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Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments:
Targeting Doctors in Gaza: Breaking the Silence: Patricia Kullberg speaks with Dr. Travis Meleen, Portland anesthesiologist and two time medical volunteer in Gaza. They discuss what a genocidal war looks like on the ground, the charge against Israel of medicide in Gaza, which includes wholesale and intentional destruction of health care infrastructure and detention, torturing and murdering of health care workers. They describe the Palestine exception in health care, that is the silence of US medical institutions and organizations about the horrors inflicted on their colleagues in Gaza. Dr. Meleen will be the featured speaker at:
“Targeting Doctors in Gaza: Breaking the Silence”
First Unitarian Church: Eliot Chapel
1011 SW 12th
October 30, 7-9 PM, doors at 6:30
$5-20 suggested donation at the door; no one turned away for lack of funds
Vigil for Murdered Palestinian Health Care Workers led by Reverend Alex Awad
“SUMUD: A Doctor’s Report on Genocide and Survival in Gaza”, a short film by Jan Haaken
Remarks by Dr. Travis Meleen
Hosted by Nadia Hasan, Beaverton City Councilor
For more see: https://www.facebook.com/events/779630034892465
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: Our Well Read Red, Patricia Kullberg, reads passages from the National Book Award nominated book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, by local author Omar El Akkad. The book is about Palestine and two years of genocidal war in Gaza. But what El Akkad is really writing about is the profound moral failure of Western liberalism and its complicity with the commission of unconscionable crimes in service to empire. El Akkad is also featured in the film SUMUD: A Doctor’s Report on Genocide and Survival in Gaza.
Ceasefire in Gaza: With the ceasefire agreement in the Trump 20-point plan underway and Hamas's return of hostages and the release of close to 2000 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, displays of joy and tenuous hope abound. For the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank, however, all the fundamental problems remain. And conditions on the ground are more brutal than two years ago. Jan Haaken speaks with David Finkel, an editor of Against the Current and a Middle Eastern scholar, about how this ceasefire differs from earlier ceasefires in Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza, how to understand the US and geopolitical implications of this "peace plan," and how the Global Palestine movement must continue to take actions and mobilize.