throughout the world - the largest and longest running refugee problem yet unresolved.

60-years later, Israel continues to occupy and colonize Palestinian land through the construction of Jewish only settlements and the Wall in the West Bank. The Gaza Strip has been turned into one large prison. Israel violates international law and commits ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity. And Palestinians abroad are the world's oldest refugee population, making-up more than one fourth of all refugees.

On Thursday, May 15th, we will broadcast throughout the day on these and many other topics. Beginning in Bethlehem live from the IMEMC, then moving to New York City with Democracy Now, plus contributions from stations across Canada and the US.

Station Participation

The content of the entire broadcast will be made available on the internet in broadcast quality format. Any participating station may contribute content to the broadcast by submitting a pre-recorded segment or joining with a live contribution. Stations may choose to air some or all of the live feed as well as broadcast any portion afterwards from the archive. Pre-recorded material will be available to download by May 12th.

These details will be further updated and include a complete schedule.

To submit audio, email news@ckut.ca.

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