My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story
A promotional short film for a new book on Gaza is being released worldwide today, days before the official book launch in the U.K., to commemorate the first anniversary of the Gaza massacre.
A promotional short film for a new book on Gaza is being released worldwide today, days before the official book launch in the U.K., to commemorate the first anniversary of the Gaza massacre.
There are very few movies or documentaries that show just how severe life is for civilians in Burma. It is only fitting that a group of committed local Burmese reporters from the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) fill this void by capturing the footage of the 2007 uprising led by monks, otherwise known as the Saffron Revolution.
Yesterday, as part of its “Accountability for Torture” project (to which I contributed here), the ACLU launched a new campaigning video, “Tortured Logic,” in which ten people (including Oliver Stone, Philip Glass and a relative of one of the 9/11 victims) read out passages from the notorious torture memos, issued by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), which were released by the Obama administration in May.
In the wet season of 2008, David Calleja presented A Garbage Diet. This provided an insight into Steung Meanchey, home to hundreds of residents living on a rubbish dump on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. For his second visit in January 2009 during the dry season, David joins members of the recently formed NGO named CHOICE, speaks with children and captures images of the site marked for closure, leaving residents facing an uncertain future.
WUST 1120 AM broadcast from Washington DC featuring interview with filmmaker Chris Flaherty and journalist David Calleja of Foreign Policy Journal. They discuss Flaherty’s upcoming documentary film, “Migration of Beauty”, and the current political situation in Ethiopia.
WUST 1120 AM broadcast from Washington DC featuring interview with filmmaker Chris Flaherty and journalist David Calleja of Foreign Policy Journal. They discuss Flaherty’s upcoming documentary film, “Migration of Beauty”, and the current political situation in Ethiopia.
WUST 1120 AM broadcast from Washington DC featuring interview with filmmaker Chris Flaherty and journalist David Calleja of Foreign Policy Journal. They discuss Flaherty’s upcoming documentary film, “Migration of Beauty”, and the current political situation in Ethiopia.
A former US national security adviser has told Al Jazeera that US intelligence agents are working in Iran.
Civilians are counting the cost of the 3 week conflict in January 2009, which claimed more than a thousand lives and dealt a heavy blow to the economy of Gaza, a territory already shattered by decades of conflict and deprivation.
Meet young Master Kawn Wan, whose parents were murdered by the SPDC Burmese government army. Now, he lives on the Shan State Army base, teaching Lai Tai Kung Fu to the war orphans in the hopes of preserving the Shan culture.