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Release Date: 2/12/2010

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January 2010 News Items

Everyday Moments
In the midst of all the sad and bad news that draws the focus of our cameras, it is refreshing to look at the everyday moments that make up the fabric of our lives Carlos Pareja short video is about two minutes long and a patchwork of small moments i captured in and around Brooklyn, New York with his point & shoot in movie mod

The Cairo Declaration
New Year's Eve Candlight Vigil in Egypt's Tahrir Square

The Gaza Freedom March has come to an end. 1400 delegates from 43 countries traveled to Cairo Egypt in order to enter Gaza by the Rafah border crossing controlled by Egypt. Despite months of negotiating with the Egyptian Government and responding to all of its requests, as the Gaza Freedom Marchers were on their way to Cairo from around the world, the government announced that the border with Gaza was closed and no marchers would be allowed to enter Gaza. As the delegates gathered in Gaza, the Egyptian Government and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were building an "underground wall", metal plates driven 50 meters into the ground, to block the tunnels between Gaza and Egypt which are the main source of food, medicine and other supplies for the people of Gaza. The delegates of the Gaza Freedom March spent the week from December 27th to January 2nd attempting to persuade the government to allow them entry via Rafah. Every effort to protest and create public opinion was met with police blockade and force. Finally the government it would allow 100 people could enter. The offer was rejected as an effort to divide and vilify the delegation.

Haiti Community Radio Earthquake Emergency
Community Radio Stations in Haiti destroyed by Earthquake

U.S. Military Occupation of Haiti in Guise of Aid
As Haitians desperately await food and water, medical aid and help digging out from under the devastating destruction of the earthquake, the U.S. has put thousands of heavily armed soldiers on the ground, taken over the airport and turned back flights from other countries bringing in aid. "We don't need soldiers and guns" said a former Haitian Defense Minister.

Video Reports from Haiti
Deep Dish TV's blog Waves of Change features recent short videos by Ciné Institue from the town of Jacmel in the Southeast area of Haiti, not far from Port au Prince.

Stay up-to-date on Haiti with the Waves of Change Blog
The Waves of Change Blog is a terrific source of ongoing news about the crisis in Haiti, and the efforts of community activists to bring hope to this desperate station.


December 2009 News Items:

Egyptian Security Forces Detain Gaza Freedom Marchers in el-Arish and shut down Gaza Memorial in Cairo
Israel-Egypt-US tighten stranglehold on Palestinians in Gaza. Egypt refuses to allow medical supplies, food and International delegations from 46 countries to enter Gaza - the world's largest concentration camp


Egypt continues effort to block Palestinians in Gaza
Egyptian Government Tries to Block All Support For Palestinians in Gaza
Close to 1400 delegates to the Gaza Freedom March (GFM), people from 46 countries have arrived in Cairo intending to travel by bus to the Egyptian border crossing at Rafah to enter Gaza and join the Gaza Freedom March scheduled for January 31st. The March has been planned for four months and representatives of the GFM have been meeting with Egyptian officials for months to insure smooth passage. At the last minute Egypt refused permission to enter Gaza, forced the bus company that was to transport the participants, forbade them to meet in public in Cairo and denied access to a planned memorial on the Nile River. We just received the following from Cairo.

Gaza Freedom Marchers Reject Egyptian Offer to Let Just 100 Enter Gaza
After three days of vigils and demonstrations in downtown Cairo, Suzanne Mubarak’s offer to allow just 100 of 1,300 delegates to enter Gaza was rejected by the Gaza Freedom March Coordinating Committee as well as many of the larger contingents – including those from France, Scotland, Canada, South Africa, Sweden and New York State (U.S.).


Gaza Freedom Marchers Attacked by Egyptian Police
Participants of the Gaza Freedom March describe their efforts of the Egyptian government to prevent their expression of solidarity with the people of Gaza

Aid Convoy for Gaza blocked by Egyptian Government, Waits in Jordan
'Fighting to break the Gaza siege'

85 year old Holocaust Survivor Hedy Epstein Begins Hunger Strike to Open Gaza Borders
Hedy Epstein, the 85 year old Holocaust survivor and peace activist, announced that she will begin a hunger strike today as a response to the Egyptian government’s refusal to allow the Gaza Freedom March participants into Gaza.

Dennis Brutus, South African poet, freedom fighter 1924-1985
The memory of Dennis Brutus will remain everywhere there is struggle against injustice. Uniquely courageous, consistent and principled, Brutus bridged the global and local, politics and culture, class and race, the old and the young, the red and green. He was an emblem of solidarity with all those peoples oppressed and environments wrecked by the power of capital and state elites

Gaza Freedom March
Over 1000 people from the U.S., Europe, Latin America and Asia plan to join tens of thousands of Palestinians on historic Dec. 31st, 2009 March in Gaza

Rich Countries' Secret Deal on Global Warming
The Copenhagen climate change summit may be in peril as exposed document reveals scripted agreement between developed nations.

