this email comes from human rights activist and cafe intifada advisory board member, sam bahour, who lives in el bireh, palestine. (i highly recommend getting on sam's list. )
the pictures in the link below are disturbing contrast to the propaganda we have been receiving here in the u.s. on the "democratic" process in occupied iraq. the film sam refers to, peace, propaganda and the promised land, will be coming to southern california at future cafe intifada events. peace with justice, -emma -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [epalestine] THE CHILDREN OF IRAQ / QUOTE of the Day / Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land / New NION Ad Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 23:48:34 +0200 From: Sam Bahour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] THE CHILDREN OF IRAQ *** THE FOLLOWING SITE IS NOT FOR CHILDREN *** http://www.zonaeuropa.com/01467.htm Thank you mr. Bush for bringing democracy to the Middle East...I'm sure all Americans feel safer now. Can anyone even begin to imagine how the next generation of Iraqi's, those seen in these pictures, will develop! Where in the hell is the media (see Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land below)! ---------------------------------------- QUOTE of the Day >From New York Times, 1967 "United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting. According to reports from Saigon, 83 percent of the 5.85 million registered voters cast their ballots yesterday. Many of them risked reprisals threatened by the Vietcong. A successful election has long been seen as the keystone in President Johnson's policy of encouraging the growth of constitutional processes in South Vietnam." - Peter Grose, in a page 2 New York Times article titled, 'U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote,' <http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nytimes/82602711.html?did=82602711&FMT=ABS&FMTS=AI&date=Sep+4,+1967&author=By+PETER+GROSE+Special+to+The+New+York+Times&desc=U.S.+ENCOURAGED+BY+VIETNAM+VOTE> September 4, 1967. ---------------------------------------- Now Available on DVD Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2004) Click here to view clip: Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land <http://www.mediaed.org/videos/MediaRaceAndRepresentation/PeacePropaganda/#> Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This pivotal documentary exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites--oil, and a need to have a secure military base in the region, among others--work in combination with Israeli public relations strategies to exercise a powerful influence over how news from the region is reported. ---------------------------------------- Not In Our Name STATEMENTS OF CONSCIENCE AGAINST WAR AND REPRESSION "No election, whether fair or fraudulent, can legitimize criminal wars on foreign countries, torture, the wholesale violation of human rights, and the end of science and reason." --from the new Not In Our Name statement The new Not in Our Name statement of conscience, opposing the domestic and international agenda of the Bush government, is signed by 11,000 people and appeared in the Times on Sunday, January 23, and in the San Francisco Chronicle on Thursday, February 3. 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