---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 17:46:53 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [AL-AWDA] Fwd: manufacturing an image I received this message from a friend in Canada. She sympathizes with the fear and apprehension Arab-Americans (and Muslims) are experiencing after the WTC disaster. She has forwarded this message, which contains an attachment claiming the images of Palestinians celebrating was actually shot in 1991. Does anyone have information, can anyone verify the information below, or know how to get a copy of this footage? If it is true, then CNN and other networks who played it over and over again must be addressed, held responsible, and made to apologize for inciting hatred and discrimination based on false reports. Please, please respond if you have any information about this, and, if it turns out to be true, let's decide on a course of action. For now, we must investigate this and determine the accuracy of the claim below. If anyone has suggestions on how we might investigate this, please discuss. Email me privately if you prefer; or call me at 718-721-7242. Afaf ============================================================ ================================================================= http://al-awda.org To sign Al-Awda's petition to terminate US aid to Israel go to: http://al-awda.org/terminate_aid_petition.htm To sign a letter asking Intel Corporation to disinvest from Israel go to: http://al-awda.org/campaign/intel_letter.htm ================================================================= Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition is the largest network of grassroots activists dedicated to Palestinian human rights. Al-Awda develops, coordinates, supports and guides as needed global and local grassroots initiatives for action related to Palestinian refugee rights. Unless indicated otherwise, all statements posted represent the views of their authors and not necessarily those of Al-Awda or this list's management who may be reached anytime at [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To find out how to join an Al-Awda action committees in your area, please visit our website at http://al-awda.org. ================================================================= Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Thanks for your reply. We will be together in person again, one day! I think this message is very important! Love, Terry > >-----Original Message----- >From: Stephen Seaborn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: September 13, 2001 19:08 >To: dcto >Cc: intl solidarity >Subject: manufacturing an image >: http://www.indymedia.org Article:CNN USING 1991 FOOTAGE of celebrating Palistinians to >manipulate >by Marcio 9:10am Thu Sep 13 '01 >address: State University of Campinas - Brazil All around the world we are subjected to 3 or 4 huge news distributors, and one of them - as you well know - is CNN. Very well, I guess all of you have been seeing (just as I\'ve been) images from this company >I'd like to add some ideas from here, down south. >There's an important point in the power of press, specifically the power of >CNN. > > All around the world we are subjected to 3 or 4 huge >news distributors, > and one of them - as you well know - is CNN. Very well, >I guess all of > you have been seeing (just as I\'ve been) images from >this company. In > particular, one set of images called my attencion: the >Palestinians > celebrating the bombing, out on the streets, eating some >cake and making > funny faces for the camera. > > Well, THOSE IMAGES WERE SHOT BACK IN 1991!!! Those are > images of Palestinians celebrating the invasion of >Kuwait! It\'s simply > unacceptable that a super-power of cumminications as CNN >uses images > which do not correspond to the reality in talking about >so serious an > issue. > > A teacher of mine, here in Brazil, has videotapes >recorded in 1991, with > the very same images; he\'s been sending emails to CNN, >Globo (the > major TV network in Brazil) and newspapers, denouncing >what I myself > classify > as a crime against the public opinion. If anyone of you >has access to this > kind of files, serch for it. In the meanwhile, I\'ll try >to \'put my hands\' on a > copy of this tape. > > But now, think for a moment about the impact of such >images. Your > people is hurt, emotionally fragile, and this kind >broadcast have very high > possibility of causing waves of anger and rage against >Palestinians. > It\'s simply irresponsible to show images such as those. > > Finally, I\'d like to say that we all regret and condemn >all that has > happened in the last days; but Nikos has a point here. I >really don\'t want > to be misunderstood here, but the truth is that US >government had > shown no respect for other countries in the last >decades. In the 60s and > 70s they had halped lots of military coups throughout >the world (including > Brazil in 64). Later, with Reagan and Bush Father, the >Washington > Consensus have been demolishing the bases of our >economies, making us > more and more dependant (and, many of us, prehocupied >with this > situation). > > Your current president quickly made things worse: Kioto >Protocol, Star > Wars, Colombia Plan, the exchange of rain forest for >pieces of external > debt, tha abandonment of the position of third party in >negotiations > between IRA and England, and between Palestinians and >Israel. All those > mistakes in US external politics made your country more >hatred than > before, and, of course, more vulnerable. > > Listen, I'm NOT justifying the terrorist actions that >took place in your > country; but it seems to me that, if your leaders had >come along another > path of thoughts and actions, you wouldn\'t be suffering >what you are now. > > Best regards, and the hope that everything is resolved >for the best of all of us. > M�rcio A. V. Carvalho > State University of Campinas - Brazil