10 Years Later-The Impact of Shutting Down The WTO in Seattle
Reflections on the 'power of the people'

The Murder of Fred Hampton
Fred Hampton was the 21 year old, brilliant revolutionary Chairman of the Black Panther Party of Illinois. On December 4th, 1969 in the pre-dawn hours, Chicago Police raided the apartment where Hampton, his fiancee and other Party members were sleeping. Investigations proved that the FBI planned and orchestrated the raid,

November 2009 News Items:

Howard Zinn's "The People Speak" on the History Channel
December 13, 2009
8 PM Eastern and Pacific
7 PM Central
Produced by Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Chris Moore, Anthony Arnove, and Howard Zinn. Performances by: Brolin, Damon, Rosario Dawson, Bob Dylan, Michael Ealy, Lupe Fiasco, Morgan Freeman, Jasmine Guy, John Legend, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels, Sandra Oh, Viggo Mortensen, Bruce Springsteen, Marisa Tomei, Kerry Washington, and many others.

Digital Oral History From Durban South Africa

An Israeli Mother's Solidarity with Palestinian Women

Thanks-giving or Thanks-taking

Cal Student Occupation vs Tuition Hikes, Layoffs: Spark For a New Movment.

Civil Rights Attorney Lynne Stewart's Appeal Denied

Health Care Bill: Tragedy or Farce?

What You Didn't Know About the War

Friday November 20th! Great Deep Dish Screening!

Deep Dish TV Now on Facebook and Twitter!


October 2009 News Items:

Amnesty International Accuses Israel of Denying Water to Palestinians

Argentina Democratizes Media Law

Deep Dish TV Announces Release of DIY Media Series!

Iraq Government Closes Baghdad University

War in the Cities - G-20 in Pittsburgh

Women of Afghanistan Speak Out

Marek Edelman - Hero of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Dies


July 2009 News Items:

A Report From Gaza
I learned that there is no cease fire in Gaza. Israel continues its bombardment of Gaza and shooting its farmers and fishermen. - Felice Gelman, member of the Code Pink delegation to Gaza, May-June, 2009

Pakistan & Afghanistan: Battle Ground of Empire
An interview with David Barsamian, author and founder of Alternative Radio. Barsamian discusses the Taliban and the expansion of the U.S. war in Afghanistan to Pakistan in the context of Pashtun nationalism.

A Summer Not to Forget Wins Jury Award at Sole Luna Festival in Palermo Italy
Carol Mansour's film is part of Deep Dish TV series Nothing Is Safe - Israels 2006 War on Lebanon.

Israeli Soldiers Testify to War Crimes in Gaza Invasion
You feel like an infantile little kid with a magnifying glass looking at ants, burning them." Fifty-four testimonies of Israeli combat soldiers who participated in Operation Cast Lead reveal gaps between the reports given by the army following January’s events; the needless destruction of houses; firing phosphorous in populated areas and an atmosphere that encouraged shooting anywhere.

Honduras:Military Coup and the Fight for Land and Liberty
"A more likely motive for the coup lies in the Honduran oligarchy's fear of what would happen if the people got a chance to write their own Constitution."David Wilson, Monthly Review

Laughing all the Way to the Bank
The IMF was used to force neoliberalism - that poisonous cocktail of financial deregulation, free markets, privatisation and the rolling back of the state – on developing countries. IMF policies have been, despite the heartache, the wrecked lives, the savaging of countries' agriculture, education and institutions, granted legitimacy during this crisis.

The Women of Afghanistan
Part 5 of Brave New Films' Rethink Afghanistan exposes the reality of life for women in Afghanistan since the U.S. invasion.

This is Where We Take Our Stand
The Winter Soldier Project: New Online Film Series Documents GI Resistance


YES MEN Withdraw Their Film From Jerusalem Film Festival
Whatever words are applied to such actions, our film mustn't help lend an aura of normalcy to a state that makes these decisions. For us, that's the bottom line.

June 2009 New Items

For The Record: The World Tribunal on Iraq
Documents the organizing efforts that put the United States on trial for its illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq and the atrocities that have been committed in the name of "liberation."

US Colonel Advocates US 'Military Attacks' on 'Partisan Media'
Calls the independent media "the killers without guns"

May 2009 News Items

City of West Hollywood CA Takes Anti-Torture Stand
"If any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any prisoner, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring such exemplary and severe punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it would not be disproportionate to his guilt at such a time and in such a cause, for by such conduct they bring upon us shame, disgrace, and ruin to themselves and to our country."- George Washington